Hot sauce is a delicious food seasoning, highly sought-after in many cultures. It is also the source of worldwide competitions initiated by heat fanatics that seek the ultimate hot tasting experience. Still, hot sauce ingredients require a lot of consideration. All that you need is vinegar, water, the pepper source, optional natural thickener, and spices. What we find instead is that several … Read More
6 Sensational Gluten-Free Barbecue Sauces
While grilling season might be getting close to over, that should have little effect on our carnivorous counterparts, who cook up delicious meat all fall and winter long. Their biggest hurdle isn’t the elements, however; it’s finding a great, gluten-free BBQ blend that won’t have people running for the A1 sauce. Here’s a list of our 10 favorite Celiac-friendly sauces to … Read More
Mild to Wild Pepper and Herb Company: What is the Scoville Chart?
Depending on how brave someone is, most people prefer to have a general idea of how spicy a pepper (or any food) is before they bite into it. To avoid a nasty surprise, or to choose peppers to test your mettle, you can check out the Scoville Chart before tasting hot peppers.
Order to the Spice: How Scoville Units Work, with Examples
Most chiliheads have heard of the Scoville scale, but not many know how it actually works. You may have heard that the Scoville unit refers to the amount of glasses of water needed to dilute the heat-producing chemicals past the point of human detection, but this description is imprecise.
How to Remove the Excess Spice When Cooking With Hot Sauce
When it comes to cooking with spice, there are a lot of ways things can go horribly amiss. However, the most common problem when cooking with everything from chilies to hot sauce is that the spice can be a bit overwhelming if you are not careful. While serious spice junkies can power through it, do you need to just toss … Read More
Unlocked Pepper Genome Paves the Way for Even Hotter Peppers
While less newsworthy than say, cracking the human genome, the genome of the pepper plant has been cracked and scientists have been able to sort out what specific genes are responsible for a pepper plant’s spiciness. By discovering it, this paves the way for pepper growers everywhere to engineer even hotter hot peppers.
The Science Behind the Scoville Chart
To chiliheads, the Scoville heat units (SHUs) that measure the heat intensity of peppers are considered badges of honor. Pepper growers are constantly developing new varieties of peppers that ratchet up the heat to a level where they could almost be considered deadly weapons. There are also the heat seekers who are willing to push the boundaries of human endurance by … Read More
Habanero Barbecue Sauce: A Smart Addition to Hearty American’s Meals
Its Scoville heat units vary but rest assured. If you pick a peck of habanero peppers for a special meal, you’ll likely experience an SHU of 1,042,000 or less. And that may be a little too intense for timid pepper eaters. But if you’re one of the hearty types that love the burn, it may remind you of Shangri-La on … Read More
The Hottest Peppers Known to Man
Spicy food isn’t for everyone. What makes food spicy is either the spices used or the peppers that are used. There are mild peppers such as green peppers and red peppers. There are also hotter peppers such as jalapeno peppers. But, what are the hottest peppers that few people can withstand?
Growing Peppers? Grow These 5 Helpful Herbs Too!
Companion planting is the practice of planting different, complementary plants together so that one or all benefit. When growing peppers, here are five herbs you should also consider planting:
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