Chili Pepper News — chili pepper

There are people that can’t go without a drop or two of hot sauce on their eggs. They’ll use whatever is on the table. It doesn’t need to be that hot as long as the peppery, vinegary flavor works itself to the fore. Then there are those that call themselves chili heads. These are the people that scoff at whatever bottle of hot sauce happens to be on the table. No, that’s not completely accurate. It’s that they would need to use the entire bottle of that 4000 Scoville hot sauce to make some sort of a difference to their day.

You’ve probably seen it time and again. Recipes that call for fresh chilies usually direct you to remove the seeds. Why? For some reason, a lot of people are under the impression that a chili’s heat derives from its seeds. It’s hogwash. But, there seem to be a lot of these individuals. Many of them are chefs (or, at least, their cookbook recipe writers). This level of deception continues to mislead the home cook.

We’re sort of in love with chili peppers and hot sauces. You are too. We know because you’re reading this, and there must be a reason for that. But, we can’t help but ask ourselves what the fascination with hot sauce and chili peppers really is. After all, it seems that you can’t step into an establishment that has anything to do with food without falling over capsaicin.