Chili Pepper News — Chili Peppers

Every month is a good month for chili peppers. We know it. You know it. But, November is an especially good month for chilies this year. Well, chilies, hot sauces, pepper purees, you name it. November is, after all, National Pepper Month. And, we’re going to take that as chili pepper. Why shouldn’t we? Chili peppers are a lot more useful than the spice you throw onto eggs. Adding chili peppers and hot sauces transforms just about any dish from blasé to blazingly impressive with very little effort on your part.

Chili peppers are impressive. We’re not saying that because we grow them, nor because we transform them into the world’s hottest hot sauces. We’re not even saying that because we like them so damn much.

If you’re a chili head, you may find it difficult to believe that there are homes that don’t keep a variety of fresh chili peppers alongside a small gallery of hot sauces in the fridge. We also find it difficult to believe. You know, we have pastes, dried peppers, extracts, chili oils, and more next to our fresh chilies and hot sauces. But maybe we take it to the extreme. Maybe. Still, our day-in and day-out exposure to chili peppers mean we’ve seen too many people handling them badly. (Perhaps it’s actually all the food videos posted on Facebook throughout the...

Seriously. Google returns well over a million results for “chili pepper burn” as if it’s a totally normal phenomenon. Of course, Google gives a lot of options for even the most inane questions, so it’s not as if we can use the search engine as any sort of proof. But, a lot of people have tried a lot of solutions to relieve the pain that comes with eating chili peppers and the capsaicin found inside.