Chili Pepper News — ghost peppers

It’s not as if Americans hold the rights to the heat-inducing condiments market. We don’t. Even though we’ve got some serious hot sauce talent here, and aisles and aisles of sauces in every grocery store to prove it… we still can’t take all the credit. Sriracha, for example, isn’t an American creation. We need to look east for the roots of this garlicky goodness in a bottle. Harissa comes from North Africa (they claim it as their own in Tunisia where they spread this paste on damn near everything they put in their mouths).

These days it seems like every time you turn around, there is a new hottest chili pepper out there in the world. And, it may even seem a little silly sometimes, right? After all, when there are peppers that rank over 2 million Scoville Heat Units, it’s certain that you’ll have a difficult time-consuming a tiny bite of just one pepper. Bhut Jolokia is one of those ridiculously hot chili peppers, and if you want to know about Bhut Jolokia hot sauce, then you’ve got to start with the chili pepper itself.