Chili Pepper News — seeds

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...

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.