Chili Pepper News

The Carolina Reaper pepper is proof that sometimes leaving it up to nature alone isn’t enough. This pepper crossbreed is a former record holder when it comes to the world’s hottest chili pepper. While it took home the honor several years ago, the Reaper is still seriously hot. First bred in a greenhouse in South Carolina, the average Carolina Reaper far surpasses 1 million SHU, but it has the ability to top more than 2 million SHU. It’s a cross between the ghost pepper and a red habanero pepper; two extremely hot contenders in their own right.

If you’re looking to add a little zip to your next meal, there’s nothing quite like hot sauce. From milder hot sauce to earth scorching super hot flavors, there’s something for just about everyone. Just like a fine wine, though, some foods taste better with certain flavors. The key to finding the right match may be up to your own individual taste. If you’re not quite sure, there’s plenty of time to start on the tamer end of the scale and work your way up. Still, though, there are certainly some tried and true favorites of hot sauce enthusiasts who’ve...

It may not be the hottest pepper in the world anymore, but you certainly don’t want to underestimate the habanero! This very hot pepper still packs quite a punch. Ranked the world’s hottest pepper by Guinness in the late 1990s, the habanero has been surpassed by a number of super-hot peppers over the years. Even so, it’s at least 70 times hotter than the average jalapeno, with some measuring even hotter than that.

Years ago, many restaurants were known to stock dining tables with only the essentials. No longer, though, are customers only interested in grabbing up traditional mustard, ketchup, salt and pepper to flavor a meal. These days, people are looking for real variety, and hot sauce makers are definitely answering the charge. While the closest thing to added spice used to be a bottle of Tabasco sauce, more and more restaurants are beginning to add some newer and more unique options to the tabletop.