Chili Pepper News

Ever tried to help someone in their kitchen? You reach into the cupboard to find the soy sauce and you can’t. “Are you out of soy sauce? Where do you keep it?” Then the exasperated reply comes, “it’s in the fridge.” You can hear terrible descriptives regarding your kitchen abilities even though they’ve not actually been said.

Taco Bell recently released new, hotter menu items. Their Daredevil Loaded Grillers are topping the heat index – especially the Ghost Pepper offering. And, if you’ve pulled into any fast food restaurant over the past couple of years, you’ll know Taco Bell isn’t alone in their move towards spicier fast food fire flavor explosion. Ghost pepper fries and (supposedly) super spicy chicken sandwiches continue to appear on menus across the country.

We don’t grow every type of chili found under the sun. For a start, we don’t have the room. And secondly, we know where to get some good chilies to support local businesses. But there are chilies that are just too important to our Mad Dog sauces that we need to produce ourselves. At the moment, we’ve got:

There are plenty of foods that double as brilliant cleaning agents. Lemon juice is one of the dual-purpose foods. Vinegar is another. (Mix them together and you have the cleaner used to shine many a stainless steel diner in the last century.) Baking soda is another one of those miracle workers.