Blog — Carolina Reaper

With the right techniques and conditions, you can cultivate fiery peppers right in your backyard and you will always have fresh chilies ready to add to your favorite recipes.

For thousands of years, people in the world have used chili peppers to flavor their food in some way or another. While some peppers are mild, others are spicy hot. It wasn’t until a little over a century ago, that we had a way to rank and measure the hottest peppers in the world on a single scale.

There are thousands of hot peppers in the world, but how do you know which pepper is right for you? You can’t typically just look at a pepper and know how hot it is. . You can try slicing it open and using your sense of smell. Of course, there’s probably a better way.

If you love peppers, you may also know, at least a little, about the Scoville Scale. Essentially, that’s the scale that gives a ranking to hot peppers, from top to bottom. While some peppers are extremely hot, others don’t even make much of a showing at all on the list.