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January
11
2023

Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Peppers of Key West Pepper Mobile

Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Peppers of Key West Pepper Mobile  Vroom Vroom... The Chile Pepper Car! Did you know that sitting outside of Peppers of Key West Hot Sauce Shoppe is an actual car shaped like a Chile Pepper? About Peppers of Key West: Peppers of Key West is the best hot sauce store [..]
January
11
2023

Chile Pepper Fun Fact - The Chile Pepper Institute

Chile Pepper Fun Fact - The Chile Pepper Institute    Did you know there is an actual IRL Chile Pepper Institute? The Chile Pepper Institute is the only international, non-profit organization devoted to education and research related to Capsicum, or chile peppers. Established in 1 [..]
January
11
2023

Hot Sauce Fun Fact - Chile Oil

Hot Sauce Fun Fact - Chile Oil  Hot Sauce or Hot Condiment? What say you about Chile Oil?  Made from vegetable oil infused with chile peppers, chile oil is a staple of several East Asian cuisines, but especially Sichuan. It's typically made by adding dried red chiles (such as tsin tsin [..]
January
11
2023

Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Cayenne Pepper can Help Stop Bleeding

Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Cayenne Pepper can Help Stop Bleeding Cayenne pepper can be used for first aid... Drop the band-aids and run to the kitchen: A popular natural remedy, when applied topically, cayenne pepper can help stop bleeding. The cayenne can either be sprinkled on the injury directly [..]
January
11
2023

Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Grains of Capsicum Dating Back 6,000 Years

Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Grains of Capsicum Dating Back 6,000 Years In South America, researchers have identified starch grains of Capsicum on milling stones and cooking pots recovered from house floors in southwestern Ecuador dating them to around 6,000 years ago. These microfossil [..]
January
11
2023

Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Capsaicin Oil

Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Capsaicin Oil But I only want to love you... Capsaicin, the component in chile peppers that produces the heat sensation, is created by the pepper plant to stop animals from eating its fruit. It does not affect birds, which spread the plant's seeds. But this defense m [..]
January
11
2023

Hot Sauce Fun Fact - Capsaicin Heat

Hot Sauce Fun Fact - Capsaicin Heat   What Makes Hot Sauce Hot? The chemical that gives peppers their distinctive spicy flavor is called capsaicin. Sources believe that nature intended capsaicin to deter many animals from eating peppers, but the chemical has had the opposite effect&hell [..]
January
11
2023

Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Calabrian Chile Peppers

Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Calabrian Chile Peppers  A Chile Pepper with an Italian flare... Mamma mia!! Calabrian chiles are a category of chile peppers grown in the Italian region of Calabria, located at the toe of the boot. Enclosed by three separate mountain ranges and situated between the [..]
January
11
2023

Hot Sauce Fun Fact - CaJohns Frostbite Hot Sauce

Hot Sauce Fun Fact - CaJohns Frostbite Hot Sauce  Clearly it's Hot Sauce... Clearly  There are many clear hot sauces on the market, one of the more popular and multi-use options is CaJohns Frostbite. So, Frostbite clear hot sauce can be used wherever you do not want it detected. Ever h [..]
January
11
2023

Hot Sauce Fun Fact - Bumblefoot's Hot Sauce

Hot Sauce Fun Fact - Bumblefoot's Hot Sauce  Rocker Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal on his line of Hot Sauces in his words: It was 1981, at a family get-together in Brooklyn. I was 12 years old; my older cousin Steve dared me $5 to eat a hot cherry pepper - that was my earliest memory of 'the rush' y [..]