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The Fatalii Pepper Planting Guide
When to start fatalii pepper seeds, when to plant them out, how to grow them in a pot, and whether they'll ripen where you live, with a zip code planner built on NOAA frost data.
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The Hinkelhatz Pepper Planting Guide
When to start Hinkelhatz pepper seeds, when to plant them out, how to grow them in a pot and bring them in for the winter, and whether they'll ripen where you live.
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The Goat Pepper Planting Guide
When to start goat pepper seeds, when to plant them out, and whether they'll ripen where you live, with a zip code planner built on NOAA frost data.
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Which Countries Have The Spiciest Food?
Which countries have the spiciest food, ranked with real data: how much dried chili people eat, how often recipes call for chilies, and how hot each cuisine's go-to chilies are.
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Pasilla de Oaxaca Vs. Pasilla: How Do They Compare?
They share a name and a dark, wrinkled look, so it’s easy to assume the pasilla de Oaxaca is just a fancier version of the everyday pasilla. It isn’t. Both bring an earthy, dried-fruit sweetness, but the Oaxacan one’s smoked over a wood fire for ... Read more
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What’s A Good Pasilla de Oaxaca Substitute?
The pasilla de Oaxaca is a hard chili to replace. It’s smoked over a wood fire for days, so it brings deep smoke, a dark dried-fruit sweetness, and real heat all at once, somewhere around 15,000 to 20,000 SHU. It’s also grown only in Oaxaca’s ... Read more
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Pasilla de Oaxaca: Heat, Flavor, Ingredient Pairings
The pasilla de Oaxaca is a smoked chili pepper from one small corner of Mexico: the Sierra Mixe, in the mountains of northeastern Oaxaca, and nowhere else. It shares a name with the everyday pasilla, but in the kitchen they’re not the same thing. The ... Read more
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7 Spicy Launches That Defined 2026 (So Far) — and Which Ones Are Worth It
If there’s a single word that sums up the year in heat, it isn’t “hottest.” It’s “swicy.” Sweet-and-spicy has gone from a niche flavor note to the thing every major brand is chasing, and the biggest launches of 2026 have leaned into flavor, fruit, and ... Read more
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Datil Pepper Substitutes: What To Use Instead
The datil has a specific problem: almost nobody can buy one fresh. It grows in and around St. Augustine, Florida, in small batches, for local families and local restaurants, and it barely leaves. So if a recipe calls for fresh datil peppers and you don’t ... Read more
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Bourbon-Barrel Heat: 6 Barrel-Aged Hot Sauces Worth Hunting Down
There’s a certain kind of hot sauce fan who stopped chasing the Scoville leaderboard a while ago. They still love heat, but what pulls them across the room now is flavor: smoke, oak, a little sweetness, the sense that someone let the sauce sit and ... Read more