Hot peppers - The Hot Pepper. Hot peppers - Canadian pepper grower! - Welcome! - The Hot Pepper. Hot peppers - Types of hot peppers. Do you want to add a little kick to your meal? Hot peppers are terrific way to spice up any dish. They come in all shapes, sizes and colors but many people don't know how hot each type of pepper is. You don't want to add peppers when cooking unless you know their hotness level or you could end up with an inedible meal. Here's a guide to the different types of popular peppers. Types of peppers Invented by Wilbur Scoville, the Scoville Heat Index ranks peppers in order from mildest to hottest. It starts with zero being the mildest and goes over 1,000,000 to indicate the hottest peppers. Bell pepper Bell Peppers, which can be red, yellow, green or orange, aren't hot peppers.
Get the recipe for chickpea-stuffed bell peppers >> Cherry pepper Also known as pimento peppers, cherry peppers are heart-shaped and are about four inches long and three inches wide. Anaheim pepper Another mild type of pepper is the Anaheim pepper. Try this roasted tomato and Anaheim pepper salsa >> Jalapeño pepper. Hot peppers - Pepper Varieties & Species - the many different kinds of hot peppers!
Hot peppers - Hot Peppers - Mexican Peppers - Chile Pepper Pictures. There are many varieties of chiles that you'll find in grocery stores all over Arizona and the Southwest. Chiles are used often in Mexican cooking, and add a great deal of flavor, and sometimes heat, to the concoction. A gentleman named Wilbur Scoville developed a heat index for chiles, which is the industry standard for measuring a pepper's pain to your palette. For instance, green bell peppers have a value of zero Scoville units, whereas habaneros are rated as between 200,000 and 300,000.
Here I'll give you some information about some common chiles you'll come across, and show you a picture, so you can recognize the chile you want for your recipe. Let's begin. First up is the jalapeño. It is pronounced: hah lah pain yo. Jalapeños are sold canned, sliced, and pickled. A chipotle (pronounced: chi poat lay) is a jalapeño that has been smoked. **chileman.org.