@joyrobinson's Weekly Series: How Hot Is The Chili Pepper?
Welcome to another Steem Kitchen weekly series by @joyrobinson!
Are you a spicy food lover? Today I'm going to showcase different types of chilli peppers and the level of their spiciness by using Scoville index.
Scoville Index is invented by Wilbur Scoville to measure the heat index ranks of peppers from the mildest to hottest. The measuring start from 0 which is the mildest and goes over to 1,000,000 ( the hottest peppers.)
Types Of Chili Peppers
Bell pepper
The most popular pepper and also known as sweet peppers, this pepper has no heat at all. its Scoville heat index is 0. Bell pepper varies in colors green, orange, yellow, and red varieties but there are also purple, brown. Bell pepper's taste is perfect for salads and grilled.
One of my favorite bell pepper recipe to make is stuffed pepper which I'm going to share on my upcoming post.
Thai Pepper
This pepper is grown in Thailand and other south east asian countries. One of the smallest pepper in the world measuring less than an inch but it's very hot with a Scoville heat index of between 50,000 and 100,000. It's spiciness suits perfectly with thai recipes, fajitas and my favorite kind of civeche.
Cayenne
A very hot kind of pepper with a heat index between 25,000 and 50,000.. With a vivid red color, cayenne pepper is generally dried and popularly used in powder form. This pepper has been used also in natural medicines for hundreds of years due to it's reported healing attributes.
Jalapeno
The Scoville heat index of Jalapeno is around 5,000.
Either red or green and with a size of 2 to 3 inches long,
this kind of pepper contains just the right amount of spiciness flavor to most Mexican dishes.
One of my favorite jalapeno dish is "deep-fry jalapeños stuffed with cheese", a tasty appetizer dish!
Carolina Reaper
Small vivid red peppers with pointy ends, bumps and deformations, Carolina Reaper is over 200 times spicy than jalapeño. With a heat index of 1,569,300 , this pepper is the Guinness World Records title holder as the HOTTEST PEPPER in the world!
Untill our next weekly series!
References:
- theseuceeats.com
- google images
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Peper is good. I made a Post with Chili today. Peper and chili are growing right now, right?
Ofcourse @jaklassen 😀
Saw your hot pine apple post. Look so interesting
Thanks for dropping by
I love stuffed bell peppers, too!
I have started making the mini stuffed peppers using the small sweet peppers - so good!!
Yes, one of my fave food specially during the cold season ❤️
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