Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “All About Chiles”
by Dave DeWitt (Photos by Molly Wales) Recipes: Chuletas de Cerdo en Chile Rojo, Estilo Cervantes Grilled Green Chile-Stuffed Pepper Steaks Wrapped in Bacon It’s called the “set-up,” the underlying theme of an appearance on a cooking show like “BBQ with Bobby Flay.” And since the official State Question of New Mexico is “Red or Green?” it made perfect sense …
By Dave DeWitt and Chuck Evans Recipes: Homemade Tabasco®-Style Sauce Keeping “Pace®” with Picante Sauces “Hotter Than Heinz®” Ketchup Caribbean Sun-of-a Beach Hot Pepper Sauce Chuck’s Chipotle Sauce Transplanted Sriracha Sauce Editor’s Note: One question that is asked over and over again in email to us is: “How do I make hot sauce?” Well, Chuck Evans and I wrote an …
By Dave DeWitt I have uncovered a study that seems to support what many people believe: That “men tend to have a stronger preference than women for spicy, hot foods.” This conclusion, along with “men are more likely than women to seek unusual and new foods,” results from a study done in 1988 by Drs. Thomas R. Alley and W. …
by Dave DeWitt Seen at Tomasitas, a Santa Fe, NM restaurant Photo by Harald Zoschke I admit it, I was completely wrong. But I have an excuse: I was misled by published articles. For years I have written that the sensitivity in the mouth for capsaicin was controlled by the number of taste buds, and that super-tasters, people with …
by Dave DeWitt Given the fact that some manufacturers are using one million Scoville Unit oleoresins to manufacture super-hot sauces, the question comes up about the dangers of capsaicin. The biggest danger, of course is death. Is it possible? Can capsaicin kill you in high enough dosages? In order to determine the lethal toxic level of capsaicinoids in animals, and …
