Above is the press release about our ongoing attempt at the Guinness World Record for what they call “Hottest Chili.” We missed it by that much, but never fear, we’ll be back! Read the entire story here.
Trinidad Scorpion or Trinidad 7 Pot? Both!
Text and Photos ©2010 by Jim Duffy, RefiningFireChiles.com I grow the hardest-to-find strains of rare hot chiles and any chile I grow for seed is isolated on one of 23 different properties in San Diego county. I have been growing the Trinidad superhots now for 3 years, trying to get the develop the best strains I can. After all that …
How to Cook with the Superhot Chiles
By Dave DeWitt This superhot kitchen situation is not for the faint of hearth! Over the past few years we’ve seen a dramatic escalation in the heat levels of certain varieties of the species Capsicum chinense, those fiery habanero relatives. When I got started in the fiery foods biz more than two decades ago, the orange habanero was king of …