Today during Lab we "dissected" peppers and we got to see what makes them spicy: capsaicin. We also learned that the smaller the pepper, the higher concentration of capsaicin it will have.
Which brings me to pequin peppers. My grandma brings us pequin peppers from the Sierra of Chihuahua, and they're really spicy. They are tiny , but just one will make you food spicy enough (sometimes more than enough). They have a rating of 30,000-60,000 units in the Scoville scale, which is a scale that measures the spicy heat of a chili pepper according to its capsaicin content.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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