05/26/2025
Back to basics. The evolution of superhot peppers and the supporting community has been phenomenal and lightning quick. Over the past five years, the quest for the hottest pepper and the quintessential hot sauce has had us all enthralled, even the national media. Serious growers with a serious understanding of the science have created amazing hybrids upon hybrids with an attentive eye to phenotypes and Scoville ratings. Much respect to all these growers.
But who among us pepperheads didn't begin with a jalapeno or a habanero or maybe even a poblano. As the pepper world speeds ever forward on the heat scale, we would like to take a moment this year to revisit where almost all of us started -- the medium to hot range peppers -- and explore them a little more. The multiple types of jalapenos. The multiple varieties of hatch peppers. Cayenne. Serrano. Poblano. Not the inadequate mass-produced peppers that you find in the local grocery store, but the fresh, homegrown varieties.
We are back to basics this year with those varieties and more. We will also have some of the essential superhots. The Moruga scorpion, the red ghost, and the 7 pot. The true basics. The building blocks of the hybrids. And of course the greatest crop this planet has ever produced: the sugar rush peach pepper. Along with a few more, this is our vibe this season. Maybe next year we will get back to Mr. Scoville's cutting edge, but join us this season in paying homage to where we started. Peppers available soon, both locally and online. Stay spicy with flavor!
