- Before working with peppers, coat your hands with just a bit of olive oil. This will protect your skin, and then you can just wash your glove off afterwards
- The seeds and vein contain most of the heat in a pepper
- Most of the seeds will be near the stem
- Green jalapeños will turn red if left on the vine
- Green bell peppers are just unripe red bell peppers
- Hatch chilies have the best flavor out of many similar peppers
- A pepper gets “hotter” if it is stressed during growth
- A dried pepper should still be slightly pliable
- When cutting a bell pepper, use the outsides and keep the core intact. It will stay fresh for 3 days longer.
