Cayenne Pepper

Cayenne pepper is our hottest ground red pepper, this cayenne clocks in at 40,000 scoville heat units (HOT!).

In early American cooking, cayenne pepper was added to many dishes; not just for heat, but also for its subtle enhancement of other flavors. In older spice trade definitions, any pepper that was hotter-than-hot was called "cayenne," after an area of South America which once exported super-hot peppers. This pepper will zip up any dish. When a recipe calls for red pepper, this is the pepper it means.

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