Chili Peppers | Scoville Heat

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chili Peppers 

Here are freshly picked chili peppers and tomatoes on a bed of  spicy oregano from my garden.

Southwest Culture Includes Chile Pepper Cuisine and Festivals

Hatch chili pepper festivals are occurring all over the southwestern United States so I thought I would update my Scoville chart. The original Hatch Chile Festival in Hatch, New Mexico started as an annual event that occurred every Labor Day.  The small farming community in New Mexico is the Chile Capital of the world, known worldwide for raising renowned Hatch chilies. To be a genuine Hatch chile it must be grown around the Hatch, New Mexico area. You will find several cultivars and heat levels coming out of that area but most of the chilies are a type of New Mexico chile or Anaheim chili. For those of you saying to yourself, "wait a minute, Anaheim is in California," you are correct. The name "Anaheim" derives from Emilio Ortega, a farmer who brought the seeds to the Anaheim, California, area in the early 1900s. They are also called California chile or Magdalena, and dried as chile seco del norte. Since Anaheim peppers originated from New Mexico, they are also sometimes known as New Mexico chili peppers.
The New Mexico chili is a group of cultivars first grown by Pueblo and Hispano communities throughout Santa Fe de Nuevo México. The plants were developed by horticulturist Fabián Garcia at New Mexico State University in 1894.

Scoville Heat Chart

Scoville Heat Unit (SHU)	Type of Pepper
0	No Heat ~ Bell Pepper
100 ~ 500	Pimento ~ Pepperoncini
500 ~ 2,500	Anaheim Chili Pepper
1,000 ~ 1,500	Poblano Chili Pepper
1,500 ~ 2,500	Rocotillo Chili Pepper
2,500 ~ 8,000	Jalapeno Chili Pepper
4,500 ~ 5,000	New Mexican Varieties of Anaheim Chili Pepper
5,000 ~ 10,000	Wax Chili Pepper
10,000 ~ 23,000	Serrano Chili Pepper
30,000 ~ 50,000	Cayenne, Aji, and Tabasco Chili Peppers
30,000 ~ 50,000	Chilli Willy, Peter Chili Peppers
50,000 ~ 100, 000	Thai, Pequin, Chiltepin, Malagueta Chili Peppers
100,000 ~ 200, 000	Jamaican Hot, Rocoto, African Birdseye Chili Peppers
100,000 ~ 350, 000	Habanero, Scotch Bonnet Chili Pepper
350,000 ~ 577,000	Red Savino Habanero Chili Pepper
855,000 ~ 1,041,427	Naga Jolokia Chili Pepper
2,000,000 ~ 5,300,000	Pepper Spray
15,000,000 ~ 16,000,000	Capsaicin

 

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