Proper pepper selection, care and preparation can help you turn down the heat as needed.

If you're not a huge fan of spice (at least not to the point that your mouth feels like it's on fire), rest assured, Hatch green chiles fall pretty low on the Scoville scale, ranging between 1,500 and ...

dethroning the Carolina Reaper chili pepper after 10 years. For comparison, a habanero pepper typically hits 100,000 Scoville heat units, but Pepper X registers at 2.69 million units. Breeder and ...