Hello fellow traveler!

I guess this week’s post could also have been easily called “The Fifth Element”…Let me explain…Nearly every cheese contains four base ingredients: Milk, Starter Culture, Rennet, and Salt….The fifth ingredient (or element) could be added flavors or colors, such as: Annatto coloring, herbs, or in today’s post, Peppers!

So How Hot is Hot?

Back in 1912, an American Pharmacist named Wilbur Lincoln Scoville developed a test and scale to measure pungency or “heat” of various chili peppers. This test was originally known as the “Scoville Organoleptic Test”, now just known simply as the Scoville Scale, which measures the concentration of capsaicinoids and measures them in Scoville Heat Units (SHU).…