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Your Blazing-Hot Guide to Cooking with Fresh Chiles
Cooking
Summer's chile explosion is about much more than five-alarm novelty. Here's how to tease out all the nuanced flavors fresh peppers offer. Get ready: August is going to be lit.

Amiel Stanek

Here’s Why Water Doesn’t Help When You Eat a Spicy Pepper
Cooking
When capsaicin is the culprit, reach for booze or dairy instead.

Aliza Abarbanel

There’s More to Chile Flakes Than Crushed Red Pepper
Cooking
Make room in your pantry for a chile collection.

Rebecca Gao

Feeling Hot-Hot-Hot: How to Choose and Cook With Fresh Chiles
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Put down the jar of red pepper flakes: We've got the intel on how to cook with fresh chiles—including how to choose the right level of heat for your favorite dishes.

Rochelle Bilow

When to Use Dried Chiles vs. Fresh vs. Powder vs. Flakes
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Our guide to using different types of chiles, from dried and flaked to fresh and powder.

Danielle Walsh

Homemade Chile Butter Gives Any Meal a Whole New Lewk 
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Just don't call it compound butter. 

Molly Baz

Chili Colorado Is the Greatest Recipe of All Time
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Chili Colorado is the greatest recipe of all time.

Rick Martinez

Porotos Con Riendas Is the Stew to End All Stews
Cooking
This beloved Chilean dish has squash, spaghetti, and beans—what more do you want?

Miska Lewis

The Science Behind Why We Love Eating Spicy Food
Culture
How spicy food became ubiquitous in the world’s hottest places—and why the rest of the planet just can’t get enough

Von Diaz

Why You Should Stock Your Pantry with Dried Chiles
Cooking
A world traveler shouts out his love for dried chiles, from Mexico to China

Matt Gross

How Bobby Flay Cooks with Chile Peppers
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From jalapeño alternatives to the use of honey and maple syrup, how chef Bobby Flay uses chile peppers in his cooking

Adam Rapoport

Make This Chile Crisp at Home Then Pour It on Everything
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It heats up a cool celery tofu salad...and anything else in your fridge.

Chris Morocco

Please Don’t Tell My Other Chile Flakes That This One Is My Favorite
Culture
I sprinkle fruity, sweet, and smoky Korean gochugaru on basically everything I cook.

Christina Chaey

Sambal Oelek Is the Hot Sauce That Can Do Everything
Cooking
You've fallen in love with sriracha, but you should be cooking with sambal

Rick Martinez

How I Gently Introduced My Toddler to Spicy Food
Cooking
Not all kids can tolerate full rendang from the start. Develop their spice tolerance a little at a time.

Lara Lee

An Ode to Chile Peppers (and the Best Hot Sauce Recipe I've Got)
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There's an unfathomable variety of recipes for hot sauce, and finding your favorite might take some doing. Here's mine.

Ian Knauer

All You Need to Make This Easy Peanut Chili Oil is a Pair of Scissors
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Elyssa Goldberg

'Can Chiles Keep My Feet Warm?' and 4 Other Questions No One Asks About Chiles
Culture
The Chile Pepper Institute of New Mexico answers 5 strange questions about chiles.

Ann Mah

If You Must Only Eat One Burrito, Make It the Cheesy Chile Relleno
Culture
It’s a cheese-stuffed roasted and fried green chile that’s nestled into a swipe of refried pinto beans and wrapped inside a supple flour tortilla.

Maggie Hennessy

Turn Your Bounty of Herbs Into Trinidadian Green Seasoning
Cooking
Use it anywhere you’d like a bright, garlicky punch of flavor.

Linda Shiue

Urfa Chile Makes Everything Better, Including This Chocolate Bar
Shopping
There’s a lot of fancy chocolate on the market. This one is my favorite.

Esra Erol

Everything You Need to Know About Small but Mighty Chiltepín Chile
Cooking
This pepper is not a one-dimensional ingredient.

Sylvio Martins

This Spicy-Sweet Chile Mango Sundae Is Summer in a Glass
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What's the move when it's 100 degrees out and the last thing you want is full-dairy ice cream? This chile mango sundae, of course.

Elyssa Goldberg