The Pepperheads pepper reference
Scoville heat, growing guides and festivals, from Pepperheads.
Scoville heat explorer
Our explorer lists 35 varieties and 95 quoted heat figures in one sortable table, with a CSV download.
Growing guides
Our 6 guides cover five Capsicum species, plus indoor growing and overwintering.
Festival calendar
Our calendar lists 8 hot sauce and pepper festivals in Ohio, the wider Midwest, and western Pennsylvania, with date excerpts linked to the festival sites.
Our take written by Pepperheads
Pepperheads is a hot sauce and hot pepper brand from Cleveland, and this section is our pepper reference. It has three parts: the Scoville explorer, the growing guides and the festival calendar.
On each page, quotation boxes show the source's wording with a link to the source page, and sections labeled as ours explain those quotes in plain language. Where we found no quote for a topic, the page says so.
How we source it
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