What is crushed red pepper?


 
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Dave L.

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What kind of chile peppers do restaurants use that are on the table in the little shake jars that you put on your food for a little heat. I always called it crushed red pepper and would like to have it in my kitchen.
 
Dave,

I think different suppliers use various types of chili peppers. To my knowledge, there's no one type used and very well likely a blend could be found in those shakers.

Paul
 
Right. And some use a blend to moderate, lower or raise the heat level of the chile they use as a base.
 
I feel like what I see most is red (more ripe, older, whatever you want to say) jalepeno's including seeds, Im not exactly positive though. I think this because there not exactly scortching hot, but do have a nip on your tongue. Hotter i've always assumed to be cayenne crushed. Again just taking a swing/guess at it. I've only noticed the thickness being different. Already noted I have been to a few places where the seeds even looked different along w/ the color as well. When there dried and crushed up it can be awfully hard to tell for me.
 
Those are my thoughts also Dan. It's always redish with a little bite but not overly hot. And it's flakey, not powder. I don't know, it was just something I was curious about.
 
We always have a jar of McCormick Crushed Red Pepper on hand!

The wife won't eat pizza without it.
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JimT
 
last year i smoked some cayenne peppers on the WSM for a few hours at 90º then put them in a dehydrator for the rest of the day. whenever a recipe calls for crushed red pepper i use a few of those and throw them in the mini chopper. they are great on pizza too.
 
I grew these a couple of years ago then dried - Thai red peppers, they still have lots of flavor, much better than store bought...I keep a couple in a small motor and pestle on the kitchen counter.
 
I had a bumper crop of cayenne peppers one year (grown in two big flower pots on my deck), and they made really good crushed peppers.
 
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