Live a little and Forking try a new pepper!

There’s a whole world of different peppers out there and they all taste different.

I decided to try the peppers in my cabinet and will try to describe how they taste.

To taste the spices I used a mild slice of cheese and hoped the flavor of the pepper would get absorbed into the cheese.

I’ll start at about 7:00 on the plate and work my way clockwise till I get in the middle of the plate.

Nora Pepper-Earthy and fruity with a little heat- more smokey/earthy than Aleppo Pepper. Nora Pepper is a staple in Spanish Cooking.

Aleppo Pepper- More sweet and fruity than the Nora Pepper. Slight earthy-smoke flavor with Medium heat.

Malabar Pepper- A familiar all purpose pepper black pepper but very flat one note tasting after tasting Tellicherry Pepper.

Tellicherry Pepper- Sweet smooth black pepper taste that doesn’t burn mouth like the Malabar.  Leaves a hot finish.

Piment D’ Espelette – Unique- Like super really good but better spicy paprika. Fruity, medium spice and more.

Cayenne – Smokey, earthy, hot, slight bitterness.

Shredded Red Pepper – Fruity with mild heat. Almost herbal taste.

Szechuan Pepper – (not a true pepper) Mix of lemon, ginger and tea leaves. Not hot but mouth numbing. To be used with hot peppers so you can enjoy them more.

White Pepper – Taste nothing like black pepper although white peppercorns are just ripe black peppercorns.  To me white pepper has a dusty potato skin taste. Kind of hot. I like to use some white pepper for potato dishes, risotto and gnocchi.

Live a little and Forking try a New Pepper.

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