Chile Pepper Fun Fact - De-seed Me
Take out the seeds they say, they are hot they say... But
Did you know that hot pepper seeds aren’t actually the source of the pepper's hotness? A pepper’s heat actually comes from capsaicin— a colorless, pungent crystalline compound produced in the veins/ribs of a pepper. The seeds may seem ‘hot’ but that’s because they are coated in capsaicin oil, not because they are hot themselves. The ribs and membranes are up to 16x as hot as the rest of the fruit and because the pepper grows from the stem, it tends to be hotter at the base then it is at the tip. Be careful where you bite!