Tabasco Hot Pepper Chilli Sauce
The Tabasco chilli pepper is most famous for its use in sauce by McIlhenny Company. The pepper has a scoville heat unit range of between 30,000 – 50,000.
Unlike most chiles, tabasco fruits grow up, rather than hanging down from their stems.
Even though the word “tabasco” is the name of a Mexican state, this variety of pepper was first grown in large quantities in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The initial letter of “tabasco” is rendered in lowercase when referring to the botanical variety, but is capitalized when used as a brand name to refer to the pepper’s namesake sauce product, Tabasco sauce.
Until recently, all of the peppers used to make Tabasco sauce were grown on Avery Island, Louisiana. While a small portion of the crop is still grown on the island, the bulk of the crop is now grown in Central and South America, where the weather and the availability of more farmland allow a more predictable and larger year-round supply of peppers. This also helps to ensure the supply of peppers should something happen to the crop at a particular location. All of the seeds are still grown on Avery Island.
This famous sauce is still as good today as it ever was and is considered by some to be the classic chilli sauce.
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