Habanero Chile Powder

Serious heat, roughly 100,000 to 350,000 Scoville units, but habanero is more than fire: there's real tropical fruit behind it, closer to apricot and citrus than anything else in the chile world.

Ingredients: Habanero chile powder.

How to use: Start with a pinch and work up. It's easy to overshoot and impossible to walk back.

Try it in: hot sauce, jerk seasoning, salsa, mango and pineapple dishes, wing sauce, and marinades.