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The freshness of your ingredients is the key to the success in any commercial kitchen. Whether you’re running a trendy restaurant, a hole-in-the-wall café or a food truck, the quality of the food you serve is tied directly to the freshness of ingredients.

When you serve cuisine with chile as a main ingredient, you run into a particular challenge. Whether you’re looking at New Mexico green chiles, Thai chiles or Indian ghost chiles, you discover the same thing: Chiles are only available fresh for a brief window of the year. That’s why the whole, dried chile pods and fresh-ground powders from The Chile Guy are so important.

Capturing Flavors at their Peak

The key to capturing the best flavor in our dried chiles is to harvest them at the peak of freshness and dry them quickly and carefully. This preserves the flavor and actually strengthens it, providing a burst of intensity when they’re incorporated into recipes.

We take this one step further when storing our chiles. We keep all of our dried chiles refrigerated to help them retain the oils essential to their flavor. Refrigeration keeps the chiles from absorbing any other flavors during storage, and it protects their flavor and potency for you.

Taste the Difference of Fresh, Quality Chiles

If you’ve never had a pure, fresh chile powder without fillers or dyes, you’re in for a treat. All of our products, from frozen chiles to whole pods, flakes and powders, are stored carefully to maintain optimum freshness. Bright, potent flavors are our trademark.

We rotate our inventory frequently to ensure that nothing stays on our shelf past its prime. Whether you’re ordering a few ounces or a few thousand pounds of chile, we’ll work with our distributors to accommodate the order from the freshest possible stock, not something that’s been sitting in a warehouse for months.

Taste the difference when you order from The Chile Guy. Contact us today for more information or to place your order

Running a commercial kitchen whether at a restaurant, a food processor or for a distributer can be expensive. You have to factor in time, labor, products and more and hope for an outcome at the end of each shift that leaves you some extra revenue. The Chile Guy understands the cost it takes to run a commercial kitchen and that is why he makes all of his chile products with your revenue-earning potential in mind.

Save Money on Labor

There are many ways to cut back on labor costs and one of the best ways is to reduce the time it takes for food prep. Food prep in a commercial kitchen for one meal service (breakfast, dinner, lunch) can take anywhere from 4 to 6 hours depending on the kitchen and the types of dishes you create. With our best-kept secrets and chile products, you can potentially cut that time in half, boosting your revenues and cutting your labor costs. Here’s how:

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Often when you hear of chili powder, you think of a mix of spices and herbs blended with chiles that can add a pungent or piquancy with extra flavor to a dish. In the commercial kitchen, chili powder is used for a number of applications from basic flavoring to being a main highlight in your signature dish. The Chile Guy knows that when you want quality chili powder, you want a pure form that doesn’t include all the extra spices and herbs that take away from the heat and flavor of the chile you seek.

Pure Chile Powder

The Chile Guy provides pure chile powder products without any additives or artificial dyes. This ensures your restaurant or commercial kitchen is (more…)

When you are looking to create the best flavor profile for your food with chile, do you care only about the intensity of the heat or do you want to make sure the flavor, not the heat is what makes it a winning dish? The Chile Guy in Albuquerque, New Mexico can handle all of your chile needs whether you are looking for powders, pods and more. In this week’s blog, we discuss habanero peppers and Ghost Chili.

Welcome to Flavor Country where the Heat is Twice as Nice

Habanero peppers are among the hottest peppers in the world with Scoville measurements averaging between 80,000 and 600,000 units! This delicious pepper can really bring the heat to your favorite recipes, so be prepared as not every pepper is the same. The habanero provides a slightly fruity (more…)

Fall in New Mexico means the smell of green chile roasting, hot air balloons in the sky, and a change in the color of leaves. In New Mexico, we love roasted green chile and we put it on pretty much everything we eat, but do you know the right way to roast and peel green chile so you can bring out the best flavor? In this week’s blog, we discuss the proper way to roast green chile and peel it.

Roasting Green Chile

There are a few different methods one can use to roast a green chile with each producing delicious results. The most common methods of roasting green chile include:

• Outdoor on the Grill: With this method you will need a very hot bbq pit, tongs, a damp dish towel and a large pot. You will want to puncture each green chile and place them on the grill, turning them frequently over the flames. As they begin to roast, the skin of the (more…)

The secret to amazing, flavorful meat is a solid rub as the base. The Chile Guy in Albuquerque, New Mexico has a large variety of chiles, flakes, seeds and powders that can help you create an award-winning rub perfect for every dish.

Dry Rubs

A dry rub requires a ratio of spices and herbs known as the 8:3:1:1 rub. This rub may not help you master your bbq grill, but it will help you master a flavor profile that is bar none to anyone else’s.

First you will want to select the fresh herbs and spices you plan to use, for a basic rub we recommend using salt, ground black (more…)

Chile lovers often mistake poblano peppers and dried ancho as the same thing, but they’re only half right! Ancho is the dried form of poblano peppers. Dried anchos are mild on the Scoville scale of heat, offering a earthy, paprika-like taste.

Red, Green or Dried?

Poblano peppers are native to Puebla, Mexico. In fact, “poblano” is also the word for an inhabitant of Puebla. “Ancho” means “wide chile” in Spanish, reflecting the wide, almost heart shape of the pepper. Both red and green varieties exist, with the red variety being significantly hotter than the green. Dark green chiles mature to reddish brown in about 80 days. Once dried, ancho peppers take on a deep red or brown color with a medium thick flesh.

A Mild, Sweet Taste

Dried ancho peppers are the sweetest of dried chiles. The dried exterior resembles a raisin in taste, while the interior produces heat that’s mild on the Scoville scale—about 1,000-1,500. Whole dried ancho peppers offer depth and complexity to restaurant dishes and commercial food.

Ancho Peppers in Commercial Applications

Anchos more than pull their weight when it comes to wholesale costs. Dried ancho peppers have a high yield of flesh to skin, making them an efficient and delicious addition to sauces, salsas, enchiladas and Mexican cuisine. Dried ancho peppers are also frequently used to enhance the color of food in commercial applications.

It is chile though with a characteristic "peppery" taste with modest heat and adaptable to a wide range of recipes from simple to complex.  Chile Dogs to Moles.

Several years ago, an executive chef at a major league baseball park once specified the type of pepper needed for Chili Dogs on opening day and for the rest of the season this way:  "I need a Chile Powder that I can make a sauce with that will make a 5-year-old feel like they are eating  ‘Chili’ but that chili won’t make them cry." Ancho Powder was selected and they have been a customer since.

Where to Buy Bulk Dried Ancho Peppers

The Chile Guy only provides dried ancho peppers hand-selected from the finest quality chiles in whole, powder and flake formats. We are committed to providing you with the very best quality chile peppers at the best wholesale prices. Contact us at 800-869-9218 to order dried ancho chile peppers from The Chile Guy.

Its flavors are mild and pleasant, pleasing to tea drinkers for centuries. On top of being fragrant and delicious to drink, manzanilla was also known as a remedio for stomach ailments and insomnia by Spanish colonists in the Southwest.

Today, people across the world continue to drink manzanilla for its medicinal qualities as well as its pleasing herbal taste. In fact, manzanilla is so popular, it is second only to black tea as the bestselling tea in the world!

What is Manzanilla?

Manzanilla is what the Spanish call chamomile, a daisy-like plant that’s golden in color. Chamomile actually dates back to ancient Egypt, where it was used for a variety of ailments. The herb moved from the Middle East to Spain, where conquistadors eventually brought it to the New World.

Manzanilla has long been known as an herbal tea with medicinal qualities. The Egyptians, Greeks and Romans used it as a poultice for wound healing, while medieval monks explored its benefits in herbal tinctures. Later, the Spanish used it to flavor a light sherry wine that is called—you guessed it—manzanilla!

Why Should You Consider Manzanilla?

Winemaking aside, chamomile is an herb that is famous for its soothing benefits. Numerous studies show that chamomile contains anti-inflammatory and antispasmodic compounds. Due to its anti-inflammatory properties, Europeans have long been using chamomile tea as a remedy for stomachaches and digestive.

More recently, cosmetics companies have started to add chamomile to makeup because chamomile’s anti-inflammatory properties soothe irritated skin naturally.

Chamomile also contains chrysin, a flavonoid that has been shown to encourage sleep in animals. Chamomile tea has been used for its sleep-inducing effects for centuries, and it is still used for the same reason today.

Bulk Chamomile-Order Yours Now!

Even the scent of manzanilla is calming and sweet. You can enjoy the benefits of chamomile through a soothing cup of tea or by extracting essential oils from the plant.

If you’re searching for bulk chamomile, The Chile Guy has it! We carry bulk chamomile that’s can be used for a variety of purposes. Contact us to place your order or order online today.

If you have questions about bulk chamomile by The Chile Guy, call us nationally at 800-867-4251 or in Bernalillo, New Mexico at 505-869-9218 to speak with a knowledgeable member of our staff.