These particular extra hot crushed red pepper flakes are what you may call “exuberantly piquant,” “excessively perky,” or as our intern referred to it, “Oh god, oh god, what have I done? My world is now made of fire.”

Of course, heat levels are subjective so you may only see these as “Dang, that’s pretty flippin’ hot.” The chiles we leave on the plant grow from green to burgundy to fire engine red. Blazing hot they are. We then cure and air dry them before crushing them into a hellish flurry of chile flakes that have plenty of seeds left in for kick.