Chipotle
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Chipotle is a smoke-dried ripe (red) Jalapeño . Slow smoking concentrates the pod into a leathery, wrinkled brown chile with a deep, savoury, smoky heat. Two main types: morita (smoked less, softer and fruitier, reddish-brown — the common supermarket type) and meco (smoked about twice as long, tan-grey, drier, more intensely smoky). The shorter-smoked, reddish-brown Morita type is the common supermarket chipotle.
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- ASpecies: C. annuum
- BRipe color: Brown/Chocolate
- SMPattern and skin: Smooth and Glossy
- JPod form: Standard tapered
- 4Heat: 5,001 to 15,000 SHU
- 007Serial number
Chipotle is a smoke-dried ripe (red) Jalapeño . Slow smoking concentrates the pod into a leathery, wrinkled brown chile with a deep, savoury, smoky heat. Two main types: morita (smoked less, softer and fruitier, reddish-brown — the common supermarket type) and meco (smoked about twice as long, tan-grey, drier, more intensely smoky). The shorter-smoked, reddish-brown Morita type is the common supermarket chipotle.
Last updated Oct 15, 2026
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