Chili & Hot Sauce Calculators
Free, practical tools for growing, fermenting, drying, and cooking with chili peppers — estimate a blend’s heat, dial in a ferment brine, swap peppers by heat level, scale a recipe to a target Scoville rating, and figure out how much pepper a batch really needs.
Scoville Blend Calculator
Estimate the blended Scoville Heat Units of a chili mash made from more than one pepper — enter each variety and its weight to get the weight-averaged heat of the mix.
Ferment Brine Ratio Calculator
Work out exactly how much salt to dissolve into a given amount of water for a lacto-fermented chili mash, at any target brine strength.
Chili Substitution Calculator
Find how much of a substitute pepper to use in place of the one a recipe calls for, scaled by Scoville Heat Units so the dish keeps roughly the same heat.
Hot Sauce Heat-Scaling Calculator
Solve for the exact pepper mass needed to bring a hot sauce batch to a target Scoville level, given the weight of everything else in the recipe.
Pepper Drying Weight Calculator
Estimate how much a batch of chilies will weigh once dried, from the fresh weight and the moisture percentages before and after drying.
How Many Peppers Calculator
Work out how many whole peppers to blend into a dip, marinade, or dressing to hit a target Scoville heat level.