https://mexicanfoodjournal.com/salsa-taquera/ is the recipe I used! It has you cooking the chiles in oil for about a min then blending. First time using Arbols and it’s so mild… I don’t get it. My local taqueria makes a red one that I can’t have more than a few drops of… help? Any idea why? It’s not expired. Maybe this brand sucks?
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Did you remove the seeds? Generally dried chilis are hotter, if you keep the seeds but it’s not an exact science.
A lot of recepies call for a lot more chiles de arbol. Like 8 chiles or up to 4 ounces.
It’s not unheard of for chilis to be mislabeled, it’s happened to me twice.
I think guajillo are the spicy ones
Bad or mislabeled chiles, 22 arbols should be ripping hot
They are old.
Chilis can really vary in their spice level, maybe you just happened to get a really mild batch?
The flakier / drier they are, the older they are. You want ones that are a little pliable. Try and buy them bulk from a Mexican market rather than bagged.
Can always add some oil and fry them for a bit…. Did you remove the seeds?
to many chilis cancel each other out. [kidding.th](http://kidding.th)
You didn’t use the stems? Rookie move.
I don’t buy chiles with English phrases on the package so I cannot fathom a sufficient response.
I use Bolners all the time when I shop HEB and my chilies are usually quite spicy, like I need only a handful to get a nice kick. It may be your chilies may have gone stale.
I pop a dried arbol chile in my mouth every time I get a new bag just to make sure it’s spicy.
Probably just bad luck. Chiles are variable to begin with, they were dried and stored in an unknown way for an indefinite amount of time. I wouldn’t be discouraged
I used to buy my dry peppers at my local Fry’s supermarket. There are almost uniformly horrible. Dry, crumbly, often with wierd smells.
If there is a Latino market anywhere here you can get much better quality but sometimes you just get an off that.
I currently by almost all of my dry peppers on Amazon. There are a couple of vendors with gorgeous stuff and you can occasionally get some hard to find stuff like Pasilla de Oaxaca. There’s one guy that sells single pepper chili powders.