Chiltepinero Molcajete + Dried Chiltepin · .5oz Jar

The pepper y la herramienta. Together, like they've always been.

In Sonora, chiltepin isn't shaken out of a bottle. It's crushed fresh, right at the table, in a chiltepinero.. a small hand-carved mortar made from ironwood, one of the hardest woods in the desert. This one is handmade, no two alike. The grain, the carving, the weight in your hand.. all of it comes from real hands, not a machine.

Alongside it, a .5oz jar of whole dried chiltepin, picked one by one in the Sonoran desert by chiltepineros who have spent generations mastering this pepper.. studying the exact climate and soil where it develops its fullest flavor and fiercest heat. La madre de todos los chiles, the oldest pepper in North America.

Drop a few peppers in, crush them fresh over caldos, carne asada, aguachile, frijoles.. whatever's on the table. Fresh-crushed chiltepin hits different than anything pre-ground. Brighter, smokier, alive.

This is how it's done at the mesa in Hermosillo. Now it's how it's done at yours. De la mata a tu mesa.