The Jerk Store Called... Trivia Quiz

Answer: Allspice

Allspice is made up of the dried berries of the plant Pimenta dioica. Some think allspice tastes like a combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.

Answer: Scotch bonnet

The Scotch bonnet is one of the hottest peppers, with a Scoville rating up to 350,000. This is very hot, considering a jalapeno rates roughly 2,500. The infinity chili was the world's hottest pepper at 1,067,286, but not for long. The Naga Viper pepper took the title of the world's hottest pepper on February 25, 2011, with a heat rating of 1,382,118.

The three hottest peppers (infinity chili, ghost pepper, and Naga Viper) are so hot that the spice of the peppers will stay with you for life.

Answer: Clove

Clove is very strong in flavor, so not much is used in most seasonings. Whole cloves are often used to make a sauce or to flavor chicken by poking dried cloves into an orange peel. When cooked with meats or to make a sauce, the cloves in the orange peel give it a very rich and strong flavor.

Answer: Cinnamon

Cinnamon is actually made from the inner bark of trees from the Cinnamomum genus. Cinnamon can be used for both sweet and savory dishes, such as cinnamon raisin toast or to add a slight sweetness to a bowl of chili. Cinnamon can also bring a hot and spicy element to many things, such as candy.

Answer: Scallions

Scallions and green onions are quite the same, though my uncle would tell you otherwise. Scallions are similar to chives, with a long, oniony stalk with a small onion bulb at the bottom, like most onions. They have a very mild onion flavor, not as strong as many other onions. Scallions can also be the young onions from many other onion types that are not fully developed.

Answer: Nutmeg

Nutmeg is from the Myristica genus of plants. Both nutmeg and mace can be made from the plant. Nutmeg is the fruit of the plant, which resembles a small walnut. Mace is made from the leaves of the plant.

Answer: Thyme

Thyme is an herb that can be used to flavor almost any savory dish. It does not have a strong flavor, but it is quite tasty. It is not one of those herbs you have to be careful with; too much thyme won't spoil the whole meal, unlike many herbs, such as rosemary, might do.

Answer: Garlic

Garlic is a very common spice that can be used in just about any savory dish, and even some sweet dishes. Garlic is often said to keep vampires away, so some people have a lei of dried garlic in their kitchen. Garlic has a very strong flavor, and can leave the breath smelling bad, and some people even sweat a garlicy smell, so oftentimes garlic is used sparingly.

Answer: Salt and pepper

Jamaican jerk spice is not complete without salt and pepper. Most spice mixtures include at least some salt and pepper, which are perhaps the two most commonly used spices is many different cuisines. They are usually the cheapest spices, and give good flavors to any dish; making them some of the most-used spices.

Answer: Grilled over charcoal

Jamaican jerk spice is best grilled in a jerk pan over hardwood charcoal. To give it even more flavor, the berries, leaves, and wood of the allspice plant is put among the coals. The flavor of the allspice plant penetrates through the meat itself, giving the meat a flavor throughout, as opposed to simply a layer of spice on the meat.