Eagleclaww

Not sure of the shelf life, but keeping opened bags in the freezer extends it. I wouldn’t but so much that you wouldn’t use it within a year. I’d think in a freezer, 12 months should be doable.

You might be better off buying smaller bags. (1 lb) If I go to the international food store, they have small and large bags, but I’d never use a large bag in a year.

I’m a hot head, and ordered not only the red pepper used for kimchi, but also ordered 90,000 H.U. (heat units) Cayenne Pepper. (made from Carolina Cayenne peppers F.Y.I) which are 4x hotter than other varieties of Cayenne peppers.

That being said, I’m being half serious when I suggest this: If you think something is too hot… go and find the hottest eating you can find. For example, Wingstop (restaurant) has Atomic Wings.

Guaranteed after eating an order of those, sweating it out for 20 minutes while you eat something so hot your mouth feels like it’s eating molten lava.. you’ll permanently be able to withstand much hotter foods. -That being said, I didn’t say you could tolerate eating Atomic Wings too often. Its not the hottest wings out there, but they’re still way up on the Scoville heat scale. Buffalo Wings or whatever the restaurante is called.. has something comparable too.

Happy eating.