Abefroman, note that the Reimer site says "said to be the hottest."
Who says so are the folks at Redwood City Seeds, who have touted the Indian PC-1 for years. However, they use their own hotness scale, different from Scoville Heat Units, which is the industry standard.
Trying to establish comparability between the Redwood City measuring system and SHUs, it is guessed that the PC-1 equals about 750,000 SHUs.
So, the PC-1 may, indeed, be the hotest pepper in the world. But so far it isn't accepted as such by most authorities. |