World's hottest pepper

kuan · #1 09-26-2007, 03:42 PM

Just how hot is a million Scoville units? I can't even imagine!

From: Guinness names world's hottest pepper - Slashfood

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Guinness names world's hottest pepper

Posted Feb 20th 2007 3:04PM by Joanne Lutynec
Filed under: Science, Vegetables, Spices

Weighing in at 1,001,304 Scoville heat units, the Bhut Jolokia chili from India has been named the world's hottest pepper by the Guinness Book of World Records. Just to put that into perspective, the jalapeno sits at a meager 10,000 SHU.

jigz369 · #2 09-26-2007, 05:08 PM

I was recently reading on Chile-head.co.uk that you can now purchase pure capsacin, and it registers a whopping 16,000,000 SHU!!! Imagine the burn.....yummmmy!
Just my opinion though....

phatch · #3 09-26-2007, 05:51 PM

The bhut is in the range of cheap defense spray. pure cap sounds like jarred suffering.

Phil

bubbamom · #4 09-27-2007, 01:14 PM

Sorry, but I gotta say that the world's hottest pepper is the one (or piece of one) that you unsuspectingly bite into