The Dorset Naga...
Weighing in at 1.6 million scoville units.
The Dorset Naga...
Weighing in at 1.6 million scoville units.
From here: "Some chillis are fierce enough to make your eyes water. Anyone foolhardy enough to eat a whole Dorset Naga would almost certainly require hospital treatment."
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That article says that it is only at 923,000 Scoville Units..
I thought that the Indian "Ghost chilli" (bhut jolokia) was the hottest.
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Wikipedia seems to side with DarkFury (and what I thought as well).
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From DorsetNaga.com:Annually, since 2005, we have tested the heat level of Dorset Naga, taking samples from different sites, various seasons and states of maturity. The heat level has ranged from 661,451 SHU for green fruit in 2007, up to 1,032,310 SHU for ripe fruit harvested in 2009.
High as our results are, the BBC's “Gardeners’ World” television programme recorded a much higher heat level for Dorset Naga. As part of the 2006 programming, the BBC gardening team ran a trial looking at several chilli varieties, including Dorset Naga. Heat levels were tested by Warwick HRI and the Dorset Naga came in at 1,598,227 SHU, the hottest heat level ever recorded for a chilli.
We are not fully confident of such an extreme figure. However, even after accounting for error, the near 1.6 million SHU measurement still indicates the capacity of this chilli to reach extreme heat levels.
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either way im eating neither of those chilis
I like jalapenos on sandwiches (5,000 SHU) and I have no interest in trying anythign above Serrao peppers (6k-23k SHU)
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I second this line of thinking...Originally Posted by cruelpupet
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Personally, I make a mean Habenero hot sauce from scratch, but it makes my house unliveable for 2 days while I am cooking it. My sauce is hotter than hell, but has a good taste. I have tried many of the super hot sauces...but if they dont taste good, whats the point.
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I had a friend who was slicing some habaneros and forgot to wash his hands before using the bathroom. He never made that mistake again. I also don't like painfully hot sauces. There's a local place near me that makes an amazing tiger cry sauce. My mouth burns for about 10 minutes after eating it but it's delicious.
Same thing happened to me, but it was jalapenos, I washed my hands, and it was my eyes a touched.
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Just for posterity, the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper now claims the record at 1,463,700 Scoville heat units.
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i'll pass on all those hot peppers im just not one who likes anything spicy hot.
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Why do people want to consume these gastric violations of nature?
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Maybe they're trying to compensate for something?
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My guess is part flavor (jalapenos on everything!!!)
and part is the rush
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It is said that consuming extremely hot foods releases endorphins.
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You also tend to crave something sweet after to calm down the synapses from firing off constantly
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At that level of heat, I highly doubt that there really is any flavor as your taste buds probably have singed off...
I can accept the "rush/endorphine" theory, but honestly I guess I'd have to put these folks in the same category as those people who perform "self mutilation" for "the rush"...
I just can't go there...
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jalapenos arent that hot.
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True, but they are flavorful, thus are a nice compliment to the foods you use them in.
BTW.. I wasn't talking about Jalepenos in my previous response, I was talking about those super hot peppers of the original post.
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Well in the case of the dorset naga and peppers like that, I guess its limited to the rush/bragging rights
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This guy popped an entire dorset naga and ate it. I wonder if he still has taste buds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR7jvw9W-TQ
I prefer this one, where 2 girls eat ghost chilis, but one gets a dud and then refuses to eat another after she sees what her friend went through.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzlud...eature=related
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Well, they say that some fruit from the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion plants have reached 2 million Scoville units.
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I read about that the other day. That test seems better as they gre all of the different peppers in the same location and then grabbed a few of each to take averages.
There were still wild swings in "heat" but I would assume theres no noticeable difference between 1 million and 2 million SHU. At a certain point all the nerves are firing as rapidly as possible and an increase wont do anything.
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I liked this part of the article:During harvesting, senior research specialist Danise Coon said she and the two students who were picking the peppers went through about four pairs of latex gloves.
"The capsaicin kept penetrating the latex and soaking into the skin on our hands. That has never happened to me before," she said.
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