Back last March, I reported on my discovery that the title of the World's Hottest Pepper* had been claimed by the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T, the heat of which had been rated at 1.464 million Scoville Units ...
But records are made to be broken, and so it is with the World's Hottest Pepper title. According to this article from Yahoo News, an intrepid grower in South Carolina has claimed the honor with his Carolina Reaper peppers, which measure a staggering 1,569,300 Scoville Units, with an individual pepper blazing in at 2.2 million ...
And won't sink your battleship.
Have a good day. More heated thoughts coming.
Bilbo
* I had been under the impression that the world's hottest Pepper was my high school friend of that name who now lives out in Las Vegas, but I appear to have been mistaken. Well, perhaps not ...
** Between 5,000 and 15,000 Scoville Units.
6 comments:
Mamma Mia! That is one hot pepper!
I'll stick to Tabasco.
Now these are peppers to eat only on a dare. Some heat can be too much!
They even look evil!
I don't think I would want to be in the same room with one of those.
A pepper only for the insane.
I eat green peppers, not jalapenos, on my hamburgers.
That is the nuclear option for hot peppers!
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