The heat comes from the substance "capsaicin" which is found in all chillies. While commonly referred to as vegetables, chillies are in fact fruit from the plant genus "Capsicum". To give an indication of the Carolina Reaper’s spiciness, a Jalapeno can score anything between 2,500 to 8,000 SHU on the scale. "So I've been researching how not to die."Ĭhilli heat is measured by the Scoville Heat Unit (SHU) designed by American chemist Wilbur Scoville in 1912. Ripe Flavour: Dark rich, dry and bitter, like a chocolate carolina reaper, mixed with the unique soft. Colour: Unknown starting colour ripening to a rich shade of chocolate brown. "My family dies from cancer a lot," Ed explains. Scoville Heat Units: Claims of a 3.3 Million SHU Average have been made but not verified. Da Bomb’s Beyond insanity hot sauce is rated at 119,000 Scoville units. I personally have found that you can not always go by the rating. The Carolina Reaper pepper holds that distinction as of last year. His record-breaking Carolina Reaper has been ten years in the making, having meticulously worked on stabilising and testing the pepper, which is a crossing between Sweet Habanero and Naga Viper chillies.Įd says his interest in chillies became more serious after learning that capsaicin had potential as a cancer fighting drug, a discovery which led to him donating one-half of his pepper harvest last year to cancer research. Many say this pepper is actually hotter than the current Guinness rated Chili pepper. The Carolina Reaper, now famously known as the world’s hottest chili pepper, averages 1,569,300 SHU on the Scoville Scale with levels that even peak over 2,200,000 SHU.
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Having started growing chillies as a hobby over 20 years ago, Ed quit his job last year to concentrate full time on cultivating his “weapon quality peppers”.
The Carolina Reaper is described as having a fruity, sweet taste with a hint of cinnamon and chocolate undertones, as well as being hot. The Carolina Reaper’s heat rating beats the former record holder for most fiery chilli, the Trinidad Scorpion "Butch T" grown by The Chilli Factory (Australia), which was rated at 1,463,700 Scoville Heat Units (SHU) in March 2011. Grown by the suitably named Ed Currie from the PuckerButt Pepper Company, Smokin Ed's Carolina Reaper delivers an average of 1,569,300 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), a figure now confirmed by Guinness World Records. S cientists can determine how many parts per million of heat-causing alkaloids are present in a chile pepper and multiply that number by 16 to get the chile pepper's Scoville Rating.With its humid subtropical climate, the American state of South Carolina has a reputation for its hot summers, but it now has a new claim to fame for heat, with confirmation that a local producer has developed the world’s hottest chilli. Today another method is used high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The amount of dilution translates to the Scoville Scale. In 1912, Wilbur Scoville devised a method to rate the heat in a chile pepper diluting an alcohol based extract until human tasters no longer taste the heat. TRINIDAD SCORPION BUTCH T - 1,463,700 SHUīHUT JOLOKIA (Ghost Chile) - 1,041,800 SHU The higher the number, the hotter the pepper.ĬAROLINA REAPER- 2,200,000 SHU (SCOVILLE HEAT UNITS) The Scoville Scale is a measurement of the capsaicin concentration in a chile pepper.
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