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With a Scoville score of 1041427 SHU it is about 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce about 200 times hotter than a jalapeño pepper and about 6 times hotter than a habanero pepper. Originally ranked as worlds hottest in 2013 the Reaper was tested again in 2018 with an even higher SHU.
While there is no trophy or championship growers continue to push the limits of the Scoville Scale.
Hot pepper scale ghost. The Scoville Scale is an objective scale used for measuring the spicy heat of peppers and other hot foods. Items on the scale are ranked by their Scoville Heat Units SHU which measure the concentration of capsaicin the active compound responsible for spice. All varieties of hot peppers are measured on the Scoville Scale but here are a few of the more common ones.
Ghost pepper scoville units are 800000 to 1001300 SHU Habanero Scoville units are a whopping 150000 to 575000 SHU. What are the five hottest pepper in the world. As of 2018 the hottest pepper in the world is the Carolina Reaper 22 million Scoville Heat Units followed by the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion 2 million SHU 7 Pot Douglah 18 million SHU 7 Pot Primo 14 million SHU and Trinidad Scorpion Butch T 14 million SHU.
In 2007 the ghost pepper ranked as the the worlds hottest chili pepper. With a Scoville score of 1041427 SHU it is about 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce about 200 times hotter than a jalapeño pepper and about 6 times hotter than a habanero pepper. Approximation of heat used to compare the relative spiciness of peppers.
Ghost Pepper Bhut Jolokia Red. 1000000 Scovilles Caribbean Red Hot. 400000 450000 Scovilles Jamaican Yellow.
200000 Scovilles Scotch Bonnet. 200000 300000 Scovilles. The Carolina Reaper is once again officially the Worlds Hottest Pepper.
Originally ranked as worlds hottest in 2013 the Reaper was tested again in 2018 with an even higher SHU. 71000 SHU higher to be exact This gives the reaper a renewed title as Worlds Hottest. The Scoville scale is a tool for measuring the spiciness or pungency of hot peppers.
The scale measures the amount of capsaicin the chemical compound that causes spicy heat in a pepper and assigns it a number rating in Scoville Heat Units SHUs. This has resulted the ghost pepper falling to number 5 on the Scoville Scale. In the latest adventures of Botanists Gone Wild several new hybrids have laid claim to the title of Hottest Chile Pepper in the World.
While there is no trophy or championship growers continue to push the limits of the Scoville Scale. The ghost pepper also known as bhut jolokia is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in Northeast India. It is a hybrid of Capsicum chinense and Capsicum frutescens and is closely related to the Naga Morich.
In 2007 Guinness World Records certified that the ghost pepper was the worlds hottest chili pepper 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce. The ghost chili is rated at more than one million Scoville Heat Units. However in the race to grow the hottest pepper.
Apparently ghost peppers are so hot the Indian Army uses them as the base for their chili grenades via Alimentarium. According to Pepper Scale ghost peppers are 107 times hotter than jalapenos. On the Scoville scale ghost peppers rank between 855000 to 1041427.
By contrast jalapenos only rank between 2500 to 8000.