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In 2013 the Carolina Reaper was named by the Guinness Book of World Records as the worlds hottest pepper and peaks at 2200000 SHU. But since then peppers like the ghost pepper Carolina Reaper and pepper x have taken reign as the hottest pepper.
It is always assumed that two hot people will make hot.
How hot is the ghost pepper on the scale. See where the Ghost Pepper ranks on this Scoville chart. 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.
Sure its easy to say that a ghost pepper Bhut Jolokia is around 1000000 Scoville heat units but what does that mean in reality. How hot is a ghost. 473 rijen How hot is a ghost pepper on the Scoville scale.
TheBhut Jolokia Pepper commonly. Use this guide to find out how many Scoville Units each chili has from our hot pepper scale or also known as Pepper Joes Heat Scale Use our 1-10 heat rating from your Pepper Joes seed label to find out how hot your pepper might just be. Ghost peppers are one of the hottest chiles in the world so consider yourself warned.
Theyre five times as hot as Habanero peppers and thats some heat. Youll also see them referred to as Bhut Jolokia as they are originally from Northeast India. Heres where they land on the Scoville scale.
154 rijen Ghost Pepper. In 2013 the Carolina Reaper was named by the Guinness Book of World Records as the worlds hottest pepper and peaks at 2200000 SHU. Hot Pepper Scale in Scoville Units On the Scoville scale different pepper varieties are categorized into heat ratings with 0 being the mildest and 12 representing the highest heat.
Ghost Pepper Bhut Jolokia 1041427 SHU The Ghost Pepper is the most famous Super Hot due to the amount of press it has received in the past. It exploded in popularity on YouTube and other social sites where pepperheads ate whole Ghost Peppers as part of a challenge. This is the first pepper to scientifically test over 1 million scovilles.
As you can see in the previous list this small red pepper with its stinger tail round out the top of the Scoville Scale at 22 million SHU. Bhut jolokia ghost pepper. Heres a glance at heat levels for some popular hot peppers according to the Scoville scale.
Ghost Extremely Hot over 1000000 Habanero Extra Hot 100000 to 300000 Tabasco Hot 30000 to 50000. Jalapeño peppers range from 2500 to 8000 on the Scoville scale while ghost peppers aka. The Bhut Jolokia weight in between 855000 1041427 Scoville heat units.
Thats like a feather-weight going up against a sumo wrestler. At about 2 million SHUs the Reaper rates according to Chili Pepper Madness somewhere between 175 and 880 times hotter than your garden variety jalapeño. If youre asking yourself why someone would eat something that hot its a legitimate question.
I think that theres a sort of a psychological addiction going on. True or false. Ghost peppers can reach over a million Scoville heat units on the Scoville scale.
But since then peppers like the ghost pepper Carolina Reaper and pepper x have taken reign as the hottest pepper. Most of these are hybrids of extremely hot peppers morphed together to make even hotter peppers. Thats kind of how people work too.
It is always assumed that two hot people will make hot. 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.