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Work in Progress. Take a look at our full article on ghost pepper to see how it really fits into the pepper scale.
Understand what youre handling before you handle it in the first place.
Pepper heat scale 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 Cayenne Hot 30000 to 50000 Jalapeño Medium 2500 to 5000 Poblano Ancho Mild 1000 to. Take a look at our full article on ghost pepper to see how it really fits into the pepper scale.
The hottest ghost pepper can be 417 times hotter than the mildest jalapeño. Lots of people have tried a jalapeño pepper so this is a terrific reference point thatll really help people get how hot a ghost pepper really is. 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. The ghost pepper obliterates the jalapeño in terms of overall spiciness. 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. Double the ghost pepper heat and thats where the story beginsor endsin a mouth aflame. The ghost pepper tips the Scoville scale at a walloping 855000 to 1041427 Scoville heat units.
The Carolina Reaper eclipses it at 1400000 to 2200000 SHU. Ghost peppers range from 855000 to 1041427 Scoville heat units SHU on the pepper scale. Scorpion peppers range from 1200000 SHU to 2000000 SHU.
The hottest Scorpion pepper will always be more than twice as hot as the mildest ghost pepper. Click to see full answer. Whats the hottest pepper in the world.
Find out using Pepper Joes hot pepper heat scale. Based on Scoville Units we rate the hottest pepper to the mildest pepper. Carolina Reaper HP22B Ghost Pepper Bhut Jolokia Habanero Jalapeno Scotch Bonnet Cayenne and more.
Understand what youre handling before you handle it in the first place. The ghost pepper is up to 417 times hotter than a jalapeño pepper. Thats so hot that the ghost pepper is often used as the base for military grade pepper spray.
You are about to cook with a chili thats potent enough to use as a weapon make no bones about it. Pepper Heat Scale. Welcome to Hot Sauce Havens Hotlist of spicy Peppers.
Weve included Scoville ratings detailed descriptions and a photo of each pepper in case you want to buy some or grow your own. The Hotlist is in order by heat Hottest down to the weakest. Let us know if we missed anything.
Click the pepper names or images below to get detailed information. Work in Progress. Scoville Heat Units.
850000-1050000 The ghost pepper which is also called bhut jolokia in its native India is one of the spiciest chili peppers in the world. In fact the ghost pepper is so. The ghost pepper also known as Bhut Jolokia is significantly hotter at 855000 to 1041 427 Scoville heat units.
The ghost chili can be 2 to 10 times hotter so its a significant uptick in heat. 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. Thats definitely a huge difference in spiciness. The ghost pepper also known as bhut jolokia which literally means Bhutanese chilli in Assamese 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. 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. The Origins of the Scoville Scale.