Odd & Ends: Woman eats world record 'Ghost chile'

denverpost ^ | 04/11/2009

[JoeProBono]

It's's a hot act that becomes a world record: "Ghost chile," the world's spiciest chile, seems to suit the palate of a 28-year-old Indian woman. She smeared its seeds on her eyes before gobbling up 51 fire-hot chiles in two minutes for an entry into Guinness World Records.

Anandita Dutta Tamuly performed the feat Thursday, cheered on by celebrity British chef Gordon Ramsay, who was visiting India's northeastern Assam state for a television shoot in his new global food series.

The thumb-size chile pepper was accepted by Guinness World Records in 2007 as the world's spiciest chile. It has more than 1,000,000 Scoville units, the scientific measurement of a chile's spiciness. Classic Tabasco sauce ranges from 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units.

[JoeProBono]

[tet68]

I can’t wait for Fritos to come out with
“Ghost Chili Cheetos”. Does each bag come with
rubber gloves?

[Blogger]

She sounds posssessed - smeared its seeds on her eyes???

[wastedyears]

I’d try it just for fun.

Then again it’s Easter and that’s alcohol talking.

But not to forget, Steve-O snorted wasabe when the whole crew was in Japan.

[mkcc30]

Is it named that because it could turn you into one?

[JoeProBono]

[Hulka]

I didn’t think Guinness World Records was still tracked eating events, as the health risk of injecting all sorts of “edible” and inedible things could kill you and it didn’t show any particular skill.

[Salamander]

“Does each bag come with rubber gloves?”

Asbestos mittens and a living will......;)

[SouthDixie]

Give that gal an ice cream cone.

[tet68]

My sister bought me some Habanero popcorn once.
I couldn’t eat it, and I like HOT stuff.
I put jalepeno peppers on my peanut butter sandwiches.

[JoeProBono]

[TribalPrincess2U]

After the first one, how is one to know if the rest are hot?

[JoeProBono]

[tet68]

Yo, that’s the stuff, handle with care.
Finally had to buy Huggies with Aloe to
deal with the aftermath.

Or is that too much information?

Come ON ice cream!!!

[SAJ]

The Scoville scale is an objective measure of how 'hot' a pepper is, and Guinness still tracks the biggest, wettest, hottest, and so forth. The bhuts are the hottest peppers in the world, no close second, and so belong in the book.

Note that the article said nothing about this woman gaining entry into Guinness.

[JoeProBono]

[MilspecRob]

Wow she looks normal, looks are deceiving

[autumnraine]

I can’t even handle the peppers when making peppersauce in vinegar. On her eyes??

[SloopJohnB]

Perfect timing for my tag-line.

I hear eating this chili pepper is the equivilant of 'culinary sky-diving.''

It renders you temporarily deaf......so you can't hear yourself scream.

[mowowie]

Thats insane.
I once sampled some kind of pepper sauce on a cracker from some outdoor hot sauce kiosk.
20 mins later the stuff burned a hole through the crotch of my levis and left a 1/2 inch crater on the sidewalk.
i felt like i drank hydrochloric acid.

I love real spicy food but this woman must have some sort of X-man ability.

I wonder what she smell like......nevermind.