Posted on 03/31/2006 5:53:30 PM PST by blam
Dorset claims world's hottest chilli
By Richard Savill (Filed: 01/04/2006)
A chilli pepper grown in a polytunnel in Dorset has been claimed as the world's hottest.
The Dorset Naga is so fiery that when the owners break the skin to remove the seeds to sow for the following year's crop they have to wear gloves and be outside in a strong wind so their eyes don't sting.
The strength of chilli peppers is measured in Scoville heat units
"It is something I wouldn't eat but some people must like them," said Joy Michaud, who developed the chilli at the Peppers by Post business she runs with her husband Michael at West Bexington.
An American laboratory found the chilli to be almost 60 per cent hotter than the one listed in the Guinness Book of Records. The Naga registered a Scoville heat unit of 876,000. The record holder is a Red Savina Habanero with a rating of 577,000.
The result was so startling that the Dorset pepper was sent for a second test to a laboratory in New York used by the American Spice Trade Association. It recorded a higher figure of 970,000 heat units. The Naga, which is sold with a health warning, was developed from a variety which originated in Bangladesh.
The Michauds found the chillis, collected the seeds and grew them. It was only when customers told them they were unable to eat curries containing half a small pepper that they realized how hot they were.
Mrs Michaud said: "We bought the Naga Morich chilli from a shop in Bournemouth. It is revered by the Bangladeshis. We have all the certificates and believe it is a world record. We will be in touch with the Guinness Book of Records."
Aktar Miha, of the Indis Bangladeshi restaurant in Bournemouth, said: "Most people don't cook with it; they just have it near to them when they eat. They just touch their food with it. If you don't know what you are doing it could blow your head off."
If you think they're hot going IN.....
I bought some Blair's Death Sauce a couple years ago.I swear that stuff could disolve your teeth!
Besides being extremely painful, could eating a pepper like this actually be hazardous to your health? I'm just curious.
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Vanilla ice cream.
Trust me. It works.
At some point it's got to be too hot for anyone to eat, right?
I often wonder about the folks who work in the kitchens where that stuff is made. Do they wear hazmat suits?
If you think they're hot going IN.....
This is why you always eat ice cream afterwards,
so the next day you can holler, "Come ON Ice cream!"
Here's link to the previous hottest chilli.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1398801/posts
This chilli is so hot, you'd have to drink 250,000 gallons of water just to put out the fire
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5/8/05 | James Langton
Posted on 05/07/2005 7:07:19 PM PDT by saquin
I dare you.
Dave's Insanity Sauce...it'll leave a mark.
Drew, see aruanan's post
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1398801/posts?page=102#102
That's the stuff! One drop renders the entire meal unpalatable and the next day I found myself on the crapper with tears streaming down my face.
Didn't Cynthia McKinney eat one of these for the photo we just captioned?
Try this. 16,000,000 units!
But Dave's on a few chips did him in.
Dorset, home of Thomas Hardy.
There is one thing for sure: It will spice up a person's life.
Trust me. It works.
Do you eat it or sit in it?
I don't know about Dave's Insanity Sauce...but I usually snort pepper spray...one shot each nostril. I'm out for a day, then blind for a week.
Come on ice cream!!!!
Yeah right, are you saying there will come a day
when some man, some where, won't say
"Hey watch this"
Try these out!!
When they come out you start singing(screaming) death metal.
I grow the Red Savinas in my yard. Trust me, those boys are the real thing. NEVER put the rinds down your garbage disposal, it's like Napalming the house.
Sticks in mind that we had a discussion about that years ago here and the general consensus was that unless you had some kind of weird pre-existing sensitivity, that extremely hot food wouldn't kill you. Might make you wish you'd never been born, but that's it. There was one faction arguing that stomach damage may result, but it was inconclusive.
They do wonders for your metabolism and respiratory system. I swear by them.
At a temp assignment I had, a guy had a bottle of some insane novelty hot sauce of this sort, with a Scoville rating in the millions. I put a drop of it on my tongue.
I thought I'd been teargassed. Unless you're making a swimming pool full of chili- it is useless.
I disagree. When I was in the restuarant industry you would periodically get the jerk at the bar that can take "any heat". A couple drops of Dave's Insanity in the shake bucket with the regular sauce was plenty to get every one of them to surrender.
Great revenge on the tough guy at a party as well.
It does come in handy.
Maybe you should eat a little ice cream first, then a tiny bit of pepper, then a little more ice cream if you know what I mean.
Try it both ways and decide.
I don't know about stomach damage , I hope not. I don't eat the things, but I had an uncle who pickled every type of hot pepper he could get his hands on. Kept jars of them on his kitchen table and munched them like popcorn. They certainly desensitized his taste, he had to eat hotter and hotter ones to taste them at all. I don't think he COULD taste regular food.
He always had a couple of Louisiana cayenne bushes in his yard. I have some now. My nephew is into really hot food too, but he picked one of those little suckers off the bush and popped in his mouth to show off.
His reaction was incredible. I thought he would hyperventilate, kept putting ice cubes into his mouth, drank milk, everything! He was red-faced and numb-mouthed for quiet awhile. Said it was the hottest thing he'd ever come across.
If anything is hotter than that, it's not a food- it's a weapon.
A friend of mine cut up some hot peppers and the skin on his fingers peeled off. It wouldn't heal. The new skin would dry out, crack, and peel off. He put salve on them and rubber glvoes over it. It took several months before the skin came back normal.
I was checking out Blair's hot sauces, there were some 'limited edition' ultra-concentrates that were in fancy perfume bottles for very high prices. We're talking pure capsicum. It would be dangerous to ever open the bottle...let alone cook with it.
Now that will clean the worms out of you.
As an aside, the Mayor of Casterbridge was one of those things I read as an adolescent that made me think literature had something to say.
Kills cancer cells.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060316/hl_nm/cancer_prostate_dc_1
"Dave's Insanity Sauce..."
Someone brought a bottle of this to a chili feed we had at work a few years back. One smartass, not realizing what he was doing, just drenched a burrito with it. First time I saw him speechless. He made some pathetic wheezing sounds and began to cry. Oh, it was wonderful.
Mmmmm...red savinas. Water is a BAD thing to drink after getting into the 'wrong' hot sauce. You are better off with a dairy product like ice cream or whipped topping. Blair actually recommends rinsing your mouth out with vodka...do NOT swallow in this particular instance, or you will REALLY regret it!
I looked it up. The sauce that I tried was 800,000 SU. I see that Blair's makes a 1.6 million SU sauce.
That'd make you blind, crazy and missing your lower jaw. :-)
I went to Nogales AZ a few years back and hung out with a friend there. I learned that if you get overwhelmed by something spicy- don't drink anything. Have a cucumber slice, instead. I think it chemically neutralizes the problem- but I might be mistaken. Anyway- it seemed to help a lot.
That's right...eating hot sauce could reduce your risk of prostate cancer. Like I needed another reason...
LOLOLOL! Thanks for the best laugh I've had all day!
And that is why you wash your hands - twice - between slicing jalapeños and using the restroom.
"Besides being extremely painful, could eating a pepper like this actually be hazardous to your health? I'm just curious."
I would be worried about my next trip to the john.
"Thanks for the best laugh..."
My pleasure. I'm laughing myself, just remembering.
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