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.
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