Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper Is the World’s Hottest

[TxD]

For all you "Pepper Heads".

From the article:
"The Habanero pepper has a maximum hotness of 350,000 Scoville Heat Units. That's nothing—like eating an Altoid—compared to the mouth-searing Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. It tops out at over two million SHU and has just been named the world's hottest pepper."

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[Carry-a-Kimber]

Read about this pepper the other day. Can't wait to try one, 1.2M Scovilles is pretty painnful though. We always do hot peppers and sauces at work, mostly Ghost Chilis and their ilk. The other day some chucklehead brough 2M Scoville extract..... it was warm.

[OldCannon]

To heck with eating it, I want that stuff in a defensive spray can!

[steve817]

To heck with eating it, I want that stuff in a defensive spray can!

When I glanced at the topic, that is what I thought it was about at first.

[mot7981]

Not the kind of "heater" we usually discuss but very hot indeed.

[A-R]

I'd just as soon eat gunpowder

[The Mad Moderate]

To heck with eating it, I want that stuff in a defensive spray can!

When I glanced at the topic, that is what I thought it was about at first.

I thought the same exact thing that spray would stop godzilla in his tracks.

[RPB]

These peppers are so hot that the team went through multiple sets of gloves during the harvest because the Scorpion's capsaicin, "kept penetrating the latex and soaking into the skin on our hands. That has never happened to me before," said senior research specialist Danise Coon.

Reminds me of a girl I should have married who wore gloves while making KimChi and telling me if she didn't, and made it often enough, her skin would fall off

Now I'll have to drive to San Antonio soon ... hungry for Korean Food (and the Killeen Restaurants are "ok" but the Austin Korean restaurants are like calling Taco Bell "real homemade Mexican" food.
I mean if you can't get barley tea in a Korean Restaurant ... then it isn't a Korean Restaurant, it's American food.
(Ok, I haven't tried every Austin one, but all I tried are lame ... one in San Antonio brought a fan to my table without being asked to ... for the excessive sweating which was going on)