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Worlds hottest chili pepper found...

11 replies · 2,727 views · Started 24 February 2007

Pineconn 24 Feb 2007, 18:56

That article states that the world's hottest pepper is 100 times hotter than the average jalape�o pepper. Yeah, there's no way I'm eating that. :sweat:

GhostOfStarmen 24 Feb 2007, 19:36

Curiosity killed the cat... But this time it might kill me. I really want to try this pepper now...

Glenn the Great 25 Feb 2007, 12:03

Pineconn wrote:That article states that the world's hottest pepper is 100 times hotter than the average jalape�o pepper. Yeah, there's no way I'm eating that. :sweat:

If you eat this pepper, it won't actually taste 100x hotter than if you ate a jalapeno, since your tongue has an upper sensitivity level to spicy food which isn't much higher than a jalapeno. What is significant here, is that you could dilute this pepper by a factor of 100 and it would still have the same effect as a jalapeno.

Toolie 25 Feb 2007, 12:35

I don't know about that Glenn. I can't seem to find much information online regarding a theoretical upper limit to intensity detection. From personal experience, I've eaten habaneros whole and it certainly isn't comparable to eating a jalepeno.

I've got a friend who likes to do extraordinary things as well. An example of this would be a breakfast of scrambled eggs with weapons grade pepper spray for flavoring. If the spray was just as detectably painful as a jalepeno, I'm not sure it would have been nearly as funny to see him rolling on the floor in agony.

I think perhaps you should take a taste test and document for us your personal experience. You should take one sweet pepper, one shot of tabasco sauce, one jalepeno pepper, and a habenero, and let us know what you think.

Glenn the Great 25 Feb 2007, 14:15

I would actually really like to try that, as I love hot and spicy foods. I put hot sauce on almost everything I eat, I can eat jalapeno's whole unfazed, and even drink down any kind of hot sauce by itself.

I do know for a fact that the taste buds have upper limits to their detection. If the peppers are causing chemical burns and damaging nerves, that is a different story.

Pineconn 25 Feb 2007, 23:14

Yeah, I'm sure you have... :eyebrow:

I'm pretty much a wimp when it comes to spicy food. Putting a slice of a jalapeño pepper on my nachos and cheese, I need a gulp of Diet Coke right then. Which is why I stated I'm not eating that pepper. :sick: