So what's the hottest chili pepper you've eaten?
I ask since I just tried Ghost Peppers for the first time and have to say I was completely underwhelmed! If there was any hotness to them it was so far down on the Scoville scale that they seemed to be on a par with an ordinary Jalapeno.
On a chart I've seen, Ghost peppers come in at between 800,000 - 1,000,300 Scoville units. Orange Habaeros are between 150,000 - 325,000 and I like them a lot, but the hotness can vary so much that even the hottest of them is kind of meh. Another chili I like is the diminutive Thai, which rate 50,000 - 1000,000. Once in a while one can be pretty fiery but again they vary tremendously.
I realize the hotness level fluctuates but after the dozen or so Ghost peppers not a single one of them had any degree of fire that I was expecting. So WTF?
Think I'll move up the scale to some other pepper to see what that's all about. Like a New Mexico Scorpion at 1,191,595 or a Trinidad Scorpion at 2,009,231 or even the Carolina Reaper at the top - 2,200,000.
So what's the hottest chili pepper you've had?
Cheers,
RR
I ask since I just tried Ghost Peppers for the first time and have to say I was completely underwhelmed! If there was any hotness to them it was so far down on the Scoville scale that they seemed to be on a par with an ordinary Jalapeno.
On a chart I've seen, Ghost peppers come in at between 800,000 - 1,000,300 Scoville units. Orange Habaeros are between 150,000 - 325,000 and I like them a lot, but the hotness can vary so much that even the hottest of them is kind of meh. Another chili I like is the diminutive Thai, which rate 50,000 - 1000,000. Once in a while one can be pretty fiery but again they vary tremendously.
I realize the hotness level fluctuates but after the dozen or so Ghost peppers not a single one of them had any degree of fire that I was expecting. So WTF?
Think I'll move up the scale to some other pepper to see what that's all about. Like a New Mexico Scorpion at 1,191,595 or a Trinidad Scorpion at 2,009,231 or even the Carolina Reaper at the top - 2,200,000.
So what's the hottest chili pepper you've had?
Cheers,
RR