Re: [CH] India now claims to have world's hottest chile
Oatmeal Jack (oat@intrepid.net)
Tue, 05 Sep 2000 18:46:45 -0400
Did they actually have a Red Savina to run the test on at the same time or
did they just surf the net and find 577? I have had Indians eat my Savinas
and tell me that they had hotter peppers back home so maybe this is one of
them. Guess we will just have to get some seeds and feel the heat of both.
Oatmeal Jack
>According to an AP story dated Sept. 5, India claims to have the world's
>hottest chile. S.C. Das, deputy director of the
>Defense Research Laboratory in the garrison town of Tezpur, said the
>Naga Jolokia chile pepper grown in northeast India is hotter than
>the previous record-holder, the Red Savina Habanero.
>
>Das said the Naga Jolokia measured 855 Scoville units, compared to 577
>for the Habanero in the tests, completed last week.
>
>The Naga Jolokia, which grows to about 2 inches long and to a thickness of
>about half an inch in the hilly terrain of Assam, has been a staple of the
>diet of locals for centuries, said AP.
>
>Das said that the researchers at the lab 110 miles north of Assam's
>capital, Gauhati, had measured the pungency of the two chilis in Scoville
>units - the international gauge for food spiciness.
>
>
>Carlos
>Albuquerque
>
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