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Showing posts with label chili peppers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chili peppers. Show all posts
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Chili Peppers and Scoville Units
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| Trinidad Scorpion Butch T |
“…The Ghost pepper Bhut Jolokia (“bhut” means ghost in Hindi) has fallen from the top. Earlier this year, Australian pepper grower Marcel de Wit unveiled a super pepper, called the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T, which tested hotter. Just two weeks ago came news reports that a Taiwanese farmer, Yeh Wu Shun, claimed his new cultivar is even hotter, scoring 1.5 million units on the Scoville scale of pepper hotness. (By comparison, a really hot jalapeno scores around 8,000 units.)”
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