Fiery nourriture mavens seeking to one-up each other now have to gear up for a whole new test of culinary bravado: the world's hottest chili pepper.
Yes, the Naga Viper, the latest claimant to the world's-hottest-pepper crown, outdistances its predecessor, the Bhut Jolokia, ou "ghost chili," par plus than 300,000 points on the famous Scoville scale of tongue-scorching chili hotness. Researchers at Warwick université testing the Naga vipère, viper found that it measures 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale, which rates heat par tracking the presence of a chemical compound. In comparison, most varieties of jalapeño...
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