Just How Hot Is That Sauce?
The world of hot sauce making is fiercely competitive.
There are competitions all over the world to see who has the hottest sauce and who will hold the world crown.
Sauce has become so hot, that it is now a matter of science to distinguish which sauce is the hottest, because quite simply, the human pallet cannot withstand the temperatures to tell the difference.
The main ingredient of hot sauce is the chili.
This is where it starts to become complicated.
With the advent of cross breading and hybrid plants it is now possible to combine several varieties of chili together to form one super chili.
This is exactly what has been done.
The Naga Viper is unofficially known as the world's hottest pepper.
It was created in the UK by combining together three of the hottest peppers in the world.
Previously it was thought that the Red Savina chili was the hottest pepper known to man.
Peppers are measured by something called the Scoville scale.
The scale is named after the American pharmacist, Wilbur Scoville, who devised this first method in 1912.
The scale is a measurement of the amount of capsaicin present in the pepper.
Capsaicin is the compound found in a chili that stimulates the nerve ending in the skin, in particular the mucous membranes.
To give you some example of just how hot the Naga Viper really is, let's compare it to the spicy Tabasco pepper and the Bell pepper on the Scoville scale.
A bell pepper has a Scoville heat unit of 0, meaning that the pepper produces no significant heat.
The Tabasco pepper leaps up to a heat unit of anywhere between 30,000 and 50,000.
The Naga Viper sits on top of the chart, with a Scoville heat rating of 1,359,000: 27 times hotter than the Tabasco pepper.
To really put this into perspective, the pepper spray used by law enforcement is 5,000,000: only 3.
6 times stronger than the Naga Viper.
But the hottest sauce in the world is even hotter than the law enforcement grade pepper spray.
It is made of pure capsaicin.
This sauce is not made in a kitchen; it is made in a laboratory.
It takes many tons of the world's hottest peppers to distill into just one pound of pure capsaicin.
This gets a Scoville heat rating of 15,000,000 to 16,000,000.
In other words it is three times hotter than pepper spray, 11 times hotter the hottest chili in the world and 500 times hotter than the Tabasco pepper.
This sauce must be handled wearing protective gloves and eyewear.
It was on sale of $105 a bottle and only 999 bottles were made.
This sauce truly holds the crown of the hottest sauce in the world.
There are competitions all over the world to see who has the hottest sauce and who will hold the world crown.
Sauce has become so hot, that it is now a matter of science to distinguish which sauce is the hottest, because quite simply, the human pallet cannot withstand the temperatures to tell the difference.
The main ingredient of hot sauce is the chili.
This is where it starts to become complicated.
With the advent of cross breading and hybrid plants it is now possible to combine several varieties of chili together to form one super chili.
This is exactly what has been done.
The Naga Viper is unofficially known as the world's hottest pepper.
It was created in the UK by combining together three of the hottest peppers in the world.
Previously it was thought that the Red Savina chili was the hottest pepper known to man.
Peppers are measured by something called the Scoville scale.
The scale is named after the American pharmacist, Wilbur Scoville, who devised this first method in 1912.
The scale is a measurement of the amount of capsaicin present in the pepper.
Capsaicin is the compound found in a chili that stimulates the nerve ending in the skin, in particular the mucous membranes.
To give you some example of just how hot the Naga Viper really is, let's compare it to the spicy Tabasco pepper and the Bell pepper on the Scoville scale.
A bell pepper has a Scoville heat unit of 0, meaning that the pepper produces no significant heat.
The Tabasco pepper leaps up to a heat unit of anywhere between 30,000 and 50,000.
The Naga Viper sits on top of the chart, with a Scoville heat rating of 1,359,000: 27 times hotter than the Tabasco pepper.
To really put this into perspective, the pepper spray used by law enforcement is 5,000,000: only 3.
6 times stronger than the Naga Viper.
But the hottest sauce in the world is even hotter than the law enforcement grade pepper spray.
It is made of pure capsaicin.
This sauce is not made in a kitchen; it is made in a laboratory.
It takes many tons of the world's hottest peppers to distill into just one pound of pure capsaicin.
This gets a Scoville heat rating of 15,000,000 to 16,000,000.
In other words it is three times hotter than pepper spray, 11 times hotter the hottest chili in the world and 500 times hotter than the Tabasco pepper.
This sauce must be handled wearing protective gloves and eyewear.
It was on sale of $105 a bottle and only 999 bottles were made.
This sauce truly holds the crown of the hottest sauce in the world.
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