The Scoville scale is a way of measuring a food (usually a chilli pepper)’s spiciness, using Scoville heat units as the marker. It does this by assessing the concentration of capsaicinoids in the chilli that needs to be diluted before it's no longer detectable. Kimchi Jjigae A staple of ...
Instead, Respiro del Diavolo's star ingredient is much scarier: Carolina Reaper peppers, some of the hottest in the world. The result is spicy, to say the least. Reapers have a Scoville level of 1,569,300 SHU, making them more than a hundred times hotter than a jalapeño. While a ...
Off the charts hot Imagine eating a jalapeno… now imagine eating 900 of them at once. That’s a close approximation to the sensation you’ll have biting into the World’s Hottest Chocolate Bar. At Vat19, we’ve sampled some of the hottest food on the planet, and this candy is still...