New-worlds-hottest-chilli

[Compost Pharmer]

I found this while reading the Sun newspaper from London UK. They claim it is 10% hotter then the Bhutt Jolokia.

'The new variety of the mouth-numbing Infinity chilli is rated a whopping 1,176,182 on the Scoville Scale'

'The fearsome Indian Bhut Jolokia, used in searing Vindaloo curries, is 1,041,427 Scoville Units'


www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3131536/New-worlds-hottest-chilli.html

[mogarden]

I suspect there's going to be new "hottest pepper" every year now. Eventually some pepper plant will start to form flower buds that just turn to crystals of pure capsaicin.

[Penny]

Wow.....and bhuts were supposed to be the hottest....dunno if i am brave enough for that one!!

[Pharmer Phil]

Kinda looks like the indian PC1...which was being called the Naga Jolokia at one time..
the infinity...here's a quote:

The Infinity Chilli was tested and confirmed by Warwick University as a eye-watering 1,067,286 Scoville units; the Lincolnshire chilli was bred by Fire Foods' Woody Woods and Matt Simpson in Grantham and is currently the hottest chilli bred and grown in the UK.

Mo...I suppose you are correct...we should all work on crossing up a World's Hottest
below is the PC1 and the infinty:
PC1



Infinity

[Axeman]

A couple of Infinity's outa spice up the football chilli!

[Rita]

At least until

[Deleted]

If they are hotter than a ghost pepper, what in hell will ya do with'em

[jerseycub]

Ruth and I made some home made chili the other night and we added just an 1/8 of a bhutt and it was as hot as we could stand, so anything hotter would definetly be out of control.

[Wrennie]

Do we really need one HOTTER than the bhuts??

[Compost Pharmer]

They will have to stop when they hit the heat value of pure capsaicin.
I suspect, like mogarden, every year someone will claim to having the hottest pepper.

[Axeman]

Sept 10, 2010 11:16:21 GMT -6 Rita said:

At least until

Ain't that the truth!
Where will it end and why would ya need anything that HOT

[Rita]

Something hotter than a bhut would be more like

[mogarden]

That just LOOKS hot, lol.

[Pharmer Phil]

dat's a hot chitter der Rita

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[Axeman]

That's a good one Rita

[Penny]

Hahahaha......LOVE that one, Rita!!

[Compost Pharmer]

UPDATE;
I found this in the London Sun as well:

BRITISH growers have broken the record for the world's hottest chilli — for the third time in a year.

The new record holder is the Naga Viper chilli from Cumbria's Chilli Pepper Company.
The variety is a cross between searing Bhut Jolokia, Naga Morich and Trinidad Scorpions chillies.
Tests by Warwick University prove it rates a whopping 1,349,000 on the Scoville scale that measures the heat of a pepper.
That's almost 173,000 units hotter than the previous record holder, the Infinity chilli from Fire Foods in Grantham, Lincs.
The fearsome Indian Bhut Jolokia is 1,041,427.
Weapons-grade pepper spray is 2,000,000.
The new pepper was bred in rainy Cark-in-Cartmel, Cumbria.
The Chilli Pepper Company founder Gerald Fowler said: "Brits are super competitive about growing and eating the hottest chillies.
"The testers said it's hot enough to strip paint."
The firm has approached the Guinness World Records and are sending the seed pods for DNA testing to claim the official record.



World’s Hottest Chillies

THESE are the world's hottest chillies, with their rating on the Scoville Heat Unit (SHU) scale:
1 - Naga Viper chilli - 1,349,000 SHU
2 - Infinity Chilli - 1,176,182 SHU
3 - ChilliPepperPeter Naga - 1,067,286 SHU
4 - Bhut Jolokia - 1,041,427 SHU

[Spruance]

There was a piece about this on TV recently. A curry house had been commissioned to incorporate the hottest chilli into a curry and they had about a dozen 'victims' lined up to taste the end product.

The chefs had to wear latex gloves and protective goggles and they even had a paramedic on standby in case anyone was taken ill, but I think most emerged unscathed. ;D