Comments on: Debating the world’s hottest chile pepper http://www.thehotzoneonline.com/2007/03/15/debating-the-worlds-hottest-chile-pepper/ As hot as it gets! Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:55:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Tina Brooks http://www.thehotzoneonline.com/2007/03/15/debating-the-worlds-hottest-chile-pepper/#comment-30932 Tina Brooks Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:23:13 +0000 http://www.thehotzoneonline.com/2007/03/15/debating-the-worlds-hottest-chile-pepper/#comment-30932 To the Michaud's credit, they found the very existence of a "hot sauce industry" to be a surprise. They were shocked to discover that anyone other than other botanists would even care about their little pepper; that's why THEY seem to have been silent. Fwiw, the Michaud's have been quite classy about the whole thing. On the other hand, Dr. Bosland has had the chili since 2001, yet left the world including Dave DeWitt at Fiery Foods believing that the Naga Jolokia story was either a hoax or the Indian scientists cheated. Why is that? And I might add... He is claiming to have "discovered" something that millions of Indians and Bangladeshis have known about for a very long time. He didn't discover this any more than the Michauds did. To the Michaud’s credit, they found the very existence of a “hot sauce industry” to be a surprise. They were shocked to discover that anyone other than other botanists would even care about their little pepper; that’s why THEY seem to have been silent. Fwiw, the Michaud’s have been quite classy about the whole thing.

On the other hand, Dr. Bosland has had the chili since 2001, yet left the world including Dave DeWitt at Fiery Foods believing that the Naga Jolokia story was either a hoax or the Indian scientists cheated. Why is that?

And I might add… He is claiming to have “discovered” something that millions of Indians and Bangladeshis have known about for a very long time. He didn’t discover this any more than the Michauds did.

]]> By: Jim Campbell http://www.thehotzoneonline.com/2007/03/15/debating-the-worlds-hottest-chile-pepper/#comment-27162 Jim Campbell Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:02:17 +0000 http://www.thehotzoneonline.com/2007/03/15/debating-the-worlds-hottest-chile-pepper/#comment-27162 Hi Harald! I've got about 150 of them going into the fields this year with many more planned for the next. I'll send you pics for comparison on how they grown here in Indiana. Hi Harald! I’ve got about 150 of them going into the fields this year with many more planned for the next. I’ll send you pics for comparison on how they grown here in Indiana.

]]> By: Harald Zoschke http://www.thehotzoneonline.com/2007/03/15/debating-the-worlds-hottest-chile-pepper/#comment-26922 Harald Zoschke Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:35:10 +0000 http://www.thehotzoneonline.com/2007/03/15/debating-the-worlds-hottest-chile-pepper/#comment-26922 It was clear that whoever would receive Guinness fame for the world's hottest pepper would leave sour grapes with the other players in this field. Dorset claims they started with their version 2001 after finding an extremely hot Naga at a UK oriental store (they have lots of Bangladeshis there). Why didn't they come forward at that time? It was around 2000/2001 when rumors were flying about a new superhot pepper from India, and Dorset could have helped shedding light on it back then. Bosland invested the most work on this subject, so IMHO, credit for NMSU is well deserved I would agree though that Bih, Bhut, Morich, etc. are closely related. And 1,001,304 or 923,000 SHU really doesn't matter - that's all within the HPLC's error tolerance and boils down to "about 1 Million SHU" for either Naga flavor. From our first growing tests though, we noticed differences between the various Naga incarnations - fruit shape, number of blossoms per node, etc. This summer's test crop at various chile gardeners (inluding me) will reveal more details. Possibly it's like with the Scotch Bonnet - different shapes, even colors, whereyever you go, but heat in the same ball park. It was clear that whoever would receive Guinness fame for the world’s hottest pepper would leave sour grapes with the other players in this field. Dorset claims they started with their version 2001 after finding an extremely hot Naga at a UK oriental store (they have lots of Bangladeshis there). Why didn’t they come forward at that time? It was around 2000/2001 when rumors were flying about a new superhot pepper from India, and Dorset could have helped shedding light on it back then. Bosland invested the most work on this subject, so IMHO, credit for NMSU is well deserved I would agree though that Bih, Bhut, Morich, etc. are closely related. And 1,001,304 or 923,000 SHU really doesn’t matter - that’s all within the HPLC’s error tolerance and boils down to “about 1 Million SHU” for either Naga flavor. From our first growing tests though, we noticed differences between the various Naga incarnations - fruit shape, number of blossoms per node, etc. This summer’s test crop at various chile gardeners (inluding me) will reveal more details. Possibly it’s like with the Scotch Bonnet - different shapes, even colors, whereyever you go, but heat in the same ball park.

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