Some crazy info about the Bhut Jolokia chile pepper
Here’s a snippet from a great article from one of our blogger brethren. You might not believe it, but they report on someone who will eat 60 (yes, sixty) bhut jolokia peppers in one sitting. Hope she has her asbestos toilet paper available later!!
Bhut Jolokia – World’s Hottest Chilli
8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide might be unfamiliar to you as a chemical compound, but when reincarnated in the form of a chilli, it is guranteed to give you ‘that burning sensation’. The degree of ‘hotness’ of chillis can infact be measured in units, thanks to the Scoville scale developed by Wilbur Scoville in 1912.
In 1989, Frank Garcia, one of the founders of GNS Spices in Walnut, California discovered a plant with a red fruit in a field of Orange Habaneros. Subsequently, in 1994, Garcia’s Red Savina set a world record for heat at 577,000 Scoville units and was enlisted in the Guinness Book of World Records as The Hottest Chilli in the world.
Click here to read the rest of the source article from The Great Indian Mutiny
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Commented at July 18, 2007- 5:18 am
AMazing. The first Naga pods in our backyard just turned orange. I cut one open, tried it and could believe the heat that gets you instantly and cuts like a knide. But now get this:
17-month old toddler Jayanta Lahan from Romai, an Assamse village about 500 km east Guwahati is said to munch Bhut Jolikia pods all the time without any problems at all. One day he ate about 50 Bhut Jolokias within 3-4 hours, according to his dad – no tears or stomach problems. More here, in India Times:
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Some people seem to lack vanilloid receptors, or pain transmission to their brain doesn’t work. Wonder if they could drink boiling-hot coffee.
–Harald
Commented at August 17, 2007- 11:31 pm
hi the naga bhut jolokia – worlds hottest pepper- is now in the U.S. montego bay trading company is ready to sell this pepper in ground form and a pepper sauce beginning about september first. let us hear from you. tom
Commented at January 12, 2008- 8:53 am
its not hot at all
its taste like sugar
not reccomented