Save some for me down the road Jon. U going to the North Market show in February?

Comment fired by Buddah — December 4, 2009- 10:19 am

Sounds very interesting. Of course when I do a search for it I find nothing.

Comment fired by Erik — December 4, 2009- 2:06 pm

There are many sauce makers that are starting to cash in on the heat of the Trinidad Scorpion.

“Hype” might be a better word?

Nice review Jon. Sounds like a tasty sauce. How is it on food?

Comment fired by DK — December 5, 2009- 7:34 am

Save some for me down the road Jon. U going to the North Market show in February?

I’ll try to save you some. I’ll be at the North Market again this year.

“Hype” might be a better word? Nice review Jon. Sounds like a tasty sauce. How is it on food?

Even if it’s not hotter than the Jolokia, it’s still a HOT as Hell pepper. So, no, hype is not a better word.

Glad you liked the review. It’s great on food! I did my usual pizza sauce mix with it and that pear and Scorpion taste really shine through. I also slathered it on a chicken kabob and it was fantastic, although I shouldn’t have slathered it on.

Comment fired by Jonathan Passow — December 5, 2009- 10:22 am

Hey,

Looks like something I want to try. I went to their site and cannot find this bottle… Any links?

Thanks,
GN

Comment fired by GoonieNick — December 6, 2009- 11:54 am

thanks Jon Again for the great review as always, i only use bout 10 drops of this on food as its HOT lol

its not available yet as Plants still growing and made that with the last of last years pods, But will be availabe prob early Jan as got pods forming now.. have 500 Scorpion Plants being grown for me so will be HEAPS when do have..

i do have a list for people whom want to get 1 when its made as well as the Y7 turkey Slap (the Other New 1 made with Yellow 7 Pods) so just email me if want to get on the list or look on site round Jan..

no hype, the Scorpion IS the hottest thing ive ever tried, my tongue felt like it was going to leave my head when tested a whole 1 earlier this Year, dunno why no1 SHU tested them yet

cheers
neil

Comment fired by neil — December 8, 2009- 7:03 am

Neil, the Scorp is either being currently tested or just had been recently tested by the CPI. We’re all awaiting their findings to be published.

Comment fired by Scott Roberts — December 8, 2009- 1:20 pm

Hmmm

So this Scorpion Pepper may set a new scoville record?

Comment fired by GoonieNick — December 8, 2009- 7:01 pm

So this Scorpion Pepper may set a new scoville record?

It may…which would slightly decimate the nice little industry that has been built up around the Jolokia. But then again it may be one of those Fatalii issues where that since it’s higher in dihydrocapsaicin it seems like it’s hotter but SHU wise it’s not.

Only time will tell now….

Comment fired by Jonathan Passow — December 8, 2009- 7:44 pm

Neil put me on the list for whole peppers, the skobiyan sauce etc.. I’m all in

Comment fired by GoonieNick — December 8, 2009- 8:53 pm

There’s your hype. You got GoonieNick to jump on board just by selling the hype.

nice little industry that has been built up around the Jolokia.

Sorry Jon, but the industry has been around a whole lot longer than the Jolokia. The Jolokia just happened to be the world’s hottest tested pepper, no different than the Red Savina before it.

On the other hand, the scorpion pepper is being hyped as possibly the world’s hottest based on the fact that someone thinks it tastes hotter. I never said it wasn’t a hot pepper by the way, but when I’ve tasted it, I wasn’t convinced it was as hot, much less hotter, than a Jolokia. And yes, my opinion on that is worth as much as Neil or yours, which is my point.

As it stands right now, the Jolokia is the hottest. Until something else tests hotter, that’s just a fact of life. No matter what anyone’s opinion is about any other pepper.

Selling something based on opinions and innuendo and disregarding the facts is hype. It’s that simple.

Comment fired by DK — December 9, 2009- 10:48 am

“Sorry Jon, but the industry has been around a whole lot longer than the Jolokia. The Jolokia just happened to be the world’s hottest tested pepper, no different than the Red Savina before it.”

I know that. But there’s alot of sauces banking on the fact that the Jolokia is the hottest. If the Scorpion is the new hottest, there goes the draw of Jolokia sauces. That’s what I was saying.

Comment fired by Jonathan Passow — December 9, 2009- 11:09 am

And really, who cares if it’s hype. I think we’re just arguing a moot point here, nitpicking as it were. Let’s get back to the topic at hand. This is a tasty sauce.

Comment fired by Jonathan Passow — December 9, 2009- 11:10 am

There are many sauce makers that are starting to cash in on the heat of the Trinidad Scorpion and The Hippy Seed Company is doing a great job of it.

What you said was that makers are banking (cashing in) on the heat of the Trinidad.

Of course they’re banking on the Jolokia, as they did with the Red Savina. They were and are the world’s hottest chile peppers. It’s a fact, not marketing hype.

I wasn’t nitpicking Jon, just commenting on your statement. If it was a moot point, then why was it a part of the review?

And yes, as I stated earlier, this looks to be a tasty sauce. And hot. The chicken kabobs sound like a great use for it too.

Comment fired by DK — December 9, 2009- 1:02 pm

“What you said was that makers are banking (cashing in) on the heat of the Trinidad.”
Yes. I know what I said. It’s a hot pepper. You may not think it’s the world’s hottest, infact, you bring this same argument up every single time there’s a Scorpion review. We get it, you don’t think it’ll beat the Jolokia. Lay off of it, man. You’ve made your point 20 times now.

Comment fired by Jonathan Passow — December 9, 2009- 1:27 pm

The fatalli was the first pepper that took me by surprise, and it hit so hard, so fast I thought it was the hottest pepper in the world at the time.

The jolokia is a numbing pepper with an extreme heat and it bothered me in the mouth rather than the throat than other peppers. Yes, it was way hot, and maybe the hottest pepper in the world as claimed by the scoville testing.

I really do not care what the scoville test comes up with, the hottest pepper that actually scared the f*&% out of me was the Trinidad Scorpion. It ramped up slowly on me until I didn’t think it was going to end and raised my body temperature as the heat increased. Then it churned my stomach like no pepper has ever done before. It felt like I was going to toss my cookies much like the time I had too much of CaJohn’s Lethal Ingestion. It definitely reminds me of an extract in its power, but the flavor is something that I loved, and I made some rather awesome salsa with it that I was proud to share. I only wish I had more to play with.

In closing, I made it a point to say how the heat attacked me with each pepper. These hot peppers all act differently, so what is to say that pain in the tummy is any worse than the pain in the mouth or throat? Does the Scoville test account for different types of heat pain? I don’t know all the facts, but we are to believe all the findings because it is all we have right now. Hype or no hype, I can say this is a pepper you should experience, and then you can decide for yourself.

Comment fired by Buddah — December 9, 2009- 5:27 pm

Quit calling it hype because Scoville ain’t given it a number… so what!!??? I trust Neil, he eats peppers for a living. It he says it’s damn hot, it’s damn hot. Do we really need everything tested now, otherwise it’s hype???

Comment fired by Fergy — December 9, 2009- 5:58 pm

“There’s your hype. You got GoonieNick to jump on board just by selling the hype.”-DK

Sorry DK but if I hear from anyone that is in the field of chili peppers, that there is a possible mention of a new hottest pepper in the world, and there is some realistic efforts, that it could indeed be, then I confess I sell the hype.

When you do an entire bottle of naga soreass in one meal, and still crave something that is hotter, and tastes just as good, then you will experience my dilemma in the search for the world’s hottest pepper!!

Learn to enjoy the hype because it’s the only hype you got!

Comment fired by GoonieNick — December 9, 2009- 6:02 pm

I really like it when we get to hear how people really feel!

GN maybe try cooking with fresh peppers or adding them raw into your dinner salad.

Comment fired by Sam — December 9, 2009- 8:34 pm

My comment wasn’t about what pepper was the hottest. I never even mentioned the Jolokia to begin with. Jon brought that up.

As for bringing up an argument every time there’s a scorpion review, that’s about as fabricated a statement as it gets. The only other time I’ve ever mentioned anything about the scorpion, or anything to do with the subject was in a post of a video of some darth guy hyping a pepper that supposedly is hotter than the jolokia. Again, supposedly. Based on just because someone thinks so. no facts, just hype.

My comment here was only about Jon’s statement of the maker’s intent. That was all. It was an observation and not an argument.

I never said that the scorpion wasn’t hot. If it proves to be hotter than the jolokia, then fine. Then it becomes fact. I personally don’t think it’s as hot as the jolokia, but that’s just as factual of a statement as someone saying that they think it is. That’s why there’s a scoville scale, to bring fact into the equation and to get away from opinion.

The scorpion and some other peppers are being hyped, with no factual basis for their claims. That’s my point. I had my first scorpion pepper over a year ago. I’ve heard nothing but unfounded opinions and hopes since then, and have seen no facts as to the true heat. Nothing but hype. Bring on the facts and kill the hype, that’s all I ask.

Comment fired by DK — December 9, 2009- 10:29 pm

As for bringing up an argument every time there’s a scorpion review, that’s about as fabricated a statement as it gets. The only other time I’ve ever mentioned anything about the scorpion, or anything to do with the subject was in a post of a video of some darth guy hyping a pepper that supposedly is hotter than the jolokia.

We’ve done three articles involving the Scorpion. My tasting of the actual pepper which was the first time you brought it up. The second article was the one you mentioned with the other guy eating one and you brought it up again. The third article was this one where again, you brought it up. That’s three out of three articles with the same argument and they are getting increasingly more arrogant in the way they are being pushed. I’m not fabricating anything, just saying give it a rest.

Comment fired by Jonathan Passow — December 10, 2009- 8:49 am

There was no argument when you tasted the scorpion. As a matter of fact, I only made one comment in that thread.

The post of the darth guy wasn’t even about the Scorpion, it was the “Infinity Pepper”, but yes, my point there was about what pepper is the hottest. Here, in this thread, I wasn’t the one that brought up that argument. You did. My comment was directed toward what you wrote in the review about makers “cashing in”.

I’ve said my peace, every bit of it based on facts, so you can quit worrying about it. I’m done.

Comment fired by DK — December 10, 2009- 12:11 pm

Merry xmas DK have a large one on me.

Comment fired by Woody — December 20, 2009- 11:00 am