The hottest pepper on earth now hails from England
The world has a new hottest chile pepper, the Naga Viper, which apparently comes from a greenhouse in Cumbria in England. Check out this article from the online UK DailyMail to see this article.
Wonder who will be the first to make a Naga Viper hot sauce? Place your bets now, folks.
Neither Mexico nor India: The world’s hottest chilli comes from a tiny greenhouse in Cumbria
By Jaya Narain
It is so hot weapons experts plan to use a couple in a spice bomb to incapacitate enemy soldiers on the battlefield. But the world’s hottest chilli does not hail from India, Thailand or Mexico but from a small greenhouse in Cumbria. It was created by crossing three of the hottest varieties of chilli pods.
The result is a record breaking chilli that will make your eyes stream, throat burn, nose run and much, much worse.
The Naga Viper chilli packs an astonishing 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale, which measures heat by the presence of the chemical compound capsaicin.
Experts at Warwick University carried out tests on the chilli and officially declared it the hottest.
It beat competition from the ferocious Bhut Jolokia pod – the previous holder – to take the title of the world’s hottest chilli in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Commented at December 3, 2010- 6:42 pm
Let the “who’s the first to make a sauce with this bad boy” begin!!!!
Commented at December 4, 2010- 2:52 pm
Notice he crossed it with the T. Scorpion? How about we test that sucker because I bet you that’s why this pepper is hotter the the Jolokia.
Commented at December 4, 2010- 6:57 pm
where can i purchase it !
Commented at December 6, 2010- 8:01 pm
Straight from the CPI website:
Naga Viper
The Chile Pepper Institute has had many inquires about the Naga Viper, the latest claimant to the world’s-hottest chile pepper, since yahoo and other wire services have run the story. The Chile Pepper Institute can not confirm that the Naga Viper is the world’s hottest. To confirm that the Naga Viper is the world’s hottest, a scientific replicated experiment will have to be done. Mr. Gerald Fowler, the developer of the Naga Viper, is a member of the Chile Pepper Institute. The Chile Pepper Institute has contacted him and asked for a seed sample. If Mr. Fowler is willing to submit a seed sample, The Chile Pepper Institute would grow the Naga Viper and the Bhut Jolokia side-by-side in replicated trials at New Mexico State University in 2011. The Chile Pepper Institute will keep our members appraised of the results.
Commented at December 6, 2010- 8:06 pm
There are many things to consider about “Hybrid” varieties. First, will the seeds replicate the original. Second, will they degrade over generations. A “lab produced” variety is impressive, but it is just that., a lab produced chile. When it is commonly grown around the globe, then we should honor it. Until then, it is just a conversation topic. BTW- there seems to be some small bottles of sauce made from it for sale on the internet. Good Luck! I hope the chile stays on top, and I bet we will have many challengers in the future. GMO?
Commented at December 9, 2010- 3:53 pm
John, thanks for the post!!! I was thinking about the same thing. Is this reproducible (SHU results)? How many generations old is the cross? Is it stable (it takes 5 generations to become stable)? All these questions and more.
Commented at December 18, 2010- 10:09 am
What happened to the “Infinity Pepper” I read an article about it and bought a bottle. it is from England also, claims to have tested hotter than the Naga and seems to have had its title short lived! I haven’t tried the sauce yet, it is made by Fire Foods and is called “Infinity Sauce”
Ed
Commented at December 23, 2010- 9:06 pm
John, thanks for the post!!! I was thinking about the same thing. Is this reproducible (SHU results)? How many generations old is the cross? Is it stable (it takes 5 generations to become stable)? All these questions and more.