I didn’t realize this was over 4 million SHU when I ate it like normal salsa. Oops.
I didn’t realize this was over 4 million SHU when I ate it like normal salsa. Oops.
by canceroustattoo
18 Comments
MagnusAlbusPater
It’s not 4 million SHU, it’s nowhere close to that. Pepper spray is 2 million SHU.
It does looks like this contains extract though so I’m sure it could be quite spicy.
LMB_mook
Over 4 million?
*press x to doubt*
LumpyTheMole
3 million still seems unlikely…tempted to try it though!
alexjolliffe
For the salsa to be 3 million SHU, almost one fifth of it by weight would have to be pure capsaicin extract.
That’s clearly not the case here, so they are (presumably deliberately) calculating the SHU incorrectly.
soshield
Pepper Palace makes the worst products known to man. All those terrible novelty sauces with bad artwork and cute names? Pepper Palace. Everything tastes like vinegar and/or chemicals.
BulgingMoose
Blah, you can see there is extract in there just by looking at the salsa…
NorthStarBoy
Tried one tiny chip full of this. Felt it travel the entire way through my body…
Endured the burn just fine but gave me the hiccups almost instantly.
hpstrprgmr
My FIL got me some of this. Face melted. Eyes burned. Hiccups. Tasted awful.
0/10 would not recommend
dydtaylor
I doubt any salsa is over 1 million SHU unless it intentionally adds capsaicin extract, and even then it would need a lot to make up for all the extra mass of tomatoes and non-spice containing ingredients that will be included for flavor.
Usually, the scoville values that get reported for sauces are the highest values achieved from the plant in lab results, but those values do not correspond to the actual heat of a typical pepper for certain reasons:
1. Genetic variability. The Reaper has a range of 1.4-2.2 million SHU, but all the reapers that get used in a sauce will get counted as being at 2.2 million.
2. Different growing conditions: if you’re growing a plant to optimize for heat, you’ll stress the plant by giving it less water, which causes the capsaicin the plant does produce to be concentrated in fewer fruits and as a result make them spicier, and that’s the process that’s done when you prepare a pepper sample for SHU testing. If you’re doing that, you’re going to decrease the yield of the plants. However, if you’re producing peppers for sauces, you’re trying to optimize the yield of the plants because you want to get as much sauce for your money as possible, even if it drops the spice level a bit. These sort of effects can have a pretty drastic impact on the shu of the products: certain food producers will order carolina reaper powder and have it test at 800-900k SHU. The difference in reported spice and actual spice doesn’t matter because:
3. No one except the spice nerds who already spend a bunch of money on hot foods (and therefore you don’t really have to worry about losing their business) is going to notice the difference in heat between a 900k SHU reaper being used in the sauce vs a 1.4m SHU reaper being used. They might be able to compare a reaper sauce to a ghost sauce and say the reaper sauce is hotter, but this ability is instinctual and relies on them having a reference point thats accurate (which they probably don’t). I would bet that a lot of people use ghost peppers as a reference for 1m SHU, so if it’s spicier than a ghost to them they’ll count it as 1m+ SHU, even if both peppers they’re using as a reference are 10s or 100s of thousands of points below SHU (nevermind the issues with making sure you’re actually eating the same amount to compare).
Elijah’s XTREME REGRET Reserve is the real deal! Made with Zero extracts. Just Carolina Reaper & Scorpion peppers. It says 999,999 SHU. I call it a One Million! Perfect blend of heat & flavor!
Dat_won_fyre
It’s not. It’s made with extract.
Also pepper palace are thieves and liars. Do not support them. They steal recipes and don’t pay invoices.
glamorousstranger
Salsa Jar: “Death by Salsa”, “Hottest salsa on the planet”, drawing of a anthropomorphized pepper screaming in agony with their tongue on fire.
OP: Huh this couldn’t be hotter than any regular salsa.
phildeez316
I got a jar of that waaaaaaay back in like 2007, and yeah it was the spiciest thing I had ever eaten back then. Lasted a year in the fridge and only got like halfway through.
commissarcainrecaff
A learning experience
Conch-Republic
It’s from pepper palace. In reality, it’s probably like 400,000, if even that. They do the same shit Heatonist does, where they put the scoville number of the pepper on the bottle, not the finished product. If this was 4 million scoville, it would just be a dark red oil.
TravellingBeard
I mean…there’s a cartoon chili on it. If that’s not a sign that a white man in a cowboy hat made this, I don’t know what is.
18 Comments
It’s not 4 million SHU, it’s nowhere close to that. Pepper spray is 2 million SHU.
It does looks like this contains extract though so I’m sure it could be quite spicy.
Over 4 million?
*press x to doubt*
3 million still seems unlikely…tempted to try it though!
For the salsa to be 3 million SHU, almost one fifth of it by weight would have to be pure capsaicin extract.
That’s clearly not the case here, so they are (presumably deliberately) calculating the SHU incorrectly.
Pepper Palace makes the worst products known to man. All those terrible novelty sauces with bad artwork and cute names? Pepper Palace. Everything tastes like vinegar and/or chemicals.
Blah, you can see there is extract in there just by looking at the salsa…
Tried one tiny chip full of this. Felt it travel the entire way through my body…
Endured the burn just fine but gave me the hiccups almost instantly.
My FIL got me some of this. Face melted. Eyes burned. Hiccups. Tasted awful.
0/10 would not recommend
I doubt any salsa is over 1 million SHU unless it intentionally adds capsaicin extract, and even then it would need a lot to make up for all the extra mass of tomatoes and non-spice containing ingredients that will be included for flavor.
Usually, the scoville values that get reported for sauces are the highest values achieved from the plant in lab results, but those values do not correspond to the actual heat of a typical pepper for certain reasons:
1. Genetic variability. The Reaper has a range of 1.4-2.2 million SHU, but all the reapers that get used in a sauce will get counted as being at 2.2 million.
2. Different growing conditions: if you’re growing a plant to optimize for heat, you’ll stress the plant by giving it less water, which causes the capsaicin the plant does produce to be concentrated in fewer fruits and as a result make them spicier, and that’s the process that’s done when you prepare a pepper sample for SHU testing. If you’re doing that, you’re going to decrease the yield of the plants. However, if you’re producing peppers for sauces, you’re trying to optimize the yield of the plants because you want to get as much sauce for your money as possible, even if it drops the spice level a bit. These sort of effects can have a pretty drastic impact on the shu of the products: certain food producers will order carolina reaper powder and have it test at 800-900k SHU. The difference in reported spice and actual spice doesn’t matter because:
3. No one except the spice nerds who already spend a bunch of money on hot foods (and therefore you don’t really have to worry about losing their business) is going to notice the difference in heat between a 900k SHU reaper being used in the sauce vs a 1.4m SHU reaper being used. They might be able to compare a reaper sauce to a ghost sauce and say the reaper sauce is hotter, but this ability is instinctual and relies on them having a reference point thats accurate (which they probably don’t). I would bet that a lot of people use ghost peppers as a reference for 1m SHU, so if it’s spicier than a ghost to them they’ll count it as 1m+ SHU, even if both peppers they’re using as a reference are 10s or 100s of thousands of points below SHU (nevermind the issues with making sure you’re actually eating the same amount to compare).
iTs NoT 4 MilLiOn BrO i KnOw My PePpErS
Well if “death” didn’t give it away 😂..
https://preview.redd.it/sg74v8hozprc1.jpeg?width=200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d3650269e2e2aa337daa568489d6b288aad362d
Elijah’s XTREME REGRET Reserve is the real deal! Made with Zero extracts. Just Carolina Reaper & Scorpion peppers. It says 999,999 SHU. I call it a One Million! Perfect blend of heat & flavor!
It’s not. It’s made with extract.
Also pepper palace are thieves and liars. Do not support them. They steal recipes and don’t pay invoices.
Salsa Jar: “Death by Salsa”, “Hottest salsa on the planet”, drawing of a anthropomorphized pepper screaming in agony with their tongue on fire.
OP: Huh this couldn’t be hotter than any regular salsa.
I got a jar of that waaaaaaay back in like 2007, and yeah it was the spiciest thing I had ever eaten back then. Lasted a year in the fridge and only got like halfway through.
A learning experience
It’s from pepper palace. In reality, it’s probably like 400,000, if even that. They do the same shit Heatonist does, where they put the scoville number of the pepper on the bottle, not the finished product. If this was 4 million scoville, it would just be a dark red oil.
I mean…there’s a cartoon chili on it. If that’s not a sign that a white man in a cowboy hat made this, I don’t know what is.