How accurate is this chart now that it’s been over 5 years? Any new contenders for the world’s hottest pepper?
How accurate is this chart now that it’s been over 5 years? Any new contenders for the world’s hottest pepper?
by Open_Sandwich_2291
11 Comments
PoppersOfCorn
There are a lot, rb003, the beast comes to mind straight away. Pepper X doesn’t deserve to be there as it’s a myth until a 3rd party can grow and verify it.
AdditionalTrainer791
A lot of talk that the ma warthog is the hottest available. Chocolate primotalii is definitely the hottest I’ve tried it goes beyond any reaper.
JealousSchedule9674
I’m in the process of making my pepper Z the hottest in the world. I just need to inject it with the proper concentrate and take it to an “independent” lab and never release the seeds.
SeauxS
that chart is shit. komdo sucks, dragons breath was started with a lie, and more than a dozen varieties have beat the reaper. only one person knows what the hottest pepper is and due to the money he’s made marketing pepper x and apollo he isn’t saying
Spaceman_India
Byadgi is from my area, it is no way that spicy. I believe it is more on the range of 10k-20k. 30k-50k is lavangi mirchi (thai bird local cultivar) and atleast has good health.
From what we do here, we use sankeshwari (5k-10k) and byadgi for colour and flavour and roshani/jwala for heat.
Side note: Sankeshwari imho has one of the best flavour of C. A. Species.
Regardless of how we all feel about pepper x, even if we take the GWR on face value the numbers on the chart are wrong it only measured 2.7m skoville
Any-Philosopher-9023
7 pot primo?
diluxxen
Primotalii???
Confident-Celery-29
Homegrown Jalapenos can be way spicier.
jboneng
My maybe hot take (no pun intended), since most newer novel cultivars have never been lab verified in regards to Scoville rating, the Scoville rating for those is a guesstimate based on comparison between other cultivars that might or might not be HPLC tested, so we get a compounding error especially since we also have to factor in things like the heat tolerance of the person doing the comparison, and how sophisticated their “heat detection” is, and for super hots, where having the hottest pepper is economical advantageous, we also get skewed measurement, where ex. they test multiple chilis of a cultivar, and take the measurement from the hottest one, and not the average, as an example we can take a look at the Carolina Reaper, the pod that was submitted for the world record was 2.2 million Scoville, securing it the WR, but the average of the pods tested was ~1.6 million.
11 Comments
There are a lot, rb003, the beast comes to mind straight away. Pepper X doesn’t deserve to be there as it’s a myth until a 3rd party can grow and verify it.
A lot of talk that the ma warthog is the hottest available. Chocolate primotalii is definitely the hottest I’ve tried it goes beyond any reaper.
I’m in the process of making my pepper Z the hottest in the world. I just need to inject it with the proper concentrate and take it to an “independent” lab and never release the seeds.
that chart is shit. komdo sucks, dragons breath was started with a lie, and more than a dozen varieties have beat the reaper. only one person knows what the hottest pepper is and due to the money he’s made marketing pepper x and apollo he isn’t saying
Byadgi is from my area, it is no way that spicy. I believe it is more on the range of 10k-20k. 30k-50k is lavangi mirchi (thai bird local cultivar) and atleast has good health.
From what we do here, we use sankeshwari (5k-10k) and byadgi for colour and flavour and roshani/jwala for heat.
Side note: Sankeshwari imho has one of the best flavour of C. A. Species.
For ref: https://www.brighthubglobal.com/post/the-real-difference-between-teja-s17-byadgi-chillies-what-global-buyers-need-to-know
No primotali?
Regardless of how we all feel about pepper x, even if we take the GWR on face value the numbers on the chart are wrong it only measured 2.7m skoville
7 pot primo?
Primotalii???
Homegrown Jalapenos can be way spicier.
My maybe hot take (no pun intended), since most newer novel cultivars have never been lab verified in regards to Scoville rating, the Scoville rating for those is a guesstimate based on comparison between other cultivars that might or might not be HPLC tested, so we get a compounding error especially since we also have to factor in things like the heat tolerance of the person doing the comparison, and how sophisticated their “heat detection” is, and for super hots, where having the hottest pepper is economical advantageous, we also get skewed measurement, where ex. they test multiple chilis of a cultivar, and take the measurement from the hottest one, and not the average, as an example we can take a look at the Carolina Reaper, the pod that was submitted for the world record was 2.2 million Scoville, securing it the WR, but the average of the pods tested was ~1.6 million.