One hundred years ago, an American pharmacist named Wilbur Scoville developed a scale to measure the intensity of a pepper’s burn. The scale – as you can see on the widely used chart to the ...

It ranges from sweet bell peppers at zero to the mighty Naga Jolokia (ghost pepper) at over 1,000,000 Scoville units! That one is right off the scale! Pure capsaicin rates between 15,000,000 and ...

Using a scale of intensity developed 100 years ago by Wilbur Scoville, Blum notes that commercial-grade pepper spray is 1,000 times “hotter” than a jalapeño pepper.

Spicy peppers are measured on the Scoville scale, which ranks varieties from 0 (a bell pepper) to over 2 million (Pepper X, a specially created hybrid). Here are some of the hottest.

That officially makes it the hottest pepper on earth, dethroning the scorching Carolina reaper — also invented by Currie — which clocks in at 1.64 million on the Scoville scale. It’s even ...

Use the guide below to find out where your favorite chiles fall on the Scoville scale. Scoville scale levels. Mild (0 to 2,000 SHU) Bell pepper, Ancho poblano, Lombardo, Anaheim, Golden Greek ...

Bred by Ed Currie, a South Carolina hot pepper grower and owner of PuckerButt Pepper Company, it boasts an average heat level of 2.69 million Scoville heat units.

This is about as hot as a pepper gets at 855,000 to 1,050,000 Scoville units. It's not at the very top of the scale because that spot is reserved for pure capsaicin, the component in hot peppers ...

If you have to dilute one unit of capsaicin-infused alcohol with 10,000 units of sugar water for the pepper’s flavor to be undetectable, that pepper rates 10,000 on the Scoville scale.

The Scoville scale that we use to measure the spiciness of chili peppers was invented by an early 20th-century pharmacologist. Here's his story.

It ranges from sweet bell peppers at zero to the mighty Naga Jolokia (ghost pepper) at over 1,000,000 Scoville units! That one is right off the scale! Pure capsaicin rates between 15,000,000 and ...