The Trinidad moruga scorpion is recognized as the hottest chili pepper on the planet — but it’s unlikely we could all agree on the hotness of any pepper without Wilbur Scoville.
Scoville, who was born 151 years ago on Jan. 22, developed a way of measuring the heat you feel when eating various peppers. The Scoville scale measures how much sugar must be added to equal parts ground-up pepper before you stop feeling a hot sensation on your tongue. Since the scale’s conception, the strength of peppers has been noted in Scoville heat units, which are measured in the thousands. A mild pepper being is around 5,000 units; the super-hot habanero is in the 50,000 range. Read more…
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