carolina reaper is the hottest pepper in the usa.
carolina reaper is the hottest pepper in the usa.
what is the hottest pepper in the usa?
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the trinidad scorpion 'butch t' pepper was, for three years, ranked the most pungent ("hot") pepper in the world according to "guinness world records". a laboratory test conducted in march 2011 measured a specimen at 1,463,700 scoville heat units, officially ranking it the hottest pepper in the world at that time. one possible secret to the chili's heat, according to a cultivator of the pepper, is fertilizing the soil with the liquid runoff of a worm farm. in august 2013, guinness world records recognized the carolina reaper as the hottest pepper in the world, at 1,569,300 shu.
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both the tests for the infinity chili and the naga viper, also done at university of warwick, were heavily criticized by respected pepper researchers; dr. dave dewitt of the chile pepper institute stated: "with one test, the most you can show is that a single pepper--or a part of a single pepper--had that heat rating. to establish that a variety of pepper is consistently the world's hottest, you need more than that." even the researchers at the university of warwick were surprised by both bestowals of world's hottest pepper as they had thought that another independent verification and proof of cultivar stability would be needed. as it is possible to vary the heat within a strain by stressing the plant through various techniques such as selectively withholding water and five years is not sufficient time to breed a new cultivar, and especially not to stabilize it, the researchers and growers rejected the claims of both the infinity pepper and the naga viper in favor of the trinidad scorpion.
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