Naga Viper Now Guinness World Record Holder
We have just seen an email from the Guinness World Records organisation that now puts the Naga Viper from The Chilli Pepper Company as the Worlds Hottest Chilli.
So how HOT is the Naga Viper:- The worlds most popular chilli is the Jalapeno it rates at between 2500 – 5000 SHU* that makes the Naga Viper approx between 267 and 479 times hotter, and it is a massive 281,714 SHU’s* hotter that the current Guinness World Record Holder the Infinity Chilli.
The email from Guinness World Record organisation reads:-
“Thank you Gerald.
The record was entered into our database today with the following text.
The hottest chilli is the Naga Viper (capsicum chinense) British chilli farmer, Gerald Fowler of The Chilli Pepper Company, which has been rated at 1,382,118 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), according to tests conducted by the Warwick HRI Mineral Analysis Laboratory, UK, in November 2010.
We are going to send you a certificate in the next few days.
Thanks
Marco Frigatti
VP of Records
Guinness World Records
London, NW1 3HP“
*SHU = Scoville Heat Units
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Gerald Fowler - The Chilli Pepper Company
A new Chilli has just broken all records for heat, at 1,349,000 SHU’s (Scoville Heat Units). The new record holder is the Naga Viper chilli from The Chilli Pepper Company it has been tested at Warwick University HRI, who are quoted as saying “it’s hot enough to strip paint.”
The New Top Chillies
1. – 1,349,000 SHU Naga Viper chilli
2. – 1,176,182 SHU Infinity Chilli
3. – 1,067,286 SHU ChilliPepperPeter Naga
4. – 1,041,427 SHU Bhut Jolokia
This new chilli variety has come about by crossing Bhut Jolokia, Naga Morich and Trinidad Scorpion. The Chilli Pepper Company has used a selective breeding approach, selecting pods for shape and size harvesting seed and growing on.
Gerald is sending the pods away soon for DNA testing, so we should soon know more about this amazing new chilli.
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The Infinity Chilli
Sorry about the headline, but we have just been given the latest Scovile rating for the 2010 crop of the Infinity Chilli
Over the past few years we have seen to worlds hottest Chillies get hotter and hotter.
The one that everybody knows is the Bhut Jolokia at 1,041,427 SHU (Scovile Heat Units), then word spread about the original Infinity Chilli test results at 1,067,286 SHU, which the ChilliPepperPete Naga closely piped with 1,086,844 SHU.
Now the Infinity is back with new results for the 2010 crop, it has a whopping 1,176,182 SHU, that is almost 100,000 hotter that anything else tested before.
A 100,000 SHU increase to 1,176,182 is a massive jump when you think that Mad Dog Inferno Hot Sauce comes in at only 90,000 SHU and that hot sauce is about 18-20 times hotter than the jalapeño which is what most normal people think is a hot chilli.
We don’t expect the heat race to finish here, there seem to be a lot of very hot peppers around the world that have not yet been fully tested, but we think Fire Foods has a winner on it’s hands with the Infinity Chilli if it can get quantities to market in the next few years.
For more information contact Fire Foods at www.firefoods.co.uk
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