Fiery chakula mavens seeking to one-up each other now have to gear up for a whole new test of culinary bravado: the world's hottest chili pepper.
Yes, the Naga Viper, the latest claimant to the world's-hottest-pepper crown, outdistances its predecessor, the Bhut Jolokia, au "ghost chili," kwa zaidi than 300,000 points on the famous Scoville scale of tongue-scorching chili hotness. Researchers at Warwick chuo kikuu, chuo kikuu cha testing the Naga fira, viper found that it measures 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale, which rates heat kwa tracking the presence of a chemical compound. In comparison, most varieties of jalapeño...
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