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EXTRA! EXTRA!! NEW "WORLD'S HOTTEST PEPPER" DISCOVERED
You heard it here first, folks! The Naga Viper is now the hottest pepper in the world!! Weighing in at an astounding 1,359,000 scoville units, this little red devil is even hotter than the Naga Jolokia (or Ghost Chili) pepper!! Creator, Gerald Fowler, produced the Naga Viper by genetically crossbreeding the Naga (Bhut) Jolokia with a Naga Morich and a Trinidad Scorpion hybrid. At about 300,000 scoville units hotter than the ghost chili, you'd have to eat concentrated capsaicin extract to make your taste buds any hotter!!
Unlike the previous world record holder, the Naga Viper was not grown in India, but in a small heated greenhouse flanked by snow and freezing temperatures in Cumbria, England. To quote Mr. Fowler:"[the Naga Viper] is painful to eat; it's hot enough to strip paint. It numbs your tongue then burns all the way down. The burn can last an hour and you just don't want to talk to anyone or do anything, but it's a marvelous endorphin rush."
The Naga Viper pepper has been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as The Hottest Pepper in the World as of mid-December 2010. As a point of reference, standard jalapeno peppers like you'd expect to find on a sandwich from your local deli rate between 2,500 and 5,000 scoville units. Let's raise a beer (with a gallon of milk on the side!) to continuing advances of gastronomic proportions!!!
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