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I quote from the article:
“World’s Hottest Hot Sauce is a Pepper Extract That Can Kill”
Locked in a crystal bottle sealed with wax and a tiny skull, Mr Lazar’s lip-scorching concoction is pure capsaicin – the chemical that gives habanero and jalapeno peppers their atomic heat. Blair Lazar claims to try his sauce is to encounter ‘pure heat’ His “16 Million Reserve”, which is released to the public in 2006, is the brass ring of hot sauces, the most blistering pepper extract that chemistry can create. It is 30 times hotter than the hottest pepper, the Red Savina from Mexico, and 8,000 times more powerful than Tabasco sauce.
To put the smallest dot on the tip of your tongue is to encounter “pure heat”, Mr Lazar says. Although capsaicin does not actually burn – it tricks your brain into thinking that you are in pain by exciting nerve endings in your mouth – some health specialists think that it might kill an asthmatic or hospitalize a user who touched his eyes or different susceptible parts of the anatomy.” (more)
Yow, baby! I mean, fun’s fun and all but who’d want to go here?
Best wishes!
November 17th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
i really dont think any # on the scoville scale will kill you… might burn of all of your taste receptors.. but certainly not death
November 18th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Apparently, 16 Million
I quote from the article:
“World’s Hottest Hot Sauce is a Pepper Extract That Can Kill”
Locked in a crystal bottle sealed with wax and a tiny skull, Mr Lazar’s lip-scorching concoction is pure capsaicin – the chemical that gives habanero and jalapeno peppers their atomic heat. Blair Lazar claims to try his sauce is to encounter ‘pure heat’ His “16 Million Reserve”, which is released to the public in 2006, is the brass ring of hot sauces, the most blistering pepper extract that chemistry can create. It is 30 times hotter than the hottest pepper, the Red Savina from Mexico, and 8,000 times more powerful than Tabasco sauce.
To put the smallest dot on the tip of your tongue is to encounter “pure heat”, Mr Lazar says. Although capsaicin does not actually burn – it tricks your brain into thinking that you are in pain by exciting nerve endings in your mouth – some health specialists think that it might kill an asthmatic or hospitalize a user who touched his eyes or different susceptible parts of the anatomy.” (more)
Yow, baby! I mean, fun’s fun and all but who’d want to go here?
Best wishes!
November 21st, 2009 at 6:53 am
To me any of them will kill me. I don’t touch hot spicy food.
November 21st, 2009 at 8:07 am
Scoville rating Type of pepper
15,000,000–16,000,000 Pure capsaicin[4]
9,100,000 Nordihydrocapsaicin
2,000,000–5,300,000 Standard US Grade pepper spray [5]
855,000–1,041,427 Naga Jolokia [6][7][8][9]
350,000–577,000 Red Savina Habanero[10]
100,000–350,000 Habanero Chile [11]
100,000–350,000 Scotch Bonnet [11]
100,000–200,000 Jamaican Hot Pepper [5]
50,000–100,000 Thai Pepper, Malagueta Pepper, Chiltepin Pepper
30,000–50,000 Cayenne Pepper, Ají pepper [11], Tabasco pepper
10,000–23,000 Serrano Pepper
7,000–8,000 Tabasco Sauce (Habanero)[12]
5,000–10,000 Wax Pepper
2,500–8,000 Jalapeño Pepper
2,500–5,000 Tabasco Sauce (Tabasco pepper) [12]
1,500–2,500 Rocotillo Pepper
1,000–1,500 Poblano Pepper
600–800 Tabasco Sauce (Green Pepper) [12]
500–1000 Anaheim pepper
100–500 Pimento [5], Pepperoncini
0 No heat, Bell pepper [5]