Its official now,the Naga Viper chili was just named the hottest in the world."It's painful to eat. It numbs your tongue, then burns all the way down. It can last an hour, and you just don't want to talk to anyone or do anything. But it makes you feel great," Gerald Fowler, the creator of this spice.Fowler is a full-time farmer and he crossed 3 of the hottest varieties of chilies to come up with this bad boy. "When chilies are grown over here, I think they fight back against the harsh climate and produce even more heat," Fowler said. |
| The Naga Viper beat out chilies from India and Mexico for the title, and was grown in a greenhouse in northwestern England The pepper hit 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale, which measures the chili's level of capsaicin, the chemical that is responsible for the numbing, burning sensation in peppers. By comparison, the next hottest pepper—the Bhut jolokia—peaks at around 300,000 and police-grade pepper spray ranks around 5,000,000 on the scale. Watch out the below video if you want to know more!! |
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