Fiery 음식 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, 또는 "ghost chili," 의해 더 많이 than 300,000 points on the famous Scoville scale of tongue-scorching chili hotness. Researchers at Warwick 대학 testing the Naga 독사 같은 사람, 바이퍼 found that it measures 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale, which rates heat 의해 tracking the presence of a chemical compound. In comparison, most varieties of jalapeño...
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