Re: [CH] World's hottest chile
Dave Drum (dirty_dave@chillicooks.org)
Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:32:40 -0600
Tina Brooks wrote:
> No Dave, I don't know what they know. That's why I
> raised the question.
> As for tilting at windmills... Why pick up the
> gauntlet to argue the point with me, if you don't know
> the answer yourself?
Mostly because y'all are hacking and slashing away at this thing like
it is all one chile being in play when IN FACT it is about two
different chilies - which I have stated here several times.
Treating the NAGA Jolika and BHUT Jolika as the same pepper is akin to
calling a Red Savina the same as a Scotch Bonnet or Gustoso ... on the
basic that they sorta look the same and come from nearly the same ...
Well, surely you can see what I mean.
The reason I "picked up the gauntlet" as you put it is because this
whole thing is a non-issue once you understand that we're talking
about those different chilies. This whole exercise on my part has been
an effort to get you to recognise and understand that. And to quit
slamming Bosland over something that you don't understand - i.e. that
the two chilies are different
It makes no difference whether Dr. Bosland dissed the NAGA Jolika all
those winters ago. The FACT is that the BHUT Jolika holds the Guinness
Record as World's Hottest - at over 1 Million Scoville Heat Units.
IIRC the NAGA Jolika was claimed to be in the 850 to 900 thousand SHU
range. I could be wrong on that exact number as I am an oldish man and
my memory sometimes plays tricks on me. But, that is the number that
sticks in my head. And, my mouth likely wouldn't notice the difference
between 900,000 and 1,000,000 SHU any more than my sweaty arse notices
the difference between 100oF and 110oF on a summer's day. It's just
bloody hot.
Personally, the wonder of the whole thing is that the denizens of the
sub-continent managed a cross between C. Chinense and C. Frutescens
when conventional wisdom says that such do not and can not occur.
Apparently conventional wisdom was wrong.
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