[CH] Re: Hot stuff: Add spice to your Valentine's Day withthis fiery menu
chilehead@tough-love.com
Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:46:55 -0500
The Guinness record is held by Bhut Jolokia grown and tested by the Chile
Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University. I saw the framed
certificate when I went down to get some seeds about a month ago.
Dave Anderson
TLCC
> The bhut jolokia was tested by guinness.
>
> Joy and Michael had the Dorset Naga tested on tape by the BBC and scored appr. 1.6 million, but guinness was not there.
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> ------Original Message------
> From: Linda Hutchinson
> Sender: owner-chile-heads@globalgarden.com
> To: Drew
> Cc: chile Heads
> ReplyTo: Linda Hutchinson
> Subject: Re: [CH] Hot stuff: Add spice to your Valentine's Day withthis fiery menu
> Sent: Feb 13, 2009 8:37 AM
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> I am not sure about testing but I think they are hotter. This was really a
> quick look at heating up a meal but a recipe-maker vs a pepper producer. At
> least they didn't say slice jalapeno and carefully remove the seeds to make
> a fiery salsa!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Drew
> To: Linda Hutchinson
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 7:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [CH] Hot stuff: Add spice to your Valentine's Day withthis
> fiery menu
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Linda Hutchinson <lipant@sympatico.ca>
> wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
> Guinness World Records lists the "Red Savina" habanero as the hottest
> pepper in the world. It measured a whopping 577,000 Scoville Units, a
> heat-measuring scale.
>
> Is this still true? Have the Naga's been tested by Guinness?
>
> Drew
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