10 Hottest Pepper in the world
It's rare but the fact is some of the people love to have spicy food and few of them belonging to this category love to challenge their limit, limit to resist burning sensation of hottest pepper!. So if you are one of them then you will love this awesome list of head buzzing hottest chili peppers in the world. There are many other super hot chilies which you can find in the internet. In this post we have collected top 10 super hot chilies as of now.
(Note: Scoville scale is the measurement of pungency of chili pepper or spicy foods. )
1. Carolina Reaper
Carolina Reaper is the world's hottest chili pepper( As of August, 2013, Guinness World Records ). It is in fact a hybrid pepper and the cross made was between ghost pepper and Red Savina Habanero. The pepper was first bred by the cultivator Ed Currie, who runs PuckerButt Pepper Compancy in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Initially it taste sweet and fruity thereafter its Devilish effect starts to outburst. Eating it raw will be an insane act !
Scoville scale: 1569383 - 2200000
Pepper category: Super Hot
2. Trinidad Moruga Scorpion
Trinidad Moruga Scorpion was first identified as the world's hottest chili pepper by the New Mexico State University as of February 2012. Now this record goes to Carolina Reaper. It is native pepper to the district of Moruga in Trinidad and Tobago.
Besides from its high heat flavor, it has slight fruit like favor as well making it sweet and deadly hot chili pepper.
Scovilles scale: 1200000 - 2000000
Pepper category: Super Hot
3. 7 Pot Primo
This pepper was first created by Troy Primeaux, a horticulturist from Louisiana. It is one of many varieties of Capsicum Chinese also known as "yellow lantern chili". It is well known for exceptional heat. He began crossing between Naga Morich and Trinidad 7 Pot seeds around 2005. As of 2012, it is at its seventh generation.
Similar to other 7 pots varieties, its flavor is fruity along with extreme heat effect.
Typical Heat Rating in Scovilles: 1473480
Pepper Category: Super Hots
4. Trinidad Scorpion "Butch T" Pepper
It is one of the varieties of species Chinese Capsicum and derived from Trinidad Scorpion. The name was first given by Neil Smith from Hippy Seed Company and first propagated by Butch Taylor, the owner of Zydeco Farms in Woodville. It was entitled with the world's hottest pepper for three years but lost its titled since 2012. The name is derived from its distinctive pointed end which is said to resemble scorpion's stinger.
Typical Heat Rating in Scovilles: 1463700
Pepper Category: Super Hots
5. Naga Viper
The pepper was first created by the pepper farmer Gerald Fowler of The Chilli Pepper Company in England. It was recorded as the world's hottest chili pepper in 2011 according to Guinness World Records. It is a three way unstable hybrid made by crossing Naga Morich, the Bhut Jolokia and the Trinidad Scorpion which are some of the well known hot peppers in the world. This unstable nature deviates the characteristics of each offspring from its parent.
Typical Heat Rating in Scovilles: 1,382,118
Pepper Category: Super Hots
6. 7 Pot Brain Strain
This is not a hybrid pepper like the ones above. It was made by selective breeding technique from other plants that would produce desired traits. David Capiello in 2010 obtained seeds from other grower in Trinidad and selected the pods with lumpy grainy texture as that of human brain and named it brain strain.Many growers have claimed that it is the hottest of the red 7 pot chili plants. There is also a yellow variety of its kind.
Typical Heat Rating in Scovilles :1000000 - 1350000
Pepper Category: Super Hots
7. Trinidad douglah
It is one of the rare and hot chili pepper. It is characterized by its dark brown or deep purple color with many pimples on its skin. It is said that a single pod can spice even seven pots of stew. There is still some varieties in shape, texture and color due to genetic instability in Trinidad hots.
The flavor includes extremely strong smoky aroma with exceptionally sharp heat.
Typical Heat Rating in Scovilles : 923000 - 1853396
Pepper Category: Super Hots
8. Chocolate 7 Pod/ 7 Pod Brown
Also known as 7 Pot Brown, is a relatively new variation of original Trinidad 7 pot superhots. There is still some confusions on whether this variety is same as that of Doughlah or not.
Flavor is extreme hot and unique from the yellow and red 7 pot varieties.
Typical Heat Rating in Scovilles : 800000 - 1853396
Pepper Category: Super Hots
9. Naga Morich
It is native to the North East India and the Sylhet region of Bangladesh. It is also known as snake or serpent chili. It is extremely hot pepper with unique flavor. There lies some similarity with Ghost pepper and Dorset Naga. In Bangladesh, people traditionally impart its heat to their culinary dishes by cutting it open and rubbing them to the dishes.
The flavor includes sweet and slightly tart flavor followed by woody or smoky flavor.
Typical Heat Rating in Scovilles : 1000000 - 1500000
Pepper Category: Super Hots
10. 7 Pot Infinity
It was first created in England by chili breeder Nick Woods of Fire Foods, Grantham, Lincolnshire. He shares that its creation was a fortunate accident rather than the planned effort. It hold the record of hottest chili pepper for two weeks in 2011 then its title was seized by Naga viper chili.
Typical Heat Rating in Scovilles: 1176182
Pepper Category: Super Hots
Conclusion
Some of you might have even tried them. Let us know how wild was your experience in the comment below.
Sources: http://www.cayennediane.com & http://en.wikipedia.org
