So what’s the point of a chilli so hot that nobody can eat it? Oh, people eat it all right. ![]() ![]() I try to avoid eating anything that is also a weapon. That’s about the same as the stuff that police spray on rioters. One Carolina Reaper, for example, has been measured at 2,200,000 Scoville units. And it’s complicated, because heat always varies from chilli to chilli. The Reaper dethroned the Trinidad Scorpion “Butch T” in 2013, and has been challenged recently by the Dragon’s Breath and the Pepper X. ![]() Who argues about things like that? Chilli breeders, who are locked in a perpetual arms race over new varieties.
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