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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 12:02 PM
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Poll question: Rate your HOTNESS!!
Edited on Sat Feb-05-05 12:10 PM by El Fuego
Rate your hotness in Scoville Heat Units, the scale for measuring the hotness of CHILI PEPPERS. The greater the number of Scoville units, the hotter the pepper.
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 12:06 PM
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1. Notes for the top of the scale
Chemically pure Oleoresin Capsicum tests at 1,000,000 - 2,500,000 on Scoville's test. That's a pretty wide spread.

Food chemists are looking for a more objective scale, though. With a 250% variation in what people perceive as hot, Scoville's "organoleptic" taste test is useful but maddeningly imprecise. Alas!

--p!
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 12:10 PM
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2. Wow, you really know your peppers!
I'm impressed!:hi:
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 12:30 PM
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3. Diet Cherry-Vanilla Dr. Pepper
Ladies, please don't feel intimidated!
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 12:38 PM
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4. Guatemalan Insanity Peppers
complete with coyote hallucinations...
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 12:50 PM
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5. Can you hook me up?
I want some of those!
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Osamasux Donating Member (846 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 01:33 PM
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6. I made some Habanero/Jalapeno/Datil chili last weekend.
So hot I had people crying. A wonderful thing.
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