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Feb. 16th, 2007 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
'Hottest chilli sauce' launched.
Blair Lazar has now done a "16 Million Reserve", registered at 6,000,000 Scoville. Since his 2 A.M. sauce is already insanely hot at 600,000, this would seem over the top.
Happily for the safety of the world, it's limited edition - 999 bottles of an ounce each, or a total production of just over 62 pounds. At $300 per ounce, that's also pretty expensive, but given that it's not actually a sauce at all - it's purified, crystalline capsaicin for use as a food additive - this should be the end of the escalating heat wars.
EDIT: as
drplokta points out, this is actually hardly news, being an article that's bubbled back onto the BBC site front page by dint of suddenly being emailed a lot.
EDIT: That may be because of this new article: Chillies heated ancient cuisine, apparently showing Ancient Ecuadorans of 400BC using the spice.
Blair Lazar has now done a "16 Million Reserve", registered at 6,000,000 Scoville. Since his 2 A.M. sauce is already insanely hot at 600,000, this would seem over the top.
Happily for the safety of the world, it's limited edition - 999 bottles of an ounce each, or a total production of just over 62 pounds. At $300 per ounce, that's also pretty expensive, but given that it's not actually a sauce at all - it's purified, crystalline capsaicin for use as a food additive - this should be the end of the escalating heat wars.
EDIT: as
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EDIT: That may be because of this new article: Chillies heated ancient cuisine, apparently showing Ancient Ecuadorans of 400BC using the spice.
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Date: 2007-02-16 11:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-16 11:53 am (UTC)Edit applied.
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Date: 2007-02-16 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-16 11:57 am (UTC)It could be that they're wonderng how hot they could get the "sauce" now. :)
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Date: 2007-02-16 12:03 pm (UTC)Surely the Dorset Naga just has a higher proportion of capsaicin - and something which is already the purified chemical shouldn't get any hotter just because of a more concentrated source material.
(Though Scoville testing above a certain level gets very silly - you pretty well have to use low level homeopathic techniques to drop the concentration far enough.)
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Date: 2007-02-16 12:58 pm (UTC)Yes, good point. Never actually thought about that did I? ;)
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Date: 2007-02-16 01:02 pm (UTC)("That tritium shure packs a mean punch")