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What is the spicest curry?
Vindalu
What is the spicest thing in the world?
Scotch Bonnet chilli?
What is the fourth hottest pepper in the world?
The current chile that falls into second place on the heat scale of Scoville Heat Units (SHU), is the Red Savina, a cultivar of Capsicum Chinense and variety of Habanero. It's official SHU measurements for the prior World Record was 600,000 SHUs. It was recently displaced from the Top of the rankings by the current title holder the Bhut Jolokia (Ghost Chile) from India which is measured at more than 1 million SHU.The hottest chile pepper is being disputed in some corners, so that makes it a little hard to determine the second hottest.The Naga Jolokia (Ghost Chile) from India is considered to be the hottest by many, including the Guiness Book of Records at a whopping 855,000 - 1,041,427 Scovilles Heat Units (SHU)* which would make the Red Savina habanero second at a scorching 350,000-580,000 Scoville and the regular Habanero chile, 100,000 to 350,000 Scoville, the 3rd.*Scoville Heat Unit is the unit of measurement used to determine a chile's heat. Developed by a Detroit pharmacologist - Wilbur Scoville - the heat level is determined by the amount of capsaicin found in the peppers. A regular Bell pepper clocks in at a lowely 0 Scovilles, and the Jalapeno rates a 2,500-8,000. Cayenne Pepper rates 30,000 to 50,000 SHU.While it does not hold the Guinness World Record (yet), there is also another chile that has been found in some examples to be at an amazing value of1,590,000 SHU. It is called the Naga Morich (Dorset Naga).NOTE: The Capsaicin (the alkyloid that produces the hot sensation inside the chile) is contained in the membranes on the inner part of the chile, not in the corns/seeds as many people think. That is why the stem end of a chile is the hottest part instead of the tip since the membranes are more concentrated in that part of the chile.
