World's Hottest Chili Pepper
The world's hottest chili was recognized Friday after it was grown in a snow-covered greenhouse in northwestern England, beating competition from Mexico and India. Gerald Fowler, a full-time chili farmer based in Cark-in-Cartmel, Cumbria, crossed three of the hottest varieties to produce the fiercest pods ever known to man.
His Naga Viper rates an astonishing 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale, which measures heat by the presence of the chemical compound capsaicin. The most popular chili, jalapeno, measures just 2,500 to 5,000.
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