May 31, 2011
A video review of one of the world’s hottest peppers while eating it
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The hottest pepper according to Guinness World Records is the Naga Viper pepper. But lab tests show some are hotter than even this. One of these is the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper, which measures in at 1,463,700 Scoville heat units.
In the past, I’ve posted about some crazy people eating super hot peppers, and those were mainly because of the humor of watching another person in (self-inflicted, temporary) pain.
[Teenager eats a ghost pepper. Owner of a hot pepper farm eats a ghost pepper.]
This one is different, though. Instead of eating the whole pepper in a big bite and then freaking out, he munches on it methodically and talks us through the experience with a review not unlike a sommelier might offer about some rare vintage.
He endures the pepper like a champ, but then the real pain takes place after the recording. He says in his written review (in the video description),
Luckily [the "grueling stomach pain"] did not start till after the mouth burn subsided. I attempted to lie down on my kitchen floor to try and calm my stomach. It did not work.
Pain lasted for a good 15 – 20 minutes. Most intense pain in the stomach of any chile I have had… [I]t was just like you swallowed a dagger or razor blade.
1 hour later and I am fine now, no discomfort.
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