Top 10 Hottest peppers in the world, the hottest pepper in the world -- Trinidad Scorpion Butch T(1.46 million SHU)

The heat of a chilli is measured in the SHU, which refers to how many times the chilli is diluted in sugar water to prevent the heat from being felt on the tongue. For example, a common millet has a heat level of 30,000 to 50,000 SHU. Xiaobian inventory of the world's top 10 hottest peppers, let's take a look.

The Trinidad Scorpion Butch T, the former Guinness World Record for the hottest pepper, is a type of yellow lantern pepper, a derivative of the Moruga scorpion of Trinidad, with a heat rating of 1,463,700 SHU, bright red in appearance, the size of an Australian dollar coin, and also has scorpion-like spines. The peppers were grown in early 2011 in Morisset, a small town about 89 kilometers north of Sydney.

1. Basic introduction
Previous Guinness World Record for hottest chili. It is a type of yellow lantern pepper, a derivative of the Trinidamoruga scorpion. There are 1.46 million SHU, more than the 1.38 million SHU of the Naga Viper. The peppers were grown in early 2011 in Morisset, a small town about 89 kilometers north of Sydney.
2. Quality characteristics
The chilli, named Trinidad Scorpion Butch T, is bright red and the size of an Australian dollar coin.
Grower Marcel DeWitt sends pepper samples to the EML Chemistry Laboratory in Melbourne for testing. According to the Scoville spiciness scale, "Trinidad Scorpion Butch T" has 1.46 million spiciness.
Scoville's spiciness test is to dilute the juice of chili peppers so that they don't taste spicy. 1.46 million units means diluting the pepper juice 1.46 million times to completely neutralize the heat. The jalapenos used in Tabasque sauce are rated at 5,000, while bird's eye peppers are rated between 50,000 and 100,000.
Australia's "Sydney Morning Herald" on the 12th quoted DeWitt as saying that this is a world record, but like the pepper itself, quite controversial.
In the current Guinness World Records, the hottest Pepper is the Carolina Reaper, cultivated by the Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Company (USA), which has an average spiciness of 1,569,300 SHU (the Scoville spiciness unit) and a peak of 2,200,000SHU. The heat level is comparable to that of consumer pepper spray (typically 2 million SHU).
Another researcher and farmer Mike Smith of the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom jointly developed the Dragon's breath pepper, with a spiciness of 2.48 million SHU, more than the pepper spray used by the United States Army with a spiciness of 2 million SHU, but did not apply for the Guinness Book of Records.
3. Historical origin
The "Trinidad Scorpion Butch T" pepper is named after its discoverer, Butch Taylor. Taylor discovered the pepper by accident.
He was planting "Jonah" peppers when he found a mutation in one of the plants and saved the seeds, which became "Trinidad Scorpion Butch T."
DeWitt's chili plant introduced the seeds and began planting them. Later, they used this pepper as an ingredient to develop a hot sauce called "Scorpion Attack", 58% of the heat of "Trinidad Scorpion Butch T", to be launched at the Sydney Easter farmers show.