Tuesday, December 14, 2010

New, hot, and delicious -- the Naga Viper

Very hot peppers are used all over the world. They are frequently found spicing Indian and Spanish cuisine. A man with a greenhouse in England has created the most recent hottest pepper. Jalapeno peppers are the world’s most well-known, however the Naga Viper is over 200 times hotter. Some have gone as far as taking out a pay day loan just to import this pepper.

England experiencing Naga Viper developed

As the owner of both a pub and the Chili Pepper Business, Gerald Fowler has long been breeding scorching chilies. By crossing three very hot chilies, Fowler was able to create the Naga Viper pepper. The three peppers within the Naga Viper are the Bhut Jolokia pepper, the Naga Norich and the Trinidad Scorpion plants. This crossbreeding took him several years but was all done in his tiny 8-by-16-foot greenhouse. Fowler believes that by developing the peppers in a harsher environment like England’s, he helps encourage spicier peppers because they have to “fight back.”.

Rating the spice of the Naga Viper

The Scoville scale is used to rate chili peppers and their heat. The amount of capsicum in a pepper is being measured with this. Capsicum is in peppers and pepper spray. The heat in them is attributed to this. The last record holder took it in 2007. The rating of 1,001,304 is what the Ghost Pepper had on the Scoville scale. The Naga Viper was tested by Warwick university and is rated at 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale. What police officers carry is mace spray. On the Scoville scale, it had about 5 million.

What you are able to do with Napa Viper

The Naga Viper was developed by Fowler for one original reason. Making really scorching curry was that original reason. Curry was explained by Fowler. He said it should be “hot enough to remove paint … numbs your tongue and burns all the way down.” However, the endorphin rush is as good as the spice is bad. You will find other ways you can use the Naga Viper, although it is in curries that consumers have to sign a release form before eating. The Indian govt is researching the possibility of purchasing the Naga Viper for 2 utilizes – to help farmers replace opium poppy as a cash crop, and to create a non-lethal “pepper bomb.”.

Citations

Daily Mail

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1335043/Worlds-hottest-chilli-grown-tiny-Cumbrian-greenhouse.html

Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale#cite_note-bosland-10



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