3. Don’t Try the Moruga Scorpion Pepper Without a Glass of Milk Handy
Trinidad has recently invented the world’s hottest pepper, the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper, which clocks in at about 1.4 million SHU on the Scoville scale, the international measure of shale pepper heat. To give you a point of reference, the Scorpion outpaces its closest competition, the Ghost Pepper, by 400,000 SHU. A cayenne pepper clocks in about 50,000 SHU on a potent day. The Scorpion is hot. Beware.
