There’s A New ‘Hottest Pepper In The World’ And It’s So Hot That The Guy Who Created It Refuses To Try It

I love spicy food. I love hot sauces. I believe that hot sauce that brings tears to your eyes doesn’t make you a sadomasochistic — It makes you someone who likes the feeling of being alive. Sometimes I purposely seek out hot sauce-flavored chips for snacks. Like I did last night:

The hottest sauce in my current collection is Rapture Trinidad Scorpion Pepper Hot Sauce from TorchBearer Sauces. It’s considered the hottest “natural” sauce in the world with a blend of natural ghost chili and Trinidad scorpion peppers. My tolerance for hot sauce is hotter than most and even a very tiny dab of Rapture knocks me on my feet, screaming for milk.

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There’s now a pepper that blasts the previous “world’s hottest pepper” — The Carolina Reaper — out of the stratosphere. It’s called the Dragon’s Breath chili and it boasts a Scoville rating of 2.48 million, compared to the Carolina Reaper a 1.5 million.

According to the BBC, the grower doesn’t think it can be eaten, that’s how hot it is. Instead, he sees its potential in the medical world:

Mr Smith has been growing plants for about eight years and the Dragon’s Breath chilli was born out of a trial of new plant food developed by Nottingham Trent University which aims to increase the quality and resistance of plants.

Mr Smith said the chilli was grown on a tree about 3ft (0.9m) high.

He said he had not tasted it as it “would not be a pleasant sensation,” adding, “the heat is beyond”.

Describing his previous experience of tasting hot chillies, he described the heat as “building up and up” about half an hour after biting into them.

“You should use common sense at the end of the day,” he said.

Mr Smith suggested the chilli could be used an alternative to anaesthetic in third world countries – which do not have access to or the money for the drug – as the oil from it is capable of numbing the skin.

It could also be useful on people who are allergic to anaesthetic.

Is it just me or do his cautious words feel like a challenge? No doubt some idiot will get their hands on this to try it in the next few months. Think about how #viral that #content will go.

It’s going to take “Do it for the views” to a whole ‘nother level when it actually happens.