February 2012 Poll: Do you think a new chile pepper will ever replace the Moruga Scorpion as the hottest?

Scott Roberts February 8, 2012 at 9:35 pm food Digg this Article

name-here It was only a matter of time before something hotter than the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T was dethroned as the world's hottest chile pepper. Now that the Moruga Scorpion chile pepper has become the Scoville king of the capsicum family with some reaching higher than 2 million SHU, will it be knocked off at some point in the future by an even hotter chile? That's the question I'm posing for all of you, blog readers...

Photo courtesy of Jim Duffy of RefiningFireChiles.com

Comments

GoonieNick
2012-02-08 21:58:21

I am so excited to hear the good news! To me I am all for genetic engineering for peppers that can be made to be as hot as possible! This makes the sauces better in my opinion since no extract is needed! Let the sweat roll down my forehead! I love it.

Jim Duffy
2012-02-08 23:47:06

Sorry Nick but at this point in time they cannot genetically engineer peppers. Soy and corn but not peppers.

Ryan Graub
2012-02-09 22:50:45

I don't see it happening unless they discover a mysterious new pepper in some newly discovered tropical island.

Honestly, I don't care either. Everyone is so caught up with what pepper is the hottest that they forget what is more important. Which is what pepper tastes the best.

Ron Savoie
2012-02-10 09:11:05

I love it . Can't wait to get it in stock . Always working on new sauce s for our CHILLY HEADS . The hotter the better .

chris dudley
2012-02-19 17:23:03

So far 99% of GE is done so that plants produce or uptake and tolerate pesticides. Importantly, nearly all GE is patented and privatized. Rest assured, if they engineer a pepper to be hotter it will be done at the expense of taste and it will be full of pesticide.

chris
2012-02-28 03:02:11

Absolutely. Even the Moruga Scorpion is generally as hot as the Scorpion Butch T. The pepper tested was just a very hot one. This year, I'll be growing a very nice mix of some of the hottest peppers in the world. My hope is to get one that peaks above 1.3 million, but only time will tell.

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