India Plans Grenades Made From the World's Hottest Chile Peppers

Scott Roberts June 26, 2009 at 6:01 am food

India is planning to use the bhut jolokia pepper - the world's hottest chile - in a variety of uses. Courtesy of BBC News:

India plans hot chilli grenades

"Indian defence scientists are planning to put one of the world's hottest chilli powders into hand grenades.

They say the devices will be used to control rioters and in counter-insurgency operations.

Researchers say the idea is to replace explosives in small hand grenades with a certain variety of red chilli to immobilise people without killing them..."

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Comment Jason
2009-06-30 10:39:15
Why don't they just use the same stuff that's in pepper spray? Doesn't all pepper spray use a capsaicin extract that's stronger than the hottest peppers anyway?

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