$25k per kilo, most expensive pepper in the world

Scovie, they don't get it, More peppers for the rest of us! Because adding 10 nagas is the same as one. :lol:
 
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Drink!
 
I'm gonna tell Bricklane Curry House to only use one pepper is they Phall challenge. 
 
I think I understand what Charles is saying. Say you grind up 10 or 1000 Naga's, and you send it off for SHU testing. The results would come back at a Naga SHU rating either way. The same way if you send off 1 shot of Jack Daniels or the whole bottle, it would always come back as 80 proof.
 
Did I get that right? If so I think I figured out the miscommunication. We have been talking about "applied" SHU, if you will. 10 Naga's in your mouth will "feel" hotter than just 1.
 
I'm pretty sure I get it now.
 
I'm talking cap content not SHU. You are getting more cap no doubt! Throw SHU out the window. It's just confusing. But anywho.

Like hogleg said. Would be nice to have a content measurement. Like miligrams (average). Otherwise this always comes up.
 
Yes. true. But there are two conversations to be had.
 
Testing and Eating.
 
80 proof is 80 proof. Period. Once you start consuming, the effects are different as you keep consuming more and more.
 
Scoville DeVille said:
Yes. true. But there are two conversations to be had.
 
Testing and Eating.
 
80 proof is 80 proof. Period. Once you start consuming, the effects are different as you keep consuming more and more.
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Scoville DeVille said:
I think I understand what Charles is saying. Say you grind up 10 or 1000 Naga's, and you send it off for SHU testing. The results would come back at a Naga SHU rating either way. The same way if you send off 1 shot of Jack Daniels or the whole bottle, it would always come back as 80 proof.
 
Did I get that right? If so I think I figured out the miscommunication. We have been talking about "applied" SHU, if you will. 10 Naga's in your mouth will "feel" hotter than just 1.
 
I'm pretty sure I get it now.
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Exactly -- This is what he was saying and also that no matter how much NAGA you add the total heat in the CHile/Curry can never be hotter than a NAGA -- Just like no matter how much Jack you add to a Jack and Coke it can never get above 80 proof since the jack itself is only 80 proof.
 
It will be hotter with more peppers. You are saying if you use one naga and one scorpion, the chili is only as hot as one scorpion, even though a naga is in there. The heat doesn't stop building just because of this magical thing called SHU. You add cap with each pepper. Just like the sugar. The more sugar you add the sweeter. Unless it's sugar added to pure sugar. Or cap added to pure cap. And not a pot o chili we're talking about here.
 
When hot sauce purveyors are told their sauce is not hot enough, they add more peppers to their recipe. Why? To make it hotter. By your logic they should just stop adding peppers. There's one in there. Just add juice, no more peppers will add heat above the one.
 
No, for the record I get what JD said about a raw naga (if that's what he meant and not one in the pot), but that's not what this even started as. No one said, if you add a bunch of peppers to a liquid base; chili (other mass) etc. that it would be higher SHU than one raw pepper, of those peppers. No one said that, I didn't. But others are acting like you can't increase the heat of the chili/curry with peppers. That is how you increase heat in chili, hot sauce, what have you. And it seems to be getting confused with some thinking the chili is staying the same.
 
Ah well. I'm done. :) Thanks for dealing with me. I can be a pain. :D
 
Ok I'm not going to debate anything here but want to understand for my own knowledge..

I have a bowl of soup.. and naga chillies measured @ 1 million SHU

First I add one naga chilli pod. When tested this bowl has (for arguments sake) an SHU of 20K. The soup will not measure or have 1 million SHU as this value of the naga's level is now diluted in the soup.

The more naga's I add to the soup will slowly raise the SHU. So there is more heat the more chillies are added.

However..

The SHU of the soup will not reach near 1 million until I've added so many (1000's) of naga's that the soup is now almost pure chillies.

So just because there is one naga rated at 1 million SHU does not mean that I actually have 1 million SHU in the soup. Adding two or more does not mean I have millions of SHU's in the soup.

It just means the SHU is rising, and the soup is getting hotter.

I hope I'm on the right track.

Measuring capsaicin in weight would be easier to understand. Then you could say "I make the worlds hottest pizza it has 20 milligrams of pure capsaicin in it" which would be correct instead of saying "I make pizza that is 16 million SHU" which to my mind is not correct unless the pizza is itself replaced with 16 million SHU extract.

Then there would be no pizza :(
 
If you eat 1 Naga, you just ate X amount of capsaicin
If you eat 10 Naga's, you just ate 10 times that amount of capsaicin.
You just ate 10 times the whole amount of capsaicin than a single Naga.
 
If you TEST 1 or 100 Naga's it will be the same SHU rating.
 
edit: I am not trying to continue any argument or keep this going in circles but Charles and JDfan has enlightened me on this subject. I guess I am trying to wrap my own mind around the two different conversations, eating capsaicin and testing for SHU. Two different things. Thanks for the conversation, I think anyone curious about with discussion should be able to find their answers in here.
 
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