Which is the most up to date list with heat scale in scoville units?
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Most extensive hot pepper list w/ heat scale
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I don't really think there are any really good ones that include all the less common varieties that we grow (Scorpions, Douglahs, 7 Pods, Bonda Ma Jaque, Fatalii, etc.), but I could be wrong. A lot of these varieties aren't mainstream so they're very rarely tested, and more rarely put on a scale. I think something like this is about as good as you can expect: http://ushotstuff.com/Heat.Scale.htm .
Thanks Avon, yeah that's the one I've found already as well.
Here is another that is a bit unique and informed.
Mike
http://www.scottrobertsweb.com/scoville-scale.php
Mike
http://www.scottrobertsweb.com/scoville-scale.php
Yeah that one is a bit better, but some of the descriptions are pretty silly. Fresno: "Same species as the Jalapeno but is more ripe and has a higher vitamin content." How can one pepper be inherently more ripe than another variety? That is solely dependent on when you pick it.
Habanero: "the most intensely spicy chile pepper of the Capsicum genus." All in all, a pretty good list though. BTW, it has manzano listed as 12k-30k, I thought they were around 100k. I checked the googles and that same rating is listed almost everywhere. Is that actually the correct rating? If the manzanos I ate were 12k-30k, then I'm a jet pilot.
I don't think you'll find a list that's both complete and up-to-date. And with all of the things that can change the heat level between different plants of the same variety--or even two different peppers on the same plant--the rating scales are really only good for a rough idea of how hot one variety may be compared to another. For this reason, I've actually made my own little table in the form of a text file, based on tables I found at different places on the Internet. How's the accuracy? Well, who knows--but given the wildly varying levels between even the same variety, those numbers should be taken with a grain of salt anyway.
What I did was just do a few Google searches for various things like hot pepper scoville scale, hot pepper heat levels, etc., and that gave me the majority of data. The rest was obtained by checking Wikipedia articles for specific peppers (I know, I know) and then doing Google searches for those peppers (ie. bhut jolokia scoville) and comparing the results. I recall one interesting link someone posted in a topic on these forums leading to an "updated" heat rating table from fiery-foods.com; for some reason, the tables on that site were a real PITA to find on Google.
What I did was just do a few Google searches for various things like hot pepper scoville scale, hot pepper heat levels, etc., and that gave me the majority of data. The rest was obtained by checking Wikipedia articles for specific peppers (I know, I know) and then doing Google searches for those peppers (ie. bhut jolokia scoville) and comparing the results. I recall one interesting link someone posted in a topic on these forums leading to an "updated" heat rating table from fiery-foods.com; for some reason, the tables on that site were a real PITA to find on Google.
Thanks everyone
By the way, I found the two tables at fiery-foods.com.
http://www.fiery-foods.com/article-archives/86-capsaicin/2070-heat-scale-updated
http://www.fiery-foods.com/article-archives/86-capsaicin/105-2001-scoville-heat-levels-reported
Just look at the differences in those ratings for the Tabasco pepper.
http://www.fiery-foods.com/article-archives/86-capsaicin/2070-heat-scale-updated
http://www.fiery-foods.com/article-archives/86-capsaicin/105-2001-scoville-heat-levels-reported
Just look at the differences in those ratings for the Tabasco pepper.
This ones not too bad-you can check out the references or whatever of the stuff they list if you want to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale
They have to be accurate-it's on the internet...
They group too many peppers under the same thing.
Bhut jolokia's aren't all the same,Bih Jolokia,Naga Jolokia etc. are different from where they originate from,growing conditions etc.
Different strains can never be classified , in general,as the different varieties adapted to specific enviornments and possibly crossed with different other varietis of locally grown peppers.
No matter what list you find,it'll never be as accurate as some people might like.
Habs grown in BF Egypt might be hotter than they tested the Bhuts grown there or whatever.
Then you have to deal with who grew what where and from what seed stock.
New pepper crosses and varieties are bred or found so often these days even the most accurate list today will be no good next week/month...
You might find an accurate or semi accurate list of stablised pepper strains but super hots,especially , are a crap shoot these days with everyone trying to get on the $1.00 + a seed gravey train and staying there,hoping their newly crossed hybrid either is stable or they find one to beat it before people stop buying it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale
They have to be accurate-it's on the internet...
They group too many peppers under the same thing.
Bhut jolokia's aren't all the same,Bih Jolokia,Naga Jolokia etc. are different from where they originate from,growing conditions etc.
Different strains can never be classified , in general,as the different varieties adapted to specific enviornments and possibly crossed with different other varietis of locally grown peppers.
No matter what list you find,it'll never be as accurate as some people might like.
Habs grown in BF Egypt might be hotter than they tested the Bhuts grown there or whatever.
Then you have to deal with who grew what where and from what seed stock.
New pepper crosses and varieties are bred or found so often these days even the most accurate list today will be no good next week/month...
You might find an accurate or semi accurate list of stablised pepper strains but super hots,especially , are a crap shoot these days with everyone trying to get on the $1.00 + a seed gravey train and staying there,hoping their newly crossed hybrid either is stable or they find one to beat it before people stop buying it.
