scovilles Scoville units should be legally required

[Ghaleon]

I'm tired of all the food items that simply say "FLAMING HOT!" or "Warning! Very hot!".
 
That's entirely too subjective. If the number of units and it's comparison to the jalapeno is on every package, we can find what suits us and those who can't handle it can see their limits.

 

[BlackFatalii]

It will never happen. No company wants to have to stamp "500 SHU" on their "flaming hot ghost pepper nuclear death chips". See how that "500 SHU" kinda ruins the marketing? 

 

[Ghaleon]

But if the law required it, they'd have to get over it. Plus we could push for hotter stuff.
 
Imagine some Flaming Hot Cheetos that are actually 350k SHU.

 

[Major Pain]

Paqui Haunted Ghost Pepper Chips are a start.  Not straight off the plant Ghost hot but better that a bag of Cheetos.

 

[rlslmshdy]

You can push for hotter stuff all you want. Fact of the matter is extremely hot stuff is a niche market. Most people cant tolerate high heat levels

 

[Ghaleon]

Paqui Haunted Ghost Pepper Chips are a start.  Not straight off the plant Ghost hot but better that a bag of Cheetos.

 

Those are the only chips that actually deliver. I clear Walmart of every bag they have each time I go. Some of the powder from one made its way into my open blisters while I was working today.

 

[Major Pain]

Bet that hurt.

 

[salsalady]

ScottRobertsWeb has a fairly comprehensive list of sauces and peppers and is sorta sort-able.
http://www.scottrobertsweb.com/scoville-scale/?view=all
 
 
everyone always compares to Tabasco, hotter than tabasco....blablabla....
 
 
Tabasco is on the list. keep scrolling down....
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
keep scrolling....
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
YEP! There it is!
Tabasco 2,500 SHU
 
 

 

[Voodoo 6]

The paqui chips are like cool ranch Doritos on the heat scale.

 

[Major Pain]

Some days, their alright.. others.. they need some extra powder, and or some Ghost salsa.

 

[karoo]

I just thought that is why we have this forum.
 
So that we can grow and make our own sauce , salsa, flakes , dust etc.......................
 
...and not buy the commercial stuff.

 

[Ghaleon]

I'm not learning how to make potato chips. lol

 

[karoo]

I'm not learning how to make potato chips. lol

...agreed , but with your own salsa and flakes ....

 

[b3rnd]

What rlslmshdy said. The REALLY hot stuff is either a niche market or a gimmick. No big producer will ever make anything hotter than what the majority of the consumers can handle. Besides, that same majority wouldn't even know what those SHU numbers represent. They'd need a scale comparing it to Jalapeños or something.
 
Edit: To clarify the gimmick part, for example here in the Netherlands we have Doritos Roulette (dunno if it's worldwide available). It has a few 'extremely' hot chips in the package. Almost nobody here would buy a bag full of those hot chips. But because they're marketing it like a game where it's funny when someone eats the hot chip, it's very popular.

 

[Walchit]

 

[karoo]

Wow!
Didn't see this thread going there! 

 

[Ghaleon]

That picture made me imagine the Statue of Liberty with an "I just ate something hot as fuck!" look on her face.

 

[stettoman]

Yeah, I don't think I want the gub'mint diddling with any more than they've already ruint.
 
...they can't even get "country of origin" figured out.

 

[spicefreak]

More hoops to jump through to be a producer for an end result that isn't even going to help anyone, given that Da Bomb's Beyond Insanity is officially about 1/19 the heat of Hot Ones' The Last Dab and still tastes stronger.

 

[Walchit]

Lol they will tell you the shu of this pepper spray