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The Scoville Scale measures the spicyness of peppers

posted by Jason Kottke   Jul 01, 2005

The Scoville Scale measures the spicyness of peppers. The hottest pepper ever recorded was a Habenero at 577,000 Scoville units, over a hundred times hotter than a jalapeno.