Fact-Checking the Spiciness of ‘Hot Ones’ Sauces

The team at Howtown closed out 2024 by investigating the spice level (i.e. the Scoville ratings) of the lineup of hot sauces on the popular YouTube interview series Hot Ones while also teaching us about how hot peppers evolved and how pepper spininess is measured. (Spoiler: the sauces are not as hot as advertised.)

Cheers to Adam Cole for Peter Pipering this particular passage:

By picking peppers, they could pinpoint the precise percentage of each patch that was pungent, and some patches were more pungent than others.

Perfect.

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