New World’s Hottest Pepper Can Strip Paint, Could Become a Weapon
- Posted on December 4, 2010 at 8:50pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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A Briton recently tried to taste test the Naga Viper. It didn't end well (see the video below).
A new breed of chili peppers is so hot it can strip paint and has some developers considering its potency for use in new weapons.
From the Daily Mail:
It was created by crossing three of the hottest varieties of chilli pods known to man.
The result is a record breaking chilli that will make your eyes stream, throat burn, nose run and much, much worse.
The Naga Viper chilli packs an astonishing 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale, which measures heat by the presence of the chemical compound capsaicin.
Experts at Warwick University carried out tests on the chilli and officially declared it the hottest.
It beat competition from the ferocious Bhut Jolokia pod – the previous holder – to take the title of the world’s hottest chilli in the Guinness Book of World Records.
The pepper is the creation of British chili pepper farmer Gerald Fowler.
“It numbs your tongue, then burns all the way down,” he told the Daily Mail. “It can last an hour, and you just don’t want to talk to anyone or do anything.”
The world's hottest chili peper, the Naga Viper (Photo: Daily Mail)
The pepper is so hot Fowler, who owns a local pub, makes customers sign a disclaimer stating they are “of sound body and mind” before sampling a curry cooked with Naga Viper. Only two have managed to finish the whole dish.
The Daily Mail reports the Indian Government has been examining ways of using chillies such as the Naga Viper to produce a spice bomb that can incapacitate enemy soldiers without killing them.
Earlier this year it created an 81-mm tear-gas like grenade which could be thrown by a soldier.
According to the paper, the mix of spices and phosphorous chokes the enemy’s respiratory tract, leaving targets barely able to breathe for a time.
A pepper connoisseur recently reviewed the pepper on YouTube, recording himself eating the fiery pod. It was so hot it made him vomit:
[The actual ingestion starts at 2:30]
“It’s hot enough to strip paint,” Fowler said.
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Comments (74)
AntiGov
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 3:24amRe: the my previous post.
Needless to say, I had to remove my contacts immediately and for days afterward my eyes were extremely photosensitive couldn’t wear my contacts.
Report Post »Bart_Cubbins
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 2:51pmThe same thing happened to me! I bought naga viper pepper seeds at burnmegood.com & could hardly eat the peppers. Definitely the world’s hottest pepper! (Or at least from what I’ve experienced!). Bhut jolokia and trinidad scorpion are ridiculous too. Excellent in small doses, but nothing I could handle eating on a daily basis. I prefer Lizano sauce and the (relatively) mild varieties.
Report Post »AntiGov
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 3:20amA bad case of acid reflux, I’d say. Hilarious!
Reminds me of the time I inserted my contact lenses after planting some habenero pepper seed. I handled the seeds and washed my hands thoroughly. Hours later I washed my hands again before putting my contacts in. It burnt like hell….
Report Post »huntee
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 2:08amI just spent an hour on you tube watching this guy‘s video’s and others eating the world’s hottest chillies and sauces, been a while since I laughed that hard.
Report Post »SIXFRIGATES
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 1:35amUnbeknownst to the rest of us, he had two 20 lb. weights clipped to his testicles at the same time.. BRAVO!….BRAVO!!!
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 12:50amI’ve heard that if you take the juice from those things and use as an eyedrop that it is a very effective cure for dry eyes.
Report Post »JohnnyJT
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 12:20amI’d like to see Adam Richman from Man Vs Food
Report Post »munch the those Naga Vipers.
Nigel2
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 12:57pmHe is an animal!
Report Post »Conserving Ink
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 11:47pmI’ll stick to my jalapeños. I know they are low on the totem pole as far as peppers go, but I like the taste and they keep my sinuses healthy.
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Nigel2
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 11:59pmI agree, and just like the scraping paint reference, they do an amazing job of cleaning out the colon. Eat too much red meat? Eat a nice heavily peppered burrito from time to time.
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 11:38pmRemember that scene when Julia Roberts says, “I‘ve got moves you’ve never seen”? That will also strip paint, and could become a weapon.
And do we have a right to chose organic, rather than synthetic, pain relievers? She relieves my pain.
Report Post »RoBoTech
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 3:15amThat one’s good, but to show my age, the dance scene by Jamie Lee Curtis in “True Lies” strips my “paint” every time I see it.
Report Post »Never gets old.
While I love hot food, and I cook at home, I am like some others, the ordeal of eating food so hot you can’t taste the rest of the meal is not for me.
But, living in Pueblo CO for 9 years definitely acclimated me to the hotter peppers. I would buy pecks of different peppers that were roasted and peeled right at the roadside stand.
I really miss the Tamales I used to get there too. Home made and I would buy 3-4 dozen at a time.
I will roast, de-vein/seed, and peel Jalapenos, and use one per steak with butter and onion. Depending on when the Japs are raised, they may surprise you at how hot, or mild. But, I can smell how hot they are. Some people can’t.
New Mexico style green chile is a staple at my house, and I use it on everything. Japs and Annehiems, or, when I can get them, Pueblo chilies. A genetic mix of the former two chilies.
I also make a Guamanian dish with roasted japs, soy sauce, lemon juice that you marinate sliced onions in. It’s good for a week and make EVERYTHING taste good, even fried spam (spam was a staple in my Military days, too broke for real meat).
Max jones
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:12amROBO….I grew up in Pueblo and have been telling folks just how special the Mexican food is there. Never have found its equal. The politics suck, but the foods is excellent.
Report Post »Katana9Q
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 11:22pmWhat’s the chance the U.S. might consider developing the weapon potential of this pepper to wipe out the drug cartels and their marijuana and cocaine crops? NAH!!!
Report Post »rdk
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 11:22pmDon’t give Obama any ideas. He will trade in our nukes on pepper sprays.
Report Post »Insipid
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 11:12pmOn my previous comment, peppers over 250k scovilles are much better as additives than to eat raw, they actually do have a tolerable flavor while giving a solid burn. Give this one a spin blaze guys then talk about hot.
http://www.hotsauceblog.com/hotsaucearchives/blairs-16-million-product-review/
Report Post »Insipid
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 11:09pmNot that bad as a food addative. There are some products that are over 16 million scovilles. Special edition extracts from Blairs. Thus as a natural pepper it may be the hottest but as far as products avail. Not even close !
Report Post »1proudAmerican
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:53pmDoes anyone know what the “hot oil” is that is used in Chinese food? I always get extra.
Report Post »Mark Tripp
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 8:31pmIt is peanut oil that they fry red hot peppers in to release the spice. The hard parts are removed and the oil is used for other dishes.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:51pmUm…..anybody know where I can actually buy these peppers?… My mother-in-law is coming for Christmas dinner this year.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 11:31pmJust a thought, could I get in trouble for acquiring these peppers? I don’t want to be prosecuted for owning a weapon of ass destruction….lol
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 1:48amhttp://www.chileseeds.co.uk/chilli_sauces.htm
This is the sight in the UK where you can purchase them; however I would check with customs to make sure if it can be imported, and if there are any import tariffs or such upon it.
Report Post »CaptGregg
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:51pmI’ve been a fan of spicy food since first being introduced to Southwestern and Mexican dishes in the early 1950s. Jalepenos and the occasional habenero are routinely found on my table, but I often see spicy foods being the basis for a p*ssing contest between macho types. Spices are meant to enhance food, not to make eating it an ordeal.
Report Post »1proudAmerican
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:44pmI’ve eaten a Thai pepper, which rates 100,000 on the Scoville Scale. I like hot and spicy food – eat jalepenos with no problem and use Habenero sauce on food. The Thai pepper shocked me. Ten seconds after eating a red one, my eyes teared up, I was dripping sweat, and my mouth was running like a fountain. My mouth was on fire for 30 minutes. I can’t even imagine, and don’t really want to think about, how hot the Naga Viper is. Sounds like a death wish to me.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:49pmOne bowl of chili for a friend loaded with a pinch of jolokai pepper and he started tearing, turning red, and studdered “My tung is numb”
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:36pmMy brother-in-law ate peppers that you could not touch with your hands. I thought he was stupid for doing things like this too. …A chemical weapon that will incapacitate the enemy without killing them. Humane?
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 2:33amwhen I went to the academy, we had to get pepper sprayed (oc gas) in the face,,,,just so we would know what it felt like. It wasn’t fun, it wasn’t pleasant. Now this stuff may be worse??? Takes your breath from you? Sounds worse than plastic bullets.
Report Post »Jeetman
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:08pmWhy would ANYONE do this LOL?
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 11:31pmthe desire for spicy mouth-burning foods is an aquired taste.
But trust me once you have aquired it; the tendency to push it at as far as it can go is common.
I wouldn‘t do what this cat did but I’d love to finely dice 1/8 of one of those peppers up and toss it in a chilli and see what happens.
its a minor challenge to your personal constitution, fortitude and toughness. Plus it is a rush.
All spicy-food/hot chilli fans know what I mean when I say this.
Report Post »Adam Coble
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:05pmand make it mandatory for the diets of our congress!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Joseph28
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:05pmwow :O
Report Post »PoliticalOpinionWarDOTcom
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:04pmThis is the craziest thing I’ve seen. I love hot and spicy food (like Thai food), but this is nuts!
Report Post »This guy is the man!
Deb C
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 8:49amThis pepper is part of a cure for cancer
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:02pmwe should make our politicians eat one of these every time they open their mouths
Report Post »Richlove1
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:01pmAnd a ton more for the White House mess, while you’re at it.
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 7:48amOr make icecream flavor for michelle my belle…
Report Post »Richlove1
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 9:58pmIt numbs your tongue, and makes you not want to talk? Order a ton for the Congressional cafeteria.
Report Post »komponist-ZAH
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:02pmAnd don’t forget the White House!
Report Post »New-American-Saviors
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 9:56pmAlready out there if you know where to get it and realize the Potential of Chemicals.Devastating !
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:05pmGod! If it burns going in and down, just imagine the burn when it passes on the way out!
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:05pmObviously a Soros funded assassination attempt on Glenn Beck and his family.
Clearly Van Jones cross-bred chillis with Soros dollars using the Tides Foundation’s secret laboratories. Obviously, the solution is to hoard gold and $200 per back food. Sadly, none of you Losers can afford an ounce of either.
13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:06pmBeck’s internal dialogue:
My coffee is no longer hot because I poured it nearly an hour ago. I blame George Soros.
George Soros made me stub my toe.
George Soros and Woodrow Wilson created Nazism to spread Stalin’s ideas.
George Soros, who is Jewish, is a nazi and he secretly funded the time machine Obama used to pretend that he was born in Hawaii.
George Soros is actually Woodrow Wilson.
Woodrow Wilson was Hitler.
Therefore World Wars I and II, the Korean War, Viet Nam, Iran-Contra, Watergate, and Jar Jar Binks are all George Soros’ fault.
P C BE DAMNED
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:13pmCapsaisen is in the Cayenne pepper also and while hot is not considered an irritant at least in the cayenne pepper. It has been used as a natural blood coagulant, it will stop a heart attack and is good for a sore throat. It has been recognized as a benefit to mankind for many generations. It in the form of the cayenne pepper has been called the only herb with no negative effect on the human body. FYI
Report Post »Sheepdog911
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 10:59pmSomebody please send a lifetime supply for 13thGen for tomorrow nights dinner. 13th, please go away you POS.
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on December 4, 2010 at 11:05pm13th Generation Anti- Americans infernal dialogue
George Bush stubbed my toe
Glenn Beck is a Nazi, Woodrow Wilson Impersonator
Rush Limbaugh went to Hawaii to find Barry’s birth certificate
Sean Hannity is a WWII Hitler Youth instructor
Dan Foster caught me beating my wife
Elkhart Indiana is the center of the universe
George Sauros is the lead singer of the Red Hottest Chili Peppers
RepubliCorp
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 12:31am13TH DEGENERATION
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I see you are hiding now…….. but girlie commies like you always do
Joseph28
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 12:34amso uh 13th…. this has what to do with chili peppers?
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 2:15amthat’s funny as hell…..by I’ve tried the previous worlds hottest pepper an CANNOT understand why one would want to embelish on it……still, funny.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 5:44amThe only losers here are broker and the 13th. They have such an screwed up outlook that I don’t know why they bother to get up in the morning.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 5:51amMy prayers would be answered if someone shoved one of those peppers up 13ths backside…
Report Post »HKS
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 8:55amSo 13th is a girlie commie, condolences.
Report Post »Rn mom
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 11:20amBroker- Don’t assume what I can afford- I could buy you twice and still have money left over to buy a real liberal.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 1:00pmsoon they will control the water in the USA
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and the sound weapons are worse than any pepper spray
independentvoteril
Posted on December 5, 2010 at 7:39pm13thGenerationAmerican.. Soooo funny.. NO can‘t blame Soro’s for ANYTHING where when you FOLLOW THE MONEY it doesn’t CONNECT to him.. its AMAZING your brain is so small you can’t even admit the connection.. but than there are none so blind than those who WILL not see..
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