I am a big fan of hot sauces and hot peppers. I recently ordered a bottle of “Zulu Fire Sauce,” made in South Africa, and I am growing a chili pequin bush in a container on my back deck. The bush is currently loaded with little round, green peppers.
The Zulu sauce turned out to be disappointingly mild, so I am now in the market for something a tad hotter. I have researched the matter and discovered the ten hottest peppers in the world, in descending order of hotness, are Carolina Reaper, Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, 7 Pot Douglah, 7 Pot Primio, Trinidad Scorpion (Butch T), Naga Viper, Ghost Pepper, 7 Pot Barrackpore, 7 Pot Red Giant and Red Savina Habanero.
By the way, the “7 Pot” designation means one pepper can heat up seven pots of stew. Frankly, I find the average jalapeno pepper way too hot to nibble, and the Carolina Reaper tested at 200 times hotter than the jalapeno. Wow.
