Updated for 2013
Here is the most up-to-date list of the World’s Hottest Peppers.
As you can see the previous world champion, The Trinidad Scorpion Butch T has been beat!! The new “non-official” World’s Hottest Pepper is the Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Blend. The “non-official” is because Guinness doesn’t recognize it as the hottest YET. Independent lab tests have proven it to be hotter than the competition. They called it the Moruga Scorpion. Many hot peppers are named after the location they originated from, just like this pepper came from Moruga, Trinidad.
Top Ten Hottest Peppers In The World 2013
SHU = Scoville Heat Unit (A measure of Spiciness)
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1. Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Blend (Moruga Scorpion) 2,009,231 SHU
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2. 7 Pod Douglah (7 Pot Douglah, Chocolate 7 Pod) 1,853,936 SHU
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3. Trinidad Scorpion Butch T 1,463,700 SHU $9 Read More |
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4. Naga Viper 1,349,000 SHU $10 Add to cart |
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5. Other 7 Pod Varieties (Red [Giant], Barrackpore, SR Strain, Primo, Jonah, Brain Strain, Yellow) 1,000,000 – 1,300,000 SHU Barrackpore $8 Add to cart 7 Pod Red (Giant)From: $6 Select options |
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6. Chocolate Bhut Jolokia 1,000,000+ SHU $7 Read More |
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7. Bhut Jolokia (Ghost Pepper) 1,041,427 SHU |
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8. Naga Morich 1,000,000 SHU
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9. Dorset Naga 1,000,000 SHU
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10. Trinidad Scorpion CARDI 990,000 SHU $8 Read More |
This is an excellent list of natural torture devices
Cool natural torture , I can probably eat one of these peppers
I can eat #8
As soon as i get back on my feet im buying some!
How can I buy 6 of each of all of the hot peppers?
Do you sell plants or only seeds?
Sorry, we only sell seeds.
What is the SHU of the ghost chili pepper?
super hot units
Scoville Heat Unit
1,041,427 Scoville Heat Units
what is 1 SHU
1,000,000 saw it on man vs food.
you dont exactly sell the peppers???
What country is the naga viper located?
Your prices are so low wow compared to other sites
India, Pakistan [?], Bangladesh
The naga viper is a hybrid chili and has not been stabilized, so it should not be considered in the list
imho. Gerald fowler from the chili pepper company developed it from the uk.
Im From Trinidad and the Scorpion Morouga peppers are really hot…..Im use to eating them because I eat it with food everyday since I was 5 years old.
My grandma is from port of spain would love to grow some of these seeds and grow them for her. Also misses the trinadad curry. She saysothers curry In the us Is just not the same.
I like to eat these peppers because I read an article in a magazine which said heat was good for you.i like eating them with foods.
The Hottest Pepper is Ghost Pepper i think!!
Not anymore!
Which is the hottest
Trinidad Scorpion Morouga Blend
Not anymore! North Carolina Reaper AKA HP22B.
Is that hotter than the ghost pepper?
yes, the ghost chilly on the scoville scale is 330,000 to 1,000,000 , where as the trinidad scorpion morouga blend starts at 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 on the scoville scale so it is quite a bit hotter. but either will cause a normal person pain that isn’t use to eating such a hot pepper.
can you die from eating the Trinidad Scorpion?
Actually, there’s 2 current record holders. The Trinidad scorpion Moruga is the hottest ” single” chile ever tested; however the hottest “average” heat goes to ed currie’s Carolina Reaper. I think it was tested at 1,474,000 shu. I tend to go with the average since the heat in peppers are very inconsistent.
Also, the picture of the Trinidad 7 pot douglah you have posted is not a picture of a douglah. Its a Brown 7 pot. The douglah is burgundy colored not Brown. Two different strains.
I bought some ghost pepper seeds dont remember the site but so far none of them have came up.
I’ve had some Ghost pepper seed germinate 60 plus days after sowing them.
Yes mine finally came up thank u
I have eaten the Butch T… I was in the hospital for 7 months.
Lesson:
DON’T.
DO.
PEPPERS.
I just recieved a cuttin of a Trinidad Scorpion pepper plant today. Safe to eat or cook with ppl? Anyone try it yet? I’m plannin on doing a lil breeding project with her.
I have just tried literally the scrapings off of a dried Trinidad Scorpion Morouga Blend and my lips are burning my tongue is a little burning, im sweating and my nose is running. Wow I have never had such a small peice of something and then had such a quick reaction. I love spicy but holly hell!
If the hottest pepper is just over 2 mil shu, how can they have pepper spray at 18 mil shu?
It’s concentrated capsaicin (the stuff that makes chilies and peppers hot) .
No thank you. I’m from Minnesota. We find regular table ketchup a bit spicy here. Very interesting though.
I ate a naga and my flipping head exploded. Spent the next 107 days in hospital and 3 weeks pooing blood