scoville

On the scoville scale, the ghost pepper sits very near the top, with a rating of ~1 million scoville units, which sits comfortably above the average consumer-grade pepper spray.

As a comparison, one habanero (not the crazy ghost/chocolate cultivars, but the plain jane habanero) is 150k Scoville units.

Then, using a silver straw, Scoville sucked out fist-size chunks of the medial temporal lobes on both sides of Molaison’s brain.

Fortunately it’s also easier than ever to get extremely high scoville hot sauces and peppers online to liven up my food.

Or maybe a couple of 2 million Scoville Reaper peppers in the fruit punch.

A quick internet search suggests that the '2x' one recalled is 8800 Scoville units.

If you could tell whether a pepper's value in the scoville scale before buying, or the supermarket could accurately label things cheaply.

At least Scoville had the sense to realize what he'd done and stop.

Like, no one demands a study with Scoville units to prove that e.g.

High Scoville chillies are no joke and should be handled with care.

I think the Habanero is my go-to for most dishes - they're hot enough without being as insanely hot as the ones at the upper end of the scoville scale.

Tabasco which is barely perceptible as hot is around 5000 scoville.

> "On August 25, 1953, with a cheap jury-rigged hand drill, Scoville carved two holes in Molaison’s skull, one just above each of his eyes.

Scoville lifted up Molaison’s frontal lobes with a spatula and reached far into the center of his brain.

Scoville was overambitious and underinformed, but it's also important to remember that HM was living with debilitating seizures that made daily life almost unbearable.

Scoville is good for chilis and hot sauce products with a rating.