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This is the world's hottest pepper

If you like spicy food, you should definitely try the world's hottest pepper recently unveiled. The Dragon's Breath chili comes in at 2,400,000 Scovilles (SCU), which is 200,000 SCU hotter than the current record holder. The chili is over 500 times hotter than Tabasco sauce. So not edible! The spicyness of peppers is measured by the Scoville scale (which measures the hotness of peppers), which was developed in 1912 by an American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville. The creator, owner and grower of the Dragon's Breath chili, father and son Bob and Neal Price, will create an edible variety that will be available for purchase from their company ChilliBobs.