See this at the grocery store the other day, and figured I'd take a crack at this. I love hot stuff, so why not?
First, some info.
There's an official rating system for hot peppers. It's known as the Scoville scale, which uses "scoville heat units" (SHU) to rate how hot a pepper is based on the concentration of capsaicinoids, a group of chemicals that'll set off your body's heat-sensitive nerves. The higher the number, the hotter the pepper.
Bell peppers are a solid 0 SHU. Jalapenos can range from 1,000 SHU to 8,000 SHU. Habaneros are all the way up to 350,000 SHU.
This chip is made using Carolina Reapers and Scorpion Peppers, both of which are infamously super hot peppers that can clock in at ranges over 1,700,000 SHU (or more than 4x the heat of the hottest Habaneros).
This is approaching the spiciness of bear deterrent pepper spray (aka MACE), which is in the 2,000,000 - 5,000,000 SHU range.
Now, for the challenge:
The rules are simple: Eat the chip, then wait as long as possible before eating or drinking.
You'll earn one of four rankings, based on how long you hold out:
5 minutes: Powerless.
10 minutes: Powerful.
30 minutes: Supercharged.
1 hour: Invincible.
I've been enjoying a lot of Habaneros lately, so I think I'm ready to risk it. Updates to follow as reblogs to this post.
