Scoville Units For Dummies

For the benefit of they that asked: a Scoville Scale worth seeing. I’m impressed that I own a bottle of the hottest sauce they do that’s actually intended for consumption.

If I had £140, I still wouldn’t spend it on a bottle of Blaire’s 6A.M.… when a pepper sauce is contains three times the capsaicin level of police-grade pepper spray, it’s not designed to be used as food. I mean, really.

Structure of capsaicin, courtesy of Wikipedia

One Response to “Scoville Units For Dummies”

  1. The Pacifist Says:

    Mmmm… even “The Source” is unreasonable, as the bottle is half the size of “Da Bomb” and costs 3 times as much…

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