Take The Hot Pepper Challenge -- If You Dare!
By now you’ve no doubt heard of the ice bucket challenge. A few years back it led to everyone from celebrities to soccer teams and moms and dads to challenge their friends to a cool dousing of ice water, all in hopes of raising funds to combat ALS. Well, the latest challenge is really heating up the nation, not cooling it off. It seems everyone from basketball pros Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal to singer Kelly Clarkson and comedian Kevin Nealon have reportedly taken part, and they may just wish for a bucket of cold, cold water when they’re finished!
The Color Of Heat
When it comes to peppers, you’ll find there are all different kinds of hues out there. From bright green and yellow to fiery orange and red, the options are just about endless. There’s a lot that goes into the heat of a pepper, though, from the actual type of pepper you grow to where it’s harvested. It’s kind of deceptive then just basing a pepper off its color, because of many peppers, no matter how hot they can eventually get, start out green. They may even be harvested green, but that’s not to say they’ll stay that way. Whether you...
Turning Up The Heat With The Scoville Scale
Maybe you’ve heard the term before, or maybe it’s a new concept. Either way, you’re probably wondering, what exactly is the Scoville scale? In simple terms, it’s a way of measuring a pepper’s heat. You may think you can determine that yourself at first bite, but in reality, there’s definitely more to it than just that.
Where in Your Mouth Do You Feel the Burn?
Did you Know? Depending on which pepper you taste, the burn can be felt in different areas of the mouth
Kind of like how we humans are unique in our own ways, chili peppers are too.
Each pepper not only varies in physical appearance, but the heat profiles are quite different too.
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