Pepper & Seeds
We are going to seed these and see what we get. They are fairly hot from my taste. I think these are Fresno Peppers in the range of 2,500 to 10,000 on the Scoville scale - relatively mild!
In 1912 Wilbur Scoville, a scientist developed a test called the “Scoville Organoleptic Test” which is used to measure a chili pepper’s pungency and heat.
Originally, Scoville ground up peppers and mixed them with sugar water, then tested them with a panel of tasters who sipped from these sugar-water-pepper solutions.
He would then dilute the solutions bit by bit until they no longer burned the tongues of the tasters, after which he would assign a number to the chili pepper based on the number of dilutions needed to kill the heat.
The measurements are divided into multiples of 100. Note that 1 part per 1,000,000 dilutions of water is rated at 1.5 Scoville Units. Pure capsaicin, the stuff that makes chili peppers hot, is rated between 15 – 16,000,000 Scoville heat units.
The above has been paraphrased from www.chilipeppermadness.com.
Shot with a vintage Tamron SP 35-80mm f/2.8-3.8 on a m42-FX adapter @ f3.8.
Pepper & Seeds
We are going to seed these and see what we get. They are fairly hot from my taste. I think these are Fresno Peppers in the range of 2,500 to 10,000 on the Scoville scale - relatively mild!
In 1912 Wilbur Scoville, a scientist developed a test called the “Scoville Organoleptic Test” which is used to measure a chili pepper’s pungency and heat.
Originally, Scoville ground up peppers and mixed them with sugar water, then tested them with a panel of tasters who sipped from these sugar-water-pepper solutions.
He would then dilute the solutions bit by bit until they no longer burned the tongues of the tasters, after which he would assign a number to the chili pepper based on the number of dilutions needed to kill the heat.
The measurements are divided into multiples of 100. Note that 1 part per 1,000,000 dilutions of water is rated at 1.5 Scoville Units. Pure capsaicin, the stuff that makes chili peppers hot, is rated between 15 – 16,000,000 Scoville heat units.
The above has been paraphrased from www.chilipeppermadness.com.
Shot with a vintage Tamron SP 35-80mm f/2.8-3.8 on a m42-FX adapter @ f3.8.