Scoville Unit

Food
Portraits of Hot Chili Pepper Masochists Crying Over Spicy Peppers
I went to the chili festival where people are passing out from eating off-the-charts hot peppers to meet Scoville scale addicted masochists and learn why they love spicy peppers so much.
Thieu Custers
9.22.16
Food
Here’s Why Water Is the Worst Thing to Drink With a Spicy Meal
A new video released by the American Chemical Society explains exactly why drinking water after you eat spicy food is pretty much the worst thing you can do.
Alex Swerdloff
12.3.15
Food
This Former Weed Grower Now Breeds the World's Hottest Chili Pepper
Smokin' Ed Currie no longer cultivates or consumes weed, though he does still occasionally get high on his own supply of hot peppers—if you believe severe intestinal distress followed by a major endorphin rush qualifies as a high.
David Bienenstock
8.4.15