Not everybody enjoys feeling the burn. But in the tight-knit world of chili heads who compete to see who can eat the most uber-spicy peppers, the endorphin rush that comes from capsaicin — the ...

So why, oh why, on God’s green Earth are we still measuring chile pepper heat on the Scoville scale? Of all the units that measure all the things, Scoville heat units have got to be the most ...

The new pepper rates an average of 2.69 million Scoville Heat Units (SHU), according to tests performed by Winthrop University in South Carolina, beating the previous record holder, Carolina ...

Created by American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville in 1912, the Scoville scale involves preparing a solution with chile samples, then adding an increasing amount of a sugar-water mixture until ...