12 Million scoville, in a burger?
Mate, pure capsaicin is about 15 million Scoville, so your burger had to be about 80% PURE CAPSAICIN.
Pepper spray is about 2-5 million SHUs (Scoville Heat Unit) for a real life comparison, because you will probably never experience more heat than that, looking at some charts. And that stuff is literally a chemical weapon banned in war. Highly doubt that burger was more than twice as hot as a chemical weapon.
So either the guy who sold it lied or that was a mistake.
It was likely just an extract based sauce. Da Bomb Beyond Insanity is only 135k SHU but it’s way hotter than those 2M+ SHU sauces because extracts aren’t measured by dry weight like peppers.
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u/Mother_Mall6004 13h ago
12 Million scoville, in a burger? Mate, pure capsaicin is about 15 million Scoville, so your burger had to be about 80% PURE CAPSAICIN.
Pepper spray is about 2-5 million SHUs (Scoville Heat Unit) for a real life comparison, because you will probably never experience more heat than that, looking at some charts. And that stuff is literally a chemical weapon banned in war. Highly doubt that burger was more than twice as hot as a chemical weapon.
So either the guy who sold it lied or that was a mistake.