I always wonder who is the half-baked journalist who first started writing BHUT
for BHOT jolokiya....no way it has anything to do with GHOSTS. Its just the
BHOT tribe from which the name has derived!
Pradip Kumar Datta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ‘Bhut jolokia is world’s hottest
chilliÂ’
THE VICTOR, THE VANQUISHED
New Delhi, June 17: They are as tez as they come. The bhut jolokia or ‘ghost
chilliesÂ’ of Tezpur figure in the Time MagazineÂ’s latest issue as the worldÂ’s
hottest chilli.
The magazineÂ’s cover story that takes a look at the culinary specialities and
peculiarities around the world has zeroed in on the burnt orange pods,
developed in a military laboratory in Tezpur, as packing the deadliest punch.
The article ‘Global Warming’ notes that the bhut jolokia, also called the Naga
chilli, carries the sort of heat that one normally would find only in the
hottest chilli sauces made from pure pepper extract.
Chilli heat is measured in Scoville Heat Units (SHUs), and while pure
capsaicin, the main capsaicinoid in a chilli, measures 16 million SHUs, the
ghost chilli measures just over one million SHUs. (PTI)
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