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19 Extreme peppers

Extreme peppers Harvesting hot peppers can misfire if you don’t follow a few rules. Wear gloves. Do NOT

touch your face or any other sensitive part of your body. Wash hands thoroughly when
you take off your gloves. If you need to relieve a burning sensation in your mouth, drink milk.

› Basket of Fire

The name says it all: this compact little plant
is an explosion of colour. Yellow, orange, bright red
and deep purple peppers. Use fresh or dried, peppers
have a rating of 80,000 SHU. Extremely versatile,
and plants have a good tolerance of cooler weather.
Great in a container.

› Carolina Reaper

Beware! This pepper may have a sweet and fruity
flavour, but The Guinness World Records list
the Carolina Reaper as the hottest chili pepper
in the world: 2.2 million SKU. Peppers are red
with a bumpy texture.

› Trinidad Scorpion

Insane heat. Peppers have a scorpion-like tail,
hence the name. From the Caribbean, these red
and wrinkled peppers come in second on the list
of the hottest peppers, just under the Carolina
Reaper. 2 million SHU.

› Primotalii

Relatively new on the scene, this pepper is a bona
fide member of the world’s hottest peppers, reaching
a scorching 2.2 million SHU. Peppers are light, about
2 to 3 inches long, and ripen from green to a gnarly
red with long tails similar to the Carolina Reaper.
The flavour is slightly fruity with floral notes.