what is the the hotest spice?

Answer 1

"Scots Bonnet" chilli peppers. Top of the scale.

Answer 2

The hottest spice is the chillie,there are any number of varieties of chillie grown in chillie growing areas of the world & the pungency of each type varies a lot,it is said that the smaller the chillie the 'hotter' or more pungent it can be.

Answer 3

Tepín (Capsicum annuum v. aviculare), the tiny round fruit 1/4" across, is only harvested from wild plants growing in the dry desert of Northern Mexico, much hotter than habanero or tabasco. Plants are late maturing, usually requiring 120 days for green fruit and 200 days from the setting out of plants to mature red ripe fruit.

Answer 4

The hottest material I've ever heard of is capsaicin, the chemical that makes hot peppers hot. In nature, this occurs in the highest concentrations in habenero peppers, some specimens of which can be up to 1% capsaicin (by mass, I think, or possibly volume).

Answer 5

I believe that would be the piquin pepper, a tiny little thing with something like 300,000 heat units compared to the jalapeno which is somewhere around 60,000... My numbers might be slightly off but it's definitley the piquin....Google piquin pepper...it has a couple of other names....

Answer 6

The Tepin pepper is the hottest pepper in the world so far measured, and is rated at 64,000 on the Dremann hotness scale. This means that one ounce of the dried Tepin pepper produces a detectable hotness in 64,000 ounces of salsa.

Answer 7

The birds eye chilli < not captain birdseye > is a member of the chilli family is very hot .

Answer 8

The habanero chile (Capsicum chinense Jacquin) (originally Spanish "Javanero") is one of the most intensely spicy chili peppers of the Capsicum genus.

It is one of the hottest peppers

Answer 9

Scotch bonnet chillies. Fiery and fantastic. Use sparingly and remember to wash your hands before rubbing your eyes on touching other sensitive parts of your body!! LOL- Know what I mean??!!

Answer 10

Sarichi