Were can I buy a Scoville heat scale?

Answer 1

Where ever liquid chromatographs are sold. They are not cheap.

Start here for models, specs, and suppliers:

http://test-equipment.globalspec.com/LearnMore/Labware_Test_Measurement/Chromatography_Instruments/High_Performance_Liquid_Chromatographs

Answer 2

You can't buy a Scoville Heat Scale ... it's a measure of the "hotness," or more correctly, piquancy, of a chili pepper.

More info:
The Scoville Organoleptic Test is a test which used a panel of five human heat samplers who tasted and analyzed a solution made from exact weights of chile peppers dissolved in alcohol and then diluted with sugar water. For this reason, measuring by Scovill Units is very subjective. To achieve a rating, it takes three out of five people to taste the heat in a diluted solution of alcohol and sugar water. The ratio of dilution is the Scoville Unit. For example, the Chiltepin is usually detected by 60 percent of the testers when diluted at a ratio of 1 part to 50,000 parts solution (1:50,000 and up to 1:100,000).

The hotter the sample, the greater the amount of water required to dilute it until the pungency was no longer detectable to the palate. Thus, if the dilution required was 1,000 units of water to 1 unit of alcohol sample, the sample was said to have a pungency of 1,000 "Scoville Units".

The Scoville scale is the food industry unit of measurement for the pungency of hot peppers. It is named for Wilbur L. Scoville. While the Scoville Organoleptic Test is still occasionally used, it has mostly been replaced by high performance liquid chromatography. This process measures the amount of capsaicin present in parts per million, which are then converted into Scoville Units. Pure capsaicin is 16 million Scoville Units.

Answer 3

try this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale