How Hot is HOT?
The habanero pepper is 85 centuries old. How hot is it? These habaneros from Yucatan come in at 200,000 – 300,000 Scoville heat units. Runner up to the Red Savina habanero pepper at 350,000 – 550,000 units. For some perspective, the Tabasco pepper is 30,000 – 50,000 while the weak jalapeno is 3,500 – 4,000 Scoville heat units. Ooooo la la!
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This is why you never eat habaneros raw! He DOES live!

Habanero [hah-buh-nair-oh]
Means "from Havana" (Cuba).
Although they may not actually be.Most agree, habanero peppers are the most flavorful. And if they DON'T agree, send them to us and we'll straighten them out.
They are green (unripe) red, orange, white, brown and sometimes pink.
Most habaneros rate 200,000 to 300,000 Scoville heat units. THIS IS HOT MY FRIEND!
Nothing matches the habaneros flavor or aroma.
More "HOT" facts:
Almost all mammals find habaneros hot, but birds do not. really.
You can preserve by 1) making jam, 2) drying (all heat-no flavor), 3) freezing or 4) pickling.
Habaneros are the hottest NATURAL pepper (The Naga Viper is hotter but is a hybrid-man made).
Today they are mostly grown in Mexico, Panama, Belize, Columbia, Costa Rica, Idaho, Texas and California.
Mexico eats the most habaneros.
Most habaneros rate 200,000 to 300,000 Scoville heat units.
In recipes 5 jalapenos = 1 habanero
Most people think the seeds are the hottest part of a pepper. The heat is actually produced by a substance called capsaicin, near the skin (inner wall) of the habanero.









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TheScarms – Habanero and Chili Pepper Information – The Bhut Jolokia is officially rated at an inferno like 1,001,304 Scoville heat units, according to the Guinness World Records. Paul Bosland, a professor and noted chili breeder at New Mexico State University, that the Bhut Jolokia, also known as the Naga Jolokia, Tezpur pepper, king cobra chili, dorset naga, naga morich, or ghost chili, was the world’s hottest chili pepper until the Naga viper came along. The Bhut Jolokia is a naturally occurring chili, part of the Capsicum Chinense species, which also contains the habanero and red savina.
NCSA Habanero – is a collaborative framework and environment containing a set of applications. Through Habanero you can interact with other people on the Internet using a variety of applications that share state and events. The Habanero framework or API is designed to give developers the tools they need to create collaborative Java applications.
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The Diet Diary » More on Peppers and Metabolism: Pill filler – I decided I really would start taking pepper capsules to boost my metabolisms. I drove to whole foods, where I purchased 300 size 0 capsules for about $7. I found 1 lb of cayenne for less than $3 at my local grocery store. …
OMG! There’s a Frank’s Hot Sauce iPhone app!! – PARSIPPANY, NJ (April 2010) FRANK’S® REDHOT®, the #1 brand of hot sauce in America*, is about to turn up the heat for its flavor fans with the introduction of its Frank’s RedHot iPhone application, Frank’s RedHot Wing Restaurant Finder. With a community of flavor fanatics that are as passionate about their wing sauce as they are about their hometown hoops team, wing lovers everywhere will soon be able to locate the best bars and restaurants serving up wings in time for the big games. For true RedHot fans, the option also exists to choose only those restaurants that specifically serve wings sauced with Frank’s RedHot.