And now, for a bit of non-holiday news . . . . . Of course, the hotheads knew this first. A few weeks ago, at the local Pepper Lovers Club annual chili cook-off, the heat freaks were buzzing about a ...

Fiery food mavens seeking to one-up each other now have to gear up for a whole new test of culinary bravado: the world's hottest chili pepper. Yes, the Naga Viper, the latest claimant to the ...

Chilis being transported to the Nagaland's chili competition. Gloves need to be worn because the chili oils can harm the skin. Aaron Joel Santos / Novus Select The 17 tribes of Nagaland are united, ...

Ronnie Walley wants to get his hands on some special pepper seeds. If he can get just 10 or 15 seeds of the Naga Viper, he can add the newly named world’s hottest pepper to the collection of spicy ...

That’s one spicy, paint-peeling pepper. The Naga Viper, a cross between three of the hottest exiting varieties, is set to become the hottest chili in the world. It’s so hot that it can strip paint.

For certain people, finding and triumphing over the world’s hottest chile is one of those captivating, extreme pursuits like climbing Mt. Everest or running an ultramarathon in Death Valley in July.

In 2007 the ghost pepper, or Naga Bhut Jolokia, was declared the hottest pepper in the world by Guinness World Records after one weighed in at over a million Scoville heat units. (It’s still the ...

Anyone with a fondness for hot chili peppers should know the Dorset naga. It was developed by Michael and Joy Michaud, owners of a British mail-order seed company (seaspringseeds.co.uk). They started ...

India's turning to a natural resource to develop its next non-lethal weapon — super-hot chili peppers. The country's defense researchers are looking for ways to use the spicy items as ingredients in ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Ronnie Walley wants to get his hands on some special pepper seeds. If he can get just 10 or 15 seeds of the Naga Viper, he can add the newly named world’s hottest pepper to the ...

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