Types of Chilli

The Infinity Chili pepper is a chili pepper hybrid of the Capsicum chinense species created in England by chili breeder Nick Woods of Fire Foods, Grantham, Lincolnshire. For two weeks in February 2011, the Infinity Chili held the Guinness World Record title for the world's hottest chili with a Scoville scale rating of 1,067,286 Scoville Heat Units (SHU).

Naga Viper and Scorpion cultivars 1,250,000 to 1,350,000 SHUs Cultivated in Cumbria, England, by chilli farmer Gerald Fowler, the Naga Viper is a three-way cross between the Bhut Jolokia, Naga Morich, and Trinidad Scorpion varieties, which also gave rise to the Butch T.

The Nagabon is a great chili plant, if for no other reason buy some seeds. Here’s a picture that should tell more than what I can type at this point, OMG hot. As you can see the Nagabon chili plant produces lots of peppers.

Chili pods are good sources of vitamins A, C, E and folate. (Image: Jupiterimages/PhotoObjects.net/Getty Images) Chilies have a reputation for being hot and pungent, but many chilies have a sweet, more delicate flavor.The fruits are used to flavor products from sauces to chocolate and jellies.

At its mildest, the Red Savina chili sits at the same heat as the hottest potential habanero or Scotch bonnet pepper (100,000 to 350,000 SHU). However it has the potential to quadruple the typical heat of a milder habanero.

750,000+ Scoville heat units A cross between a Ghost Chilli (Bhut jolokia) and a Trinidad Scorpion. Fruity taste gives way to terrible suffering. The Scoville scale ranks foods in terms of heat units, measured per unit of dry mass.

The "scorpion" peppers are referred to as such because the pointed end of the pepper is said to resemble a scorpion's stinger. World record The Trinidad scorpion 'Butch T' pepper was, for three years, ranked the most pungent ("hot") pepper in the world according to Guinness World Records.