Quote:
Originally Posted by puttgirl
I did read somewhere that the Infinity Chile has broken the Guinness world record. Liquid chromatography measures the heat in chiles pretty accurately, wonder if they used that to determine the scoville units?
|
Yes, they do, but with a conversion factor of 16x (HPLC measures in parts per million. Pure capsaisin is 16 million SHU or 1 million ppm). Scoville used drop dilution (one drop of pepper extract diluted in water until a pannel of tasters couldn't sense any heat).