The ranges of Scoville Heat Units (SHU) typically used to call a pepper mild, medium, hot, or extra hot are: Mild (100 to 2,500) Medium (2,500 to 30,000) Hot (30,000 to 100,000)
Is 9000 Scoville units hot?
Pepper Scoville Heat Units (SHU)
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Jalapeño 5,000-9,000
Pasilla Peppers 1,000-1,500
Bell Peppers No Heat
The hottest hot pepper on the Scoville scale is the Carolina Reaper, with a Scoville rating of 2.2 million Scoville units, followed by the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion pepper, with a Scoville rating of around 1.6 million Scoville units (compared with 16 million Scoville units for pure capsaicin).
Here's a glance at heat levels for some popular hot peppers, according to the Scoville scale: Ghost Extremely Hot (over 1,000,000) Habanero Extra Hot (100,000 to 300,000) Tabasco Hot (30,000 to 50,000)
How hot is 150000 Scoville units?
Scoville Heat Units Scoville Heat Level Chili Pepper
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150,000 - 325,000 SHU 10 Scotch Bonnet Red
150,000 - 325,000 SHU 10 Habanero Big Sun
100,000 - 325,000 SHU 10 Burkina Yellow (Habanero Burkina Yellow, Burkina Scotch Bonnet)
130,000 - 310,000 SHU 10 Habanero Yellow (Gelbe Habanero)
100–8,000 SHU: most major-brand hot sauces. 2,500–5,000 SHU: jalapeño pepper. 5,000–10,000 SHU: chipotle pepper. 6,000–23,000 SHU: serrano pepper.
What is high on the Scoville scale?
The Carolina Reaper is currently considered to be the hottest pepper in the world with a Scoville Heat Unit ranging from 1.56 million units to 2.2 million units. Even your bottle of hot sauce has a Scoville rating. Original Tabasco has a rating of 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units.