It turns out that the Red Savina habenero chile pepper has been surpassed by the Indian Naga Jolokia, which peaks at about 970,000 Scoville units. The Red Savina peaked at about 580,000 Scovilles.

This is really spicy. To give you a sense of scale, the Thai pepper, which is already too spicy for most people, only attains about 100,000 Scovilles. The weak jalapeño pepper only hits 8000 Scovilles.

In honor of this pepper, Grant, the pepper guy, video taped himself taking a healthy bite of this insanely hot pepper. Sheer madness.

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