Scoville is a term that's usually thrown around when people are talking about the peppers that really pack heat. No one cares about the Scoville of bell peppers, but when we're talking about the ...

Here’s everything you need to know about the world’s most famous heat ranking system before you add chiles to your next meal. Audrey Morgan is a senior editor at Food & Wine with over eight years of ...

The spiciest food on the planet is the Trinidad Scorpion, a golf-ball-sized pepper cultivatable in most parts of the world "You take a bite. It doesn't seem so bad, and then it builds and it builds ...

The hottest chili ever measured rates a whopping 1,569,300 Scoville Heat Units, but what exactly does that mean? Where does the Scoville Scale come from? What exactly does it measure? And how do we ...

In Texas, we find spice so nice we had to proclaim it twice. The Lone Star State is home to not one but two officially sanctioned chiles. In 1995, the Texas Legislature declared the ubiquitous ...

Until recently, the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion was known as the world’s hottest chile pepper. But according to the Guinness Book of World Records last month, it’s now the Carolina Reaper grown by Ed ...