This post is apropos of nothing which is a phrase often used..
Added 2024-10-05 11:00:22 +0000 UTCThis post is apropos of nothing which is a phrase often used by the host Sean in Hot Ones and now all I can think about is how I could totally get to the end in that show. ❤️🔥
A fun fact about Scoville heat units: a pharmacist created the Scoville scale way back in the early 1900s as a way to determine how much heat should be added to a ointment intended to warm the area it was applied on.
Scoville units work by determining how many times the capsaicin (what makes things taste hot) must be diluted (usually by sugar water) unless a burn is no longer detectable by the human tongue.
For example: if a pepper rates at 2,000 Scoville Heat Units, then it must be diluted 2,000 times before the heat is barely detectable. A regular jalapeño pepper is around 5,000 Scoville units. A Carolina reaper is about 1 million.
The more you know ❤️🔥
