Nothing adds heat to a dish quite like hot sauce. Think you're hot sauce savvy? Take this quiz and prove it!
Which pepper is the hottest in the world?
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Carolina Reaper
Pepper heat is measured in Scoville heat units (SHUs). A standard tabasco pepper is 30,000 to 50,000. The Carolina Reaper is just a bit more than that at 2.2 million SHUs. Now that's fire!
Which pepper forms the base of most hot sauces from the Caribbean?
cayenne
habanero
scotch bonnet
Pepper sauce, the local name for hot sauce, is served with almost everything in the Caribbean. Scotch bonnet (100,000-350,000 SHUs) is the usual pepper.
How long did it take Mike Jack to down three Carolina Reapers to achieve the Guinness World Record for this feat?
19.2 seconds
9.72 seconds
This was the first time the record was achieved in less than 10 seconds! During this itty-bitty time period, Jack ate three Carolina Reapers, which equates to 4.9 million SHUs!
Hot peppers contain capsaicinoids. Who might benefit from this, medically?
cancer patients
people with severe seasonal allergies
recovering drug addicts
Capsaicinoids trigger endorphin and dopamine release, which help ease the effects of drug withdrawal. Sometimes people get addicted to hot sauce because of those dopamine releases.
This hot sauce is made with a pepper popular in Southern Africa.
harissa
sambal
piri-piri
"Piri-piri" (or "peri-peri") is a Swahili word meaning "pepper-pepper." The sauce has become popular all over the world thanks to the chicken chain Nando's, which uses it.
