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Originally Posted by clkeiper
Is there a way to determine scovilles in a pepper you grow yourself? or is this some scientific measurement that no one can do on their own other than to taste and die?
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Nope. Taste and hope you don't die.
SHU is measured nowadays with a mass spectrometer, but there's still a controversy about what you measure: a single pod? samples of a single crop? samples of the variety from several locations? one year?
The touch-to-tongue method is more meaningful anyway.
