There’s a new chilli on the scene for people who think they can handle their Scovilles – and it’s taking no prisoners.
Tesco say they have sourced the hottest chilli pepper ever to be grown in the UK (commercially – god only knows what sort of monsters are being created in people’s back gardens) – and they are, perhaps recklessly, offering it to their innocent shoppers to buy.
The aptly named Komodo Dragon measures 1.4million on the Scoville scale – comparing to 3,500 Scovilles for a jalapeno pepper and 350,000 for a Scotch Bonnet.