Scoville units are a popular way to judge how spicy certain peppers are, but just how does the scoring method go about ...

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 an associate food editor at Food & Wine with over seven ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

Do you like picante food? Can you scale the spiciness of it? Well in 1922 a test was devised known as the Scoville Organoleptic Test by Wilbur Lincoln Scoville, an American pharmacist. The Scoville ...

This is about as hot as a pepper gets at 855,000 to 1,050,000 Scoville units. It's not at the very top of the scale because that spot is reserved for pure capsaicin, the component in hot peppers that ...

Morgan & I take on the World's Hottest Gummy Bear, clocking in at 9,000,000 Scoville. This is the hottest challenge either of ...

The Scoville Scale is a measurement chart used to rate the heat of peppers or other spicy foods. It can also can have a useful application for measuring cybersecurity threats. Cyber-threats are also ...