ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. There are super-hot chile varieties. And then there's the sweat-inducing, tear-generating, mouth-on-fire Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. With a name like that, it's not surprising that ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - There are super-hot chile varieties. And then there's the sweat-inducing, tear-generating, mouth-on-fire Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. With a name like that, it's not surprising ...

The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion is the new hottest chile pepper on the planet. Use caution when consuming.

It is currently held by the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T, a Superhot grown by Mississippi plumber and home gardener Butch Taylor, in partnership with the Australia-based Hippy Seed Company.

ANSWER: There is another Michigan pepper guru, who I will not name, who was known for bringing in a variety of pepper seeds and growing peppers in Michigan, including the Moruga scorpion pepper.

McLaughlin recommends planting the seeds of super-hot peppers – such as the Trinidad Scorpion, the Congo Trinidad and the once-spiciest Bhut Jolokia (the ghost pepper) – shortly after January 1. Early ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - There are super-hot chile varieties. And then there's the sweat-inducing, tear-generating, mouth-on-fire Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. With a name like that, it's not surprising ...

So I ate the world's hottest chili this weekend. The Trinidad Scorpion pepper was measured at 1.4 million Scoville Heat Units last year, usurping the Bhut Jolokia as the king of capsaicin. It's ...

Until recently, the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion was known as the world's hottest chile pepper.

Bosland’s team planted about 125 plants of each ‘super hot’ chile pepper variety — the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, the Trinidad Scorpion, the 7-pot, the Chocolate 7-pot and the Bhut Jolokia ...

There are super-hot chile varieties. And then there’s the sweat-inducing, tear-generating, mouth-on-fire Trinidad Moruga Scorpion.