Samar Halarnkar considered his chilli tolerance was quite high until he tasted the Naga chilli. He has now no doubt about the ferocity of the world’s hottest chilli. In Mint Lounge:
In February, I had a taste of the world’s hottest chilli, the Naga chilli, also called the Bhoot Jolokia in Assam (bhoot for ghost, perhaps a reference to its other-worldly fire).
It was, with no exception, the hottest I have ever tasted.
What I had really was just a dab of chilli paste, smaller than a child’s teardrop.
It spread a pleasant fire through my mouth, set off little pinpricks on my forehead, and an afterburn that lasted for 15 minutes. More:
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