Comments on: How Hot is That Pepper? Unpacking the Scoville Scale

By: Carol J

Carol J — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:19:17 +0000

And then there are people like me who can’t eat any kind of hot pepper. I end up with a mouthful of little white blisters.

By: Elliott Winslow

Elliott Winslow — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:20:14 +0000

Maybe the editor is also the ghost chile taster, and was hallucinating during his proofread of this article…

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:36:38 +0000

OK. So journalistes should hold themsulves to a higher standurd of writing, but c’mon. Stop being so petti with commants. Did you take any time to enjoy the content, despite what you may have thought of the qualety of the grammer or spelling?

I am as critical of headline and article writers as anyone else. If the spelling AND grammar checking did not make them curious enough to figure out what was wrong and FIX it, maybe they deserve to be castigated. (Look it up when you get home.)

Still, this was far more enjoyable – and much less inane – than many things I’ve seen in the media recently. Thanks for a thought provoking treatment of the subject!

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:18:40 +0000

The article is riddled with typographical errors. No copy editors, huh?

By: Arden Campbell

Arden Campbell — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:10:26 +0000

If chilies are native to South America how can the Asian cultures have considered chili heat “one of the six core tastes for thousands of years”?

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:06:38 +0000

“…Asian cultures — where chile heat has been considered one of the six core tastes for thousands of years…”

Since chilis didn’t come to the old world until after Columbus arrived on the scene, shouldn’t this say “hundreds of years?” Or should “chile heat” be changed to something else, like just “heat” (from other foods, like black peppers)?

By: Lis Riba

Lis Riba — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:54:00 +0000

Is anybody working on a comparable scale for “heat” from the mustard/horseradish family of foods?

If not, why not?

By: Wayno

Wayno — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 02:14:54 +0000

OK, but why can you also feel the heat on the way out, the next day. Ain’t no taste buds there!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:47:56 +0000

I suspect you meant one cup of “tabasco” sauce in paragraph two, not “tobacco” sauce.