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Looking for feedback on scoville scale

12 years ago

I started a fun project building a scoville scale for peppers. I'm a huge pepperhead and wanted to do something to bring my passion online.

I thought it would be a good idea to ask like-minded pepper lovers what they thought so far and get some feedback on what I could do better. I want to create the biggest and best scoville scale online. I know I'm missing thousands of peppers but I have a good start. I see this as an ongoing neverending project.

My scale is located at http://scovillescaleforpeppers.com/the-scoville-scale/

Again, just looking for some friendly feedback. Thanks in advance.

Here is a link that might be useful: Pepper SHU Scale

Comments (10)

  • 12 years ago

    Here is a list to add if your missing some. I would not guarantee that those would be 100% accurate, but it is a start.

    The site is nice. Alot of work went into it I can tell.

    Will you include some of the more hot hybrids such as "Jays Peach or Natural Variants such as Yellow Ghost? There are so many chili varieties, and many are different scovilles of the same species (choc fatali- Mild vs yellow/red fatali-hot)

    http://www.ushotstuff.com/Heat.Scale.htm
    http://www.scottrobertsweb.com/scoville-scale/
    http://www.chileplanet.eu/database.html

    Again, nice job.

    Here is a link that might be useful: Scoville from chilis around the world

    This post was edited by RonnyB123 on Tue, May 27, 14 at 18:18

  • 12 years ago

    Very nice!

    I'm growing Fatali and Moruga Scorpion so when I read the Scoville to my wife based on a jalapeno (which she can barely take) she freaked out!

    I gave her half of a pequin once and I never heard the end of it.
    She was very upset..lol!

    Stoney

  • 12 years ago

    wow keep going that is starting to look like a great resource for info for the Newbies out in the CHILIHEAD WORLD!!!!

  • 12 years ago

    Yah, I am quite often going online to find the scoville of a certain pepper. Would be nice to know there is one single site that has most of the peppers in one place. As it is, I usaually have to check 4 or 5 sites to find the pepper listed that I am looking for unless it is quite common.

    Good luck with that project. It might seem simple, but with the thousands of pepper varieties out there, it will take a lot of research and data entry to get it all set up. But after that, it will probably take minimal effort to maintain while adding new pepper varieties that are being developed as well as adding one not yet added. I would also expect a lot of traffic to the site once people realize there is essentially a one stop shop for scoville ratings. You might even be able to support it with some minimal sponsorship from seed an sauce companies.
    Good luck and keep us posted.
    Bruce

  • 12 years ago

    Excellent. Bookmarked and Subscribed.

  • 12 years ago

    Very nicely done..... Thank you!

  • 12 years ago

    Nice list you got going, could you change the Red Savina it should be 577,000 SHU just do a search for red savina with Dr. Paul Bosland who recorded it at 577,000.

  • 12 years ago

    Love the site. Will definitely check it often :)

  • 12 years ago

    Nice site, I see you've done a lot of work. But imo you should have a range, not just a number, and jalapenos are 5000 not 10000, where'd you get that number from? Also, it looks like on the superhots you are putting the highest number measured, it should be the average. Even on Ed's site, he states the CR at 1.474 million not 2.2 million. Same with the Moruga.

    Good luck, you've got a lot of work ahead of you, i know, I've only searched scovilles on approx. 150 varieties and it was a chore on some of the less common ones.
    Pam

  • 12 years ago

    That's awesome man. I like what you did. If I need to explain to someone the SHU I'll tell them to check out your website. One thing I would fix is, just do SHU of each variety. Example: Habanero and white habanero. There are so many color crosses I would just do the original pepper since they are so close in SHU. Just my opinion. Otherwise great job man

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