A machine for testing Scoville Heat Units, seen at the Southern Food Museum
A machine for testing Scoville Heat Units, seen at the Southern Food Museum
by heathotsauce
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sprawlaholic
Very cool. It is kind of surprising we haven’t created a more modern system for testing heat in peppers.
bwoahful___
120 grand in 1980s money would’ve been a hell of a purchase. These guys were serious about their spice commitment!
Competition-Dapper
Anyone else here feel like scovilles are kinda just a marketing gimmick? I’m not denying the science, I just more often than not have situations where the numbers don’t add up. For instance, I’ve had jalapeños hotter than habaneros and Serranos hotter than them as well(I realize a lot goes into it for strength). Then with say the hot sauce DaBomb, supposedly only like 200,000 but it’s WAY hotter than most 2,000,000 scoville sauces 🤷♂️
Useful-Perspective
This makes me almost nostalgic for the days when the screen was the one of the **smallest** pieces of hardware in the system. **Almost.**
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Very cool. It is kind of surprising we haven’t created a more modern system for testing heat in peppers.
120 grand in 1980s money would’ve been a hell of a purchase. These guys were serious about their spice commitment!
Anyone else here feel like scovilles are kinda just a marketing gimmick? I’m not denying the science, I just more often than not have situations where the numbers don’t add up. For instance, I’ve had jalapeños hotter than habaneros and Serranos hotter than them as well(I realize a lot goes into it for strength). Then with say the hot sauce DaBomb, supposedly only like 200,000 but it’s WAY hotter than most 2,000,000 scoville sauces 🤷♂️
This makes me almost nostalgic for the days when the screen was the one of the **smallest** pieces of hardware in the system. **Almost.**
That’s one old ass HPLC system. New Waters systems look like this: https://www.waters.com/nextgen/be/en/products/chromatography-systems/acquity-premier-system.html?s_kwcid=AL!13256!3!525950366835!!!g!!&xcid=ppc-ppc_08035&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6cKiBhD5ARIsAKXUdyZg2si7YvVc4__q1-MQ5qtX4LxMvRubbvTIyFEnpEGgrRjErSRPSDAaAnvcEALw_wcB
Where is this southern food museum?
https://www.agilent.com/cs/library/applications/5990-5992EN.pdf Agilent’s method of testing capsaicinoids in case you want to inject a run on your home LC.