Re: Ratings of hot peppers
At 12:50 AM 10/30/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I don't know the details but the Redwood City Seed Company catalog mentions
>something about one of the hotness scales, Craig's Hotness Scale. This
>scale is based on how many ounces of sauce will have a threshold detectable
>hotness when one ounce of peppers are added to it. Thus 1 ounec of peppers
>will give 1000 ounces of sauce (salsa???) a detectable heat if the rating
>is 1000.
>
>Or more accurately if once ounce will flavor 1000 ounces, then the rating
>is 1000.
>
>I have no idea who Craig is, or where he developed this scale at. I have
>no idea how one accounts for differences in taste perception either, but
>from what I can tell, apparently that is how this method works, by testing
>with human taste buds.
Craig Dremann is one of the owners of the Redwood City Seed Co.
>Just for the record, and because they list some interesting seeds, the web
>site for this company is www.ecoseeds.com. I have never ordered from this
>company, am not affiliated with them, but I did a web request for their
>catalog a year or three ago and have been on their mailing list ever since.
> They have a decent selection of pepper seeds, a few other interesting
>seeds, and I swear I read in there that they sell some sort of pamphlet for
>at home measurment of pepper hotness, but I failed to find it this evening.
I've ordered from them and received what I ordered, and the plants grew. I
have no complaint about them.
The pamphlet is called "Pepper Hotness Test," and it's at the bottom of p.
27 in last year's catalog.
Margaret L
>managed to finish writing the Ada 95 code that was due at midnight, I
>believe it has caused me to loose even more hair, and my eyes can no longer
>see anything further away than my monitor. Does anyone know a good website
>pizza place that delivers?
>
>Thanks for flying,
>Glider
>
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