The infinity chilli pepper will melt your face

Icarus flew too close to the sun. The modern day retelling of the legend has man attempting to put the entire sun in his mouth.

A British grower has apparently produced the world’s hottest pepper, the Infinity Chilli. The stats are on this pepper are alarming. It measures 1,176,182 on the Scoville scale, which rates the heat of a given pepper. The jalapeno pepper in your pico de gallo measures between 2,500 and 5,000 Scoville units.

The Infinity Chilli would be the world’s hottest pepper, replacing the current world record holder from India — the Bhut Jolokia which comes in at a tongue-searing 1,041,427 units.