The Naga Viper claims title of world’s hottest pepper

If you can’t stand the heat, you’re probably a rational human being. The Naga Viper is now apparently the world’s hottest pepper — in the words of its creator, Gerald Fowler, “it’s hot enough to strip paint.”

According to Yahoo, researchers at Warwick University have found that the Naga Viper measures 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale, which rates the heat of a given pepper. The Naga Viper is a cross between the Bhut Jolokia, the first pepper to cross the million mark on the Scoville scale, the Naga Morich and the Trinidad Scorpion.