Wilbur Scoville Doodle: Man who invented chilli heat scale is celebrated on Google
This guy is the only reason you can measure how hot the pepper that's buing your mouth is.
His name was Wilbur Scoville and he is being remembered with a Google Doodle on what would have been his 151st birthday.
Without the American chemist's ‘Scoville organoleptic test' you wouldn't have a way of measuring how ridiculously hot a Trinidad Moruga is (one of the hottest in world).
Although you'd soon find out after putting it in your mouth.
The Doodle features a game that involves you firing ice cream at hot chillies to smother their threat.
Scoville heat units (SHU) on the Scoville scale go from zero to a massive 16 million (Trinidad Moruga is 2 million).
On the lower end of the scale is Tobasco sauce that is around 1500 SHU.
SHU are a measure of the capsaicin in the pepper.
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