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> In fact, it has been estimated that the results [for the Scoville scale] from different laboratories could vary by as much as 50 percent. Not really that imp
by klodolph 6y ago
> In fact, it has been estimated that the results [for the Scoville scale] from different laboratories could vary by as much as 50 percent.
Not really that important. +/-50% is no big deal. The range is pretty wide. Even with 50% error you're in no risk of confusing, say, a Jalapeno pepper for Cayenne. And those are both way-too-spicy peppers to my mom, or kinda everyday peppers in my household.
The hot sauces that I personally use cover about three orders of magnitude, I'm sure.
- metaphor 6y ago> Not really that important. +/-50% is no big deal. By your anecdotal judgement, sure. But for the rest of industry proper that actually cares about quantitative objectivity, there's ASTA Method 21.3 which supplants "trained tasting experts" for HPLC.
- Agentlien 6y agoThis reminds me of an incident during a family get together where I was showing my mother my one of my chilli plants. It's a wonderful cultivar which gives yellow fruit with a lemony flavour and about ten times the heat of a jalapeno. My sister overheard my description of the flavour and heard me mention it was the mildest of the varieties I have. She interpreted this as it being a mild chilli pepper with citrus flavour and insisted on sampling one. Despite me asking if she was really sure she ended up quite upset.