El Pinto food engineers and chile experts from Las Cruces, New Mexico have formulated a recipe that will come in at 12,000 Scoville units. El Pinto will use less than one pound of these precious peppers and dilute the recipe to make 100 gallons of salsa. El Pinto Restaurant in Albuquerque will use great caution in producing this product and the limited edition Scorpion Salsa will be available for serious “chileheads’ at next week’s Fiery Food Show in Albuquerque, New Mexico.Ĭhile is measured in Scoville heat units and while a jalapeño reaches 4,000 Scoville units, the Trinidad Scorpion consistently tested at 1.17 million units.
The Trinidad Scorpion pepper was certified by the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University as one of the top three hottest peppers in the world. El Pinto Restaurant in Albuquerque is inviting media to watch the bottling of the 1.1 million Scoville unit Trinidad Scorpion Pepper in El Pinto’s exclusive and limited edition Scorpion Salsa.