Indian Military to weaponize ghost chili

[ajk23az]

Indian military to weaponize world's hottest chili

Mar 23, 6:19 AM (ET)

By WASBIR HUSSAIN

GAUHATI, India (AP) - The Indian military has a new weapon against terrorism: the world's hottest chili.

After conducting tests, the military has decided to use the thumb-sized "bhut jolokia," or "ghost chili," to make tear gas-like hand grenades to immobilize suspects, defense officials said Tuesday.

The bhut jolokia was accepted by Guinness World Records in 2007 as the world's spiciest chili. It is grown and eaten in India's northeast for its taste, as a cure for stomach troubles and a way to fight the crippling summer heat.

It has more than 1,000,000 Scoville units, the scientific measurement of a chili's spiciness. Classic Tabasco sauce ranges from 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units, while jalapeno peppers measure anywhere from 2,500 to 8,000.

"The chili grenade has been found fit for use after trials in Indian defense laboratories, a fact confirmed by scientists at the Defense Research and Development Organization," Col. R. Kalia, a defense spokesman in the northeastern state of Assam, told The Associated Press.

"This is definitely going to be an effective nontoxic weapon because its pungent smell can choke terrorists and force them out of their hide-outs," R. B. Srivastava, the director of the Life Sciences Department at the New Delhi headquarters of the DRDO said.

Srivastava, who led a defense research laboratory in Assam, said trials are also on to produce bhut jolokia-based aerosol sprays to be used by women against attackers and for the police to control and disperse mobs.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100323/D9EKA7GG1.html

 

[zrinkill]

That is awesome.

 

[Vintage]

Wonder how Pakistan responds to this...

 

[ScipioCowboy]

Wonder how Pakistan responds to this...

Weaponizing the flatulence produced by consumption of said chili.

 

[vta]

Weaponizing the flatulence produced by consumption of said chili.

 

[vta]

The bhut jolokia was accepted by Guinness World Records in 2007 as the world's spiciest chili. It is grown and eaten in India's northeast for its taste, as a cure for stomach troubles and a way to fight the crippling summer heat.

This strikes me as a bit backwards. The feeling I get when eating spicy food is exactly what they're claiming it cures: stomach troubles and sever sweating.

 

[hairic]

So... India is making pepper grenades.

The stuff in pepper spray is hotter, but I imagine the peppers could be cheaper.

 

[Hoofbite]

I dare Hos to put that in his chili.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Wonder how Pakistan responds to this...

They are making the salsa to go with the pepper

 

[Bob Sacamano]

This strikes me as a bit backwards. The feeling I get when eating spicy food is exactly what they're claiming it cures: stomach troubles and sever sweating.

Spice itself is hell on the breathing apparatuses.

 

[Hostile]

I dare Hos to put that in his chili.

I want to so bad you can't even fathom it. I can't find them here in Tucson or I would.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

I want to so bad you can't even fathom it. I can't find them here in Tucson or I would.

I tried growing them here last year in San Antonio. Too many days of 100+ temperatures equaled dead plants in July. They did spring up pretty fast though. I need to plant them right now though if I want to get one or two rounds out of pickings out of the plants.

Time to go seed shopping.

 

[ajk23az]

I want to so bad you can't even fathom it. I can't find them here in Tucson or I would.

do you know what the scoville units were on the hottest thing you've eaten?

 

[Hostile]

do you know what the scoville units were on the hottest thing you've eaten?

I wonder about those ratings. I have eaten raw habaneros that I didn't think were as hot as some jalapenos I have had. They claim habaneros are 10 times hotter. I do think habaneros get hotter the more of them you eat.

The hottest per the ratings is a salsa my wife and kids bought me for Christmas that was made with Red Savina peppers. It was seriously hot. I don't know the Scoville rating but I think that is the pepper that the ghost pepper beat out for hottest.

I still say wasabi mustard is one of the hottest things I have ever eaten, but it is a way different kind of hot.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

I was watching something on hot foods, chilies etc on some channel just last week and the showed a company in the midwest who manufactured pepper spray, both public and law enforcement grade.

The "base" for their products came in from another company in those 5 gallon plastic buckets like you'd see paint in. It was a dark, syrupy consistency, and made from "cooking down" a mixture of different chilies and pepper, including the bhut jolokia.

They showed a meter they used to test the Scoville scale of this stuff. The heat was something like 50 -100 times hotter than any single chili in existence in its natural form, which they took and diluted down with water and a aerosol-type propellant, depending on who the final product was sold to.

I don't see how a "tear-gas" made from that single chili is going to be any more effective than what's been on the market for years?

 

[SaltwaterServr]

I was watching something on hot foods, chilies etc on some channel just last week and the showed a company in the midwest who manufactured pepper spray, both public and law enforcement grade.

The "base" for their products came in from another company in those 5 gallon plastic buckets like you'd see paint in. It was a dark, syrupy consistency, and made from "cooking down" a mixture of different chilies and pepper, including the bhut jolokia.

They showed a meter they used to test the Scoville scale of this stuff. The heat was something like 50 -100 times hotter than any single chili in existence in its natural form, which they took and diluted down with water and a aerosol-type propellant, depending on who the final product was sold to.

I don't see how a "tear-gas" made from that single chili is going to be any more effective than what's been on the market for years?

I suppose if you only cook down the Bhut's then you end up with a hotter end product rather than an amalgamation of various other milder chilis.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

I suppose if you only cook down the Bhut's then you end up with a hotter end product rather than an amalgamation of various other milder chilis.

Not according to this company on this show. They specifically said this "base" was, "hotter than any single chili" in its natural form, and was designed as such.

 

[MetalHead]

1.Come to San Antonio.
2.Step to Chunky's.
3.Order the "4 Horsemen" Burger.
4.Enjoy the pain.

 

[Hostile]

1.Come to San Antonio.
2.Step to Chunky's.
3.Order the "4 Horsemen" Burger.
4.Enjoy the pain.

I saw that on Man vs. Food and I want to try it so bad.

 

[Dallas]

Not according to this company on this show. They specifically said this "base" was, "hotter than any single chili" in its natural form, and was designed as such.

Capsaicin which is the main chemical in most "pepper sprays" is still derived from fruit plants in the Capsicum genus, including chilis.


Pure Capsaicin can result in death.