Which is hotter, a habanero or a jalapeo.

You might sweat, burn the roof of your mouth, and shed a few tears when you eat a hot chili pepper.Some people think this is great.How much is too much?People who love jalapenos can be habanero-shy.The latter will cause more sweat and tears.

The bright green pepper tempers its heat with the sweet taste of a bell pepper.If you want a milder pepper, you can remove the seeds and ribs.The heat of the jalapenos varies depending on where they were grown.capsaicin is the chemical that gives the pepper its kick.Most of the jalapenos were grown in the high deserts of Mexico, Arizona and New Mexico.It has been found that jalapenos grown in cooler climates are easier to ship.The peppers are not as hot.

In an ordinary U.S. supermarket, habaneros are the hottest pepper.The heat comes from the seeds of the orange or yellow lantern-shaped peppers.You might want to wear gloves.Don't rub your eyes.The author of a cookbook likens habaneros to a motorcycle-riding bad boy of the pepper world.

Chili peppers have different flavors and amounts of heat because of their different combinations of capsaicinoids.The two major ones are dihydrocapsaicin and capsaicin.The ratio of capsaicinoids in a pepper is a combination of nature and nurture.The peppers are designed to have the desired amount of heat.The hotness of plants increases when they are stressed.Other types of peppers are manipulated as well.Hotter jalapeno varieties include Biker Billy.There are two milder versions.

There are various ways to measure a chili's heat.A taste test is too subjective to be used for scientific purposes.The Scoville Organoleptic Test was developed in 1912.People tasted samples of chili.The participants could not sense any heat.The Scoville heat unit was one unit of dilution.Police-grade pepper spray weighs in at over five million Scoville units.A habanero pepper costs between 100,000 and 350,000, depending on the pepper.A habanero would be at least 40 times hotter than a jalapeno.High-Performance Liquid Chromatography is more expensive than the other tests.