Hot sauce · New Orleans
Crystal Extra Hot
10,000 Scoville heat units
The same base, taken up an order of magnitude.
What this rung gets you Buffalo wings at hot, and finish the basket
How hot Crystal Extra Hot actually is
Crystal Extra Hot is about 2 times hotter than a jalapeño. Growing conditions move any published figure several-fold, so read it as the middle of a range rather than a promise.
On the twelve-rung ladder
It sits on rung 6, Bite, which spans 6.5K to 15K SHU. The top of the jalapeño range and the bottom of the serrano range. Sweating slightly here is expected and is not a sign you have overshot.
Training to this rung is what gets you: Buffalo wings at hot, and finish the basket.
Comparable heat
Anything here burns at roughly the same level, which is what makes them interchangeable when you are training at this rung.
- Tabasco Habanero 7,000
- Hungarian wax 8,000
- El Yucateco Red 9,000
- Aleppo 10,000
Common questions
How hot is Crystal Extra Hot on the Scoville scale?
Crystal Extra Hot measures about 10,000 Scoville heat units. That is about 2 times hotter than a jalapeño.
Where does Crystal Extra Hot sit on the ladder?
Rung 6 of twelve — Bite, covering 6.5K to 15K SHU. The top of the jalapeño range and the bottom of the serrano range. Sweating slightly here is expected and is not a sign you have overshot.
What stops the burn from Crystal Extra Hot?
Dairy. Capsaicin is fat-soluble, so water spreads it rather than removing it; the casein in milk, yoghurt or ice cream lifts it off the receptor. A spoonful of sugar held in the mouth measurably helps too. Starch — rice or bread — physically carries it off the tongue.
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Eating Crystal Extra Hot is rung 6 of twelve
Buffalo wings at hot, and finish the basket — that is what rung 6 gets you. Scoville Ladder gets you to rung 6 on a schedule rather than a dare: a heat to train at tonight, rest between, and a target that moves with the burn you actually report.
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