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Chilli Children Trust

May 26, 2011 at 12:57 pmCategory:news

Thanks to the networking joys of Twitter I’ve recently found out about the Chilli Children Trust.

It’s a fantastic charity working with disabled children in various areas throughout Uganda. As well as raising money to help with education, health and transport, the project teaches local communities about growing chillis for income. The money that the communities earn is then spent on providing better schooling, medical care and life skills for their children.

The charity recently put out a call across Uganda for children with cleft lips and palates and burn victims so they could offer them help and point them in the right direction for surgery. Because of Chilli Children, a group of young children will be operated on in August at the CoRSU hospital.

Using chillis to help those in need – fantastic idea!

Find out more about the Chilli Children of Rukungiri Trust.

Record Breaking Aussie Chilli

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April 12, 2011 at 9:47 amCategory:chilli plants | news

Just a few months after the Infinity Chilli from good old Blighty is declared the “World’s Hottest Chilli”, the Aussies go and smash that record in the face!

Marcel de Wit, owner of the The Chilli Factory in Morisett, Australia, has cultivated and produced the Trinidad Scorpion Butch Taylor with a Scoville heat rating of 1,463,700 – ouch. No wonder their grower says they are “severe, absolutely severe”.

Trinidad Scorpion chilli

The Trinidad Scorpion Chilli

The seeds originated from Trinidad and were given to Marcel de Wit by Neil Smith from the Hippy Seed Company. Mr de Wit had a helping hand from Mark Peacock who assisted with the growing process by advising about disease and fertilizers. A three man job, one super scorpion chilli.

The chillis will be used in making a super hot chilli sauce to test even the hardiest chilli fiend.

I have to say that is one scary looking, fat boy chilli. Good work, Australia!

Infinity Chilli – “World’s Hottest Chilli”

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February 20, 2011 at 10:23 amCategory:chilli plants | news

Chilli lover Nick Woods, an RAF security guard from Lincolnshire, has bred what is now dubbed the world’s hottest chilli.

The Infinity Chilli is rated at 1,067,286 on the Scoville heat chart, according to the University of Warwick.

Keeping in mind that your average Jalapeno is between 4000 and 8000 units, this really is one to knock your socks off.

Nick Woods runs Fire Foods, a website selling spicy sauces and chilli plants.

Why anyone would even try to eat one I can’t begin to comprehend, but kudos to Mr Woods for breaking a Guinness World Record and for being an undeniably crazy chilli fiend!