Buena Mulata Hot Pepper Scoville Scale

Buena mulata grows to around 60 cm tall.

Buena mulata hot pepper scoville scale. Learn more about the scoville scale here. What s the scoville rating. Welcome peppers hot sauces spices and barbecue sauces. This scale was developed in 1912 by wilbur scoville to measure the pungency of chilli peppers.

The degree of dilution until there was no heat observed anymore gives its measure on the scoville scale in scoville units or shu. This old heirloom variety traces back to horace pippin an african american folk artist. The aztecs made sauces with chiles and they were referred to as molli. Carolina reaper trinidad scorpion scotch bonnet sugar rush peach buena mulata chinese five colour black hungarian red cayenne paprika lemon spice jalapeno orange jalapeno orange red white lighting mix.

A very rare extremely productive and stunning hot pepper being offered exclusively through baker creek. Mexican mulato chiles are part of the famous trinity used in mole as well as other mexican sauces and stews. I do not know where mr. William woys weaver introduced us to this pepper from his grandfather s collection.

Continue this thread. Scoville pepper heat scale in 1912 wilbur scoville a pharmacist developed a system to measure the heat level or pungency in peppers using a dilution based test. I d guess 40 000 as an upper limit probably around 10 000 15 000. Capsaicin is the chemical within peppers that makes them spicy or pungent and is measured in units.

53 reviews add your review. Posted by 4 years ago. Pippin found this pepper but after researching old caribbean cookbooks i discovered that there was a commercial hot sauce sold in cuba during the 1920s which carried the brand name buena mulata the merry mulata. Originally the heat rating of pepper extracts was measured by dilution with water.

The mulato chile pepper is a mild to medium pepper closely related to the poblano and usually sold dried. For those who don t like it hot they like it really hot. Food historian william woys weaver introduced this pepper from his grandfather s collection. 94 of 100.

When ripe the pepper will get to around 6 inches in length and will have a heat level that is similar to a cayenne pepper. It s c annuum though so pretty low on the scale. A buena mulata pepper. Note that the actual heat of any chile pepper can vary greatly dependent on many factors environment seed lineage etc.

The buena mulata pepper is beautiful ornamental hot pepper that ripens from a vivid violet to zesty orange then to deep red. For the chart below we used the highest shu rating for each pepper but all hot peppers can vary. His grandfather received the pepper from african american artist horace pippin in 1944.