Scoville Units

Salsa dinner is the best dinner. There's no nutritional guilt when you make it yourself out of fresh vegetables. Anyway, Wikipedia has a handy chart for determining how hot hot peppers are:

* 0: No heat
* 100 to 500: Pepperoncini
* 500 bis 1000: New Mexico pepper
* 600 to 800: TABASCO® brand Green Pepper Sauce
* 1,000 to 1,500: poblano pepper
* 2,500 to 5,000: TABASCO® brand Pepper Sauce
* 2,500 to 5,000: jalapeño
* 7,000 to 8,000: TABASCO® brand Habanero Sauce
* 10,000 to 23,000: Serrano pepper
* 30,000 to 50,000: Cayenne pepper
* 50,000 to 100,000: Thai pepper
* 100,000 to 300,000: Habanero chile
* 855,000: Naga chile
* 2,000,000: pepper spray
* between 15,000,000 and 16,000,000: pure capsaicin

Mmm, good. Also, I forgot to mention Alton's chile pepper episode.