world's hottest pepper

I love hot peppers. Jalapenos, they are like candy. Cayenne, they give my soups a nice zip. Habaneros, now you're getting warmer. The folks from the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University have found a pepper that puts them all to shame. The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion apparently lives up to it's dangerous sounding name. Peppers produce a compound that gives off heat called "c