What makes chillies so hot? Friday's google doodle on Wilbur Scoville explains so
Scoville, born on January 22, 1865, is best known for creating Scoville organoleptic test, a scale of 'hotness' that can provide a definitive rating of how spicy a chilli is for more than 100 years.
- Jan 22, 2016,
- Updated Jan 22, 2016 1:54 PM IST
Ever wondered why chillies are so spicy? Ever cared for measuring their 'spiciness'? An American chemist Wilbur Scoville did years ago, thanks to which Google is now saluting the man on his birthday. Scoville, born on January 22, 1865, is best known for creating Scoville organoleptic test, a scale of 'hotness' that can provide a definitive rating of how spicy a chilli is for more than 100 years.
On his birthday, Google is commemorating Scoville with an interactive Doodle that asks visitors to assist his experiments by cooling the chillies' heat.
Once you click on the fiery play button, the game will help you learn heat properties of three kind of peppers- bell pepper, jalapeno pepper and cayenne pepper- in three levels.
Each level gets progressively tougher, starting off with bell peppers that has 0 scoville heat units to the one that has over 2 million in Scoville heat units. In each level, ice-cream will have a face-off with peppers. You need to throw ice-cream on the peppers to neutralise them. As the game proceeds, it gets difficult to aim the ice-cream at the pepper.
At the beginning of each level, you will see Scoville popping a pepper into his mouth to measure the heat content.
Ever wondered why chillies are so spicy? Ever cared for measuring their 'spiciness'? An American chemist Wilbur Scoville did years ago, thanks to which Google is now saluting the man on his birthday. Scoville, born on January 22, 1865, is best known for creating Scoville organoleptic test, a scale of 'hotness' that can provide a definitive rating of how spicy a chilli is for more than 100 years.
On his birthday, Google is commemorating Scoville with an interactive Doodle that asks visitors to assist his experiments by cooling the chillies' heat.
Once you click on the fiery play button, the game will help you learn heat properties of three kind of peppers- bell pepper, jalapeno pepper and cayenne pepper- in three levels.
Each level gets progressively tougher, starting off with bell peppers that has 0 scoville heat units to the one that has over 2 million in Scoville heat units. In each level, ice-cream will have a face-off with peppers. You need to throw ice-cream on the peppers to neutralise them. As the game proceeds, it gets difficult to aim the ice-cream at the pepper.
At the beginning of each level, you will see Scoville popping a pepper into his mouth to measure the heat content.