Officials from Guinness World Records officially certified the ghost pepper as the hottest in the world in 2007, measuring it at 1,001,304 Scoville Heat Units (SHU) – or 10,000 times hotter than Tabasco sauce. The record has since been broken by the Trinidad Scorpian ‘Butch T’, which was grown in Australia and measured at 1,463,700 SHU in 2011. The popularity of alderwood smoke is also set to grow. Alder is commonly used for smoking fish and is said to have a sweet and smoky flavour.
