So I participated a bit longer ago, the hottest pepper extract available at the time was called “The Source” rated at 7.1 million Scoville units. To put that into perspective, Carolina Reaper peppers, depending on how well they’re grown, can reach about 2.5 million Scoville (Reapers weren’t around at the time either, hottest pepper was the aforementioned Bhut Jolokia).

I quit when they served a lemon sorbet with a large amount of that in it - which was the most sadist thing they could come up with in my opinion. Imagine you’re in a lot of pain from having suffered through all the enormously hot rounds before that one, and then they serve you something icy cold, which you are desperately longing for, but you also know it will just inflict immense pain.

It’s like throwing a drowning man a barbed wire rescue rope.