Today's "word of the day" in the online Oxford English Dictionary is
"Scoville" as in the heat measure for peppers. This was once a test done
by diluting capsaicin solution until a board of tasters said that its
heat reached the level of the pepper in question. Pure capsaicin is
supposed to be 15,000,000 Scoville units. I wonder how on earth they
measured that?
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James Silverton, Potomac

I'm *not*