This isn't one to try at home in an attempt to become a YouTube star.
The world's hottest pepper has burned a hole in a man's throat.
The man, a 47-year-old American citizen, suffered a 1-inch tear in his oesophagus after he bit into a burger covered in ghost-pepper puree. The Journal of Emergency Medicine reports how the burger was covered in the ghost-pepper puree, a sauce made from bhut jolokia peppers.
The pepper measures 1 million units on the Scoville scale, which is 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce.
The man vomited after eating the burger and was in severe pain.
He was rushed to a hospital where he spent 23 days before he was discharged with a gastric tube.
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