7NEWS tastes Australia’s new hottest burger: Burger Urge‘s ‘Scorpion Death Wish’
Measuring in at two million units on the Scoville scale, the Moruga scorpion chilli, also known as the Trinidad scorpion, is one of the hottest chillis known to humanity.
By comparison, it is more than five times hotter than a habanero pepper (350,000 units) and more than one million units hotter than a ghost pepper.
Add another 300,000 units via a dusting of scorpion chilli powder, and you have the key ingredients for what’s now been crowned Australia’s hottest burger.
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That’s right, Burger Urge serves its new “Scorpion Death Wish” burger with an Asian rainforest scorpion (Heterometrus spinifer) on top.
It had to obtain permission from the federal government to import the arachnid.
7NEWS journalist Rachel Baxter was tasked with taste-testing the burger at Burger Urge in Brisbane — so you don’t have to.
After taking a bite of the scorpion and commenting on its “weird after-taste”, she got stuck into the burger.
“Oh yeah, it’s hot. That’s really hot,” Rachel said after the first bite.
She made it four bites through before waving the white flag and getting stuck into the ice cream and milk.
“I think I need that milk now — and maybe a pay rise,” she said.
