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. …