The new hot sauce clocks in at 250,000 Scoville, so you might want to start with just a drop.

Scoville is a surname that traces back to Norman origins and appears in several medieval records.

The label lists the peppers' heat in Scovilles, so I know how hot each one is.

Scovill donated a collection of historical photographs to the local museum.

The Scovills donated antique silverware to the town museum.

Scovil is a surname found in several colonial records.

The Scovils donated a rare collection of maps to the historical society.

Before tasting the hot sauce, I checked the Scoville scale to see how intense the capsaicin heat might be.

They used 'Scoville unit' as a shorthand to indicate the pepper's heat.

The ghost pepper registered over a million Scoville units during the tasting, causing everyone's eyes to water.