Which is the hottest chilli?That's one of the questions we get asked everyday in the shop and by people who email us.

The Guardian has given the answer bellow, although we're not so keen on the accuracy of the scoville units. If you would like to see our scoville scale have a look here.

"Hottest chillies in the world: the Scoville scale – in pictures

Do you dare to take on the burn of a fearsome Carolina Reaper? Here are some of the chillies to beware of – or confront – grown by the Clifton Chilli Club, Bristol and measured on the Scoville scale of heat

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  Peach Ghost Scorpion: 750,000+ Scoville heat units
  A cross between a Ghost Chile (Bhut Jolokia) and a Trinidad Scorpion. Fruity taste gives way to terrible suffering. The Scoville scale ranks positions foods in terms of heat units, measured per unit of dry mass. Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian

  Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/Guardian

• Chocolate Habalokia: c800,000 SHU
  A cross between a Chocolate Habanero and a Bhut Jolokia. Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian

  Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/Guardian

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  Dorset Naga: 923,000+ SHU
  The chilli that began the modern British obsession. First cultivated by Joy and Michael Michaud at Sea Spring Farm, Dorset, it was named the hottest chilli in the world in 2006. Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian

  Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/Guardian

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  Seven-Pot Habanero: 1,100,000 SHU
  Originally from the Caribbean, it is called the Seven Pot because each little pod can add fire to seven family-size pots of stew. Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian

  Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/Guardian

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  Trinidad Moruga Scorpion: 1,200,000+ SHU Another record hot chilli, the Moruga Scorpion (Capiscum chinense) is from the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian

  Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/Guardian

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  Naga Viper: 1,382,118 SHU
  Briefly the world’s hottest chilli in 2011, the Viper is a hybrid of other super-hots, including the Bhut Jolokia and the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian

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  Carolina Reaper: 1,569,300 SHU
  As a rule, the hottest chillies are the ugliest, and the Carolina Reaper is one ugly so-and-so. Five hundred times hotter than Tabasco, if your mouth can do the maths"

  http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2015/jan/12/hottest-chillies-in-the-world-the-scoville-scale-in-pictures

  Photograph: The Oxfordshire Chilli Garden/Alamy