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Guinness Record for eating world's hottest Chilli: Ghost Chilli

by JeffHuang | April 10, 2009 at 07:33 am

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A new benchmark has been set for eating the world's hottest chilli in two minutes. An Indian mother has broken the Guinness World Record after eating 51 Ghost Chillis, the world's hottest chilli in two minutes.

The feat was accomplished in front of British chef Gordon Ramsay who could not manage to eat one. The woman, Anandita Dutta Tamuly, 26, said she felt terrible as she managed to eat 60 in a previous local event.

Ghost Chilli: The chilli was inducted into the Guinness World Records in 2007 for being the world's spiciest at more than one million Coville units, the measure of spiciness. Standard green chilli has about 1,500 units and the Ghost Chilli outspiced the closest competition by more than two times.

Atul Lahkar, a local chef, told the Times of India that Ms Tamuly also "smeared seeds of 25 chillies in her eyes in one minute with the crowd simply awestruck".