Mass. food challenge: Bertucci’s pizza 4 times hotter than pepper spray, and we loved it
Bertucci's is heating things up.
The Somerville, Mass.-born pizza company is challenging spice enthusiasts to put their heat tolerance to the ultimate test with a pizza so fiery it includes sauce measuring 8 million on the Scoville scale.
Bertucci's has launched the " Reaper Pizza Challenge ," a limited-time promotion that dares customers to consume two slices of their specially crafted ultra-spicy pizza within a 15-minute timeframe.
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The pizza's heat level comes from an impressive array of pepper varieties and specialty sauces. The pizza is made with jalapeño, Thai chili, pepperoncini, Serrano, Fresno, and cherry peppers . It is then topped off with a sauce made out of a mix of hot sauces, including voodoo reaper sauce and two drops of Pepper Palace purgatory sauce . That purgatory sauce clocks in at around 8 million Scovilles. For context, a typical jalapeño pepper registers between 2,500 to 8,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), while law enforcement grade pepper spray typically measures between 1.5-2 million SHU.
The challenge comes with strict parameters: 15 minutes to eat two slices and no milk allowed.
Those interested in testing their spice tolerance have limited time to participate. The Reaper Pizza Challenge runs through November 23.
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