Brandon Wood Repeats as 2024 Hot Pepper Challenge Winner
Pain, anguish, tears, snot. Eight contestants started, only one finished. The fifth annual Nampa Farmers Market Hot Pepper Challenge happened on Saturday, September 21. This year, once again, all of the peppers were grown locally and provided by Pepper Pots and Dirty Sanchez Hot Sauce. Contest organizers had 22 peppers ready to go with the hottest being the Dragon’s Breath (2,500,000 Scoville Units). The eight contestants started out with the Jalapeno Pepper (2500 – 8000 Scoville Units) and progressed through hotter and hotter peppers. One by one, the contestants dropped out as we entered the “superhot” level of peppers (300,000…