STORY

As part of our persuasion unit of work in English, the children were asked to write their chosen Chilli Champion a letter of persuasion in an attempt to make them eat, film and share the experience of eating the world's hottest pepper: the Carolina Reaper. Any money raised will go into the prize fund which the children and I will use to buy items to fill the prize tray; these items will be paid for with raffle tickets which the children earn each week through their own hard work.

HOW HOT IS THE CAROLINA REAPER?

As the hottest chili pepper in the world currently, the heat range is listed from 1,400,000 Scoville Heat Units on the Scoville Scale to a blazing 2,200,000. Compared to your average jalapeno pepper, it measures 175 to 880 times hotter. Compare that to a typical jalapeno pepper, which averages about 5,000 Scoville Heat Units, and the hottest Carolina Reaper is up to 440 times hotter. That is crazy hot!

OUR CHILLI CHAMPIONS

Name: Carl

Age: 32.

Representing: Evie

Job: Network Maintenance Fibre Splicer.

Favourite Curry: Chicken Tikka Masala.

Fun Fact: I came second in the UKBFF British qualifier 2018.

Name: Simon

Age: Young.

Representing: Dylan

Job: Teacher at Court Fields School in Wellington.

Favourite Curry: All of them, apart from ones with fish or prawns.

Fun Fact: I once added Cayenne pepper to the kids bolognaise and didn’t realise thinking it was paprika. I was surprised to find that they said it was very spicy. However, I made them eat. It wasn’t until I came to eat mine later that night I too found it a bit spicy.

Name: Harry

Age: 53

Representing: Poppy

Job: Nature Reserves Manager

Favourite Curry: Chana dal with a good dollop of lime pickle and yoghurt.

Fun fact: Poppy loves it when I sing at the top of my voice in the car after picking her up from school, what makes it even better is that I can’t sing!

Name: Alex

Age: 18

Representing: Isla

Job: Bar staff at Bullets Sports Bar.

Favourite Curry: Chicken Tikka Massala.

Fun Fact: I would like to try skydiving.

Name: Gregory

Age: 48

Representing: Diane

Job: Engineer

Favourite Curry: All