How Hot Is Bird Pepper

The fruits are very pungent. The bird’s eye chili is small, but is quite hot (piquant). It measures around 50,000 – 100,000 Scoville units, which is at the lower half of the range for the hotter habanero, but still much hotter than a common jalapeño.

Is Birdseye hotter than cayenne?

Bird’s eye chili: 50,000–100,000 Scoville heat units. Cayenne peper: 30,000–50,000 Scoville heat units.

How spicy is Bird's Eye Chilli?

Birds Eye Chillies generally have a rating of 100,000 to 225,000 on the Scoville Heat Scale for Chilli Peppers. To put this into context the hottest chilli is at 15,000,000 and a Jalapeño would be 2,500.