The Scotch Bonnet chili pepper is one of the hottest peppers known to man, right up there on the Scoville scale with the habanero.

Yellow, orange or red, these little roughly one-inch peppers from the Caribbean have an irregular shape and are named because of their resemblance to Scottish tam o'shanter bonnets. Scotch Bonnet peppers are used to make Jamaican jerk and other Caribbean dishes.

Don't try to show off and eat them raw, which can cause dizziness, numbed cheeks and hands, and a bad case of heartburn.