You need to sign a health-waiver before ordering this burger
This burger made by an Australian joint is not for the faint of heart, tongue, or stomach. Probably one of the world's spiciest burgers, one has to wear a protective gear while making and eating it. Want to know the main ingredient? A sauce made out of India's very own bhut jolokia, a ghost pepper cultivated in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Manipur.
It's legitimately the hottest burger in Australia: Burger Urge's MD
Aptly named The Double Decker Death Wish, patrons visiting this joint to try the burger are mandated to sign a waiver, claiming that despite knowing all the risks, 'I am eating this ridiculously hot burger of my own free will and choice.' Offering of Burger Urge, whose MD Sean Carthew says, "It's legitimately the hottest burger in Australia. Those ghost chilis are no joke."
Made of beef patties, key ingredient is ghost chilli sauce!
Available in all its 26 branches, this burger has become a quick-selling item, ever since it was launched in July this year. The restaurant shared on its Instagram handle the ingredients of the burger as, "Two angus beef patties, maple bacon, cheese, pickles, jalapenos, tomato and lettuce with GHOST CHILLI SAUCE." The sauce is made of bhut jolokia, besides other top-shot spicy chilli peppers.
Some love to devour, some gulp down liters of water
When asked about the reception, restaurant officials categorized the customers into two heads: the spice lovers, who devour the burger and the others who drink liters of waters to calm themselves down. The second category, however, easily outnumbers the first one, they said.
#KnowYourChilli: Army was mulling to make weapons of Bhut jolokia!
Now a bit about bhut jolokia, one of world's hottest chilli and a native of India. It's so potent that Indian Army was mulling to make weapons out of it! The pungency of this chilli is a whopping 855,000 to 1,041,427 SHU (Scoville Heat Units), a scale that measures the concentration of capsaicin in chillis. For reference, Kashmiri or dry red chilli measures just 2000 SHU.
