Wasn't sure I would post this aside, hurts just thinking about it.
I forget the names but, the creator of the Reaper and the new hottest (~3 times hotter?) Pepper X, as well as the owner of the bottled sauce company Heatenist seem to agree that "the Scoville scale is not cumulative". As in, if you can choke down the first two or three, more will just marginally increase the duration not the pain level. Wouldn't know, I suspect there's a medical risk and I'm not willing. [emoji1]
But gawds help you if you've got hemorrhoids... there's a reason that madman named his company 'Puckerbutt'. [emoji15]