Hot Sauce Festival

The chillies eaten at one of the heats for the 2018 Chilli Champs

The sauces ChefDeb tasted and the Carolina reaper chillies RNZ staff tasted.

ChefDeb contemplates the world's hottest chilli

Producer Ceinwen Curtis triples the gloves to cut up this Carolina reaper chilli

Producer Ceinwen Curtis with very tiny pieces, about a quarter of the size of your thumbnail.

RNZ staff ready for battle

Health correspondent Karen Brown tastes a piece

Foreign editor Liz Brown at the edge of her heat tolerance

Reporter Charlie Dreaver finds it hot breathing out

Liz Brown counts the Scoville heat units

Music Producer Yadana Saw says her lips are burning

Business editor Gyles Beckford wants some more

Gyles goes for the yoghurt to cool down