The chilli (or "chile") pepper is a seed-bearing fruit, bringing heat to the tastes of us mammals with the chemical compound capsaicin. The ghost chilli is probably the most well-known of the more intense cultivars. A few new varieties have appeared in the 2000s, reaching new heights ...
1. Pepper X 2,693,000 SHUPepper X is now the World’s hottest Pepper with an average of 2.69 Million Scoville Units and peaks over 3 Million SHU. Not much is known about this pepper since seeds have not been publicly released. So unfortunately you cannot taste or grow Pepper X yourself...
The hottest chilli pepper is Smokin Ed's 'Pepper X', grown by Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Company (USA), which rates at an average of 2,693,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), according to tests conducted by Winthrop University in South Carolina, USA, on 23 August 2023. History and Ori...
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Ed unveiled Pepper X on an episode of hit YouTube seriesHot Ones. yt Pepper X’s sizzling Scoville score was calculated by Winthrop University in South Carolina, who conducted tests using specimens from the past four years. For context, a jalapeño is around 3,000 to 8...
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Other hot peppers believed to rival the Carolina Reaper are the dragon's breath chili pepper at2,480,000on the Scoville scale; the Komodo dragon pepper, which has roughly the same Scoville count at the reaper itself (2,200,000 SHU); and the apollo pepper (at 3,000,000 SHUs). However,...
(Seeds were purchased from theChile Pepper Institute). If you're not familiar,this bad boy is the world's hottest chile pepper with a Guinness World Record to prove it.Also known as the ghost chile, this pepper from India ratesone million units on the Scoville scale,compared to 400,000 ...
Pharmacist Wilbur Scoville devised the scale 100 years ago, taking a solution of sugar and water to dilute an extract made from the pepper. A scientist would then taste the solution and dilute it again and against until the heat was no longer detected. So the rating depended on a scientist...
Pepper X, grown by Puckerbutt Pepper Co., was awarded the title of the World's hottest pepper by Guinness World Records.