Ed Currie holds a handful of his Pepper X peppers on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in Fort Mill, S.C. The pepper is now the hottest pepper variety in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins) 7 of 7 | An employee in a Carolina Reaper sh...
The title of “hottest pepper in the world” is something that’s challenged more often than you may expect. Every year hot pepper cultivators find new ways to hybridize chilies and utilize their environment (soil, water, sunlight) to create peppers that will compete for the top position. Bel...
New hot peppers like Carolina Reaper, Dragon's Breath and Pepper X are created every year. Learn which hot pepper ranks #1 in 2025 as World's Hottest Pepper
The Scoville scale is used to measure the spiciness of chilli peppers and is based on the concentration of capsaicin – the active component of chilli peppers that creates a burning sensation when it comes into contact with human tissue. A common misconception is that the heat of chilli peppers...
Best Peppers! I absolutely love all the products. I have planted only a few of my seeds but didn't make it. I believe its because I live in Montana and it is very cold this part of the season. I will try again in a few month. But I did get some Carolina Reaper Power!!! I ...
Hellfire Hot Sauce crafts gourmet hot sauces and the hottest hot sauces in the world with organic peppers. Taste our firey hot sauces featured on Hot Ones!
You'll find Carolina Reapers, one of the world's hottest peppers in this hot sauce, which measures between 250,000 and 1 million SHU. But it's got a hit of sweetness, too, thanks to sweetblack cherriesandcranberries. Sarah Weinberg ...
Bhut jolokia chiles are the world's hottest chile pepper, with a Guinness World Record to prove it. Even with gloves and a mask, there are certain things to consider before plunging into working with fresh jolokias.
“When we started the cross, there were two peppers that I really loved the flavour of, but neither of them were gonna be hot enough for my tastes,” he revealed in aFirst We Feast video. Creating brand new breeds of pepper requires a lot of patience. With plants in...
Ed Currie broke his own Guinness record when he created Pepper X, the hottest in the world.Courtesy of First We Feast Currie started growing hot peppers as a hobby, eventually moving on to cultivating them full time. The pepper grower raised 800 hot pepper plants "in every inch of his hom...