The current Guinness World Record holder for the hottest pepper is the Carolina Reaper, which averages over 1.6 million Scoville Heat Units, with the hottest one peaking at 2.2 million. Some believe that there i
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Matt Gross, post-pepper eating Now my throat was really beginning to swell up—and painfully. I had a half-bottle of water in my bag. I drank it down. Other competitors employed other coolants: milk, soda, olive oil, yogurt drinks. (One guy actually sprinted to the bathroom to throw...
The Carolina Reaper is the hottest chili pepper on earth. It was bred by a man in South Carolina by crossing a ghost chili—the second hottest pepper in the world—with a habañero. It has aScoville heat unit(the metric used to measure spice) of 1.6 million. For comparison, a...