Carolina Reaper chili pepper dethroned after 10 years! The Guinness Book of World Records declared Pepper X, a chili from South Carolina, “the hottest pepper in the world.” Pepper X registers 2.69 million Scoville heat units, beating even Pepper Spray, which registers 1.6 million SHU. The new hottest chili in the world was prepared by Ed Currie, who said: “I felt the heat for three and a half hours” after consuming it.
A Carolina Reaper variety of pepper is seen on Tuesday, October 11, 2023, in Fort Mill, SC. The Carolina Reaper was the hottest pepper in the Guinness Book of World Records before being overtaken by Pepper X. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)(AP )
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According to Guinness World Records, Pepper X’s unique curves and ridges provide more surface area for the placenta to grow. The greenish-yellow pepper first debuted on the web series Hot Ones, in which celebrities are challenged to eat 10 hot wings with progressively hotter sauces. Currie, who is one of only five people to try this fireball, documented his experience, saying, “Those cramps are horrible, I laid on a marble wall for about an hour in the rain, moaning in pain,” according to the New York Post.
The creator of Pepper X has spent more than a decade nurturing it and wants to protect its intellectual property. He said, “We’ve covered genetics, we’ve covered chemistry, we’ve covered botany.” Currie also explained how his family and his workers have to benefit from it before any seeds are released for sale. For now, only Pepper X hot sauces will be available.
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This brutal chili was created from a cross between the Carolina Reaper and a secret hot chili given to Currie by his friend in Michigan. Despite working on Pepper X for 10 years, Currie said it’s “not the pinnacle” as he longs to create more hot chili peppers in the future.
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