The Carolina Reaper has been officially dethroned as the world’s hottest chili pepper. PuckerButt Pepper Co. founder and pepper expert Ed Currie has spent the past 10 years working on Pepper X, a ...

The Reaper pizza sauce is made with Carolina Reaper peppers, which are considered the hottest chili peppers on the planet.

Ed Currie, owner of PuckerButt Pepper Company, shows off the Carolina Reaper, certified the world’s hottest pepper. Currie told Fort Mill police some of his world record peppers may have been stolen ...

The Carolina Reaper averages around 1.6 million SHUs, but can reach over two million. Of the hottest peppers to grow at home, ...

The Carolina Reaper, created by Fort Mill’s Ed Currie, is no longer listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the hottest chili pepper in the world. Now Currie has topped his own record with ...

The Guinness World Records title of "hottest chili pepper" has been awarded to "Pepper X," which clocks in 2,693,000 Scoville heat units (SHU), the publication announced in a press release on Oct. 16.

There’s a new no. 1 hottie in town. A sweltering South Carolina chili named Pepper X has captured the Guinness World Record for the world’s hottest pepper, beating out former title holder the Carolina ...

Move on over, Carolina Reaper. There’s a new world’s hottest pepper -- Pepper X. A new pepper named Pepper X is now the world’s hottest chili pepper, according to Guinness World Records, surpassing ...

March 6 (UPI) --An iron-stomached speed eater broke a Guinness World Record by eating 25 Carolina reaper chili peppers in 4 minutes and 36.26 seconds. Mike Jack, a Canadian YouTuber famous for his ...