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 new pepper variety is about twice as hot as the Carolina Reaper. Mark Meredith/Getty Images If you can't get through a meal without dabbing hot sauce onto your dish, you likely know that the ...

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 ...

Pepper X is the hottest chilli in the world, according to a statement from Guinness World Records. The chilli is around 500 times hotter than a jalapeno. The squat, greenish-yellow pepper measures a ...

Are you ready for the ultimate spice challenge? We made compound butters with Scorpion and Carolina Reaper peppers—two of the ...

FORT MILL, S.C. (AP) — Ed Currie, the South Carolina hot pepper expert who crossbred and grew the Carolina Reaper that's hotter than most pepper sprays police use to subdue unruly criminals, has ...

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 ...

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Primula has announced the launch of its spiciest product yet: Primula Cheese with Carolina Reaper. The Carolina Reaper SKU (rsp: £1.85/140g) combines real cheese with the spicy chilli. The brand said ...

New record: Fastest time to eat 50 carolina reaper chilli peppers - 6 minutes and 49.20 seconds by Mike Jack He eventually went on to eat 135 peppers in this one ...

Carolina Reaper chilli peppers come with a fearsome reputation. It's not long since it was the world's hottest pepper before losing its title to the Pepper X and is often seen as something of a ...