I was laid out flat on a marble wall for approximately an hour in the rain, groaning in pain.”Ĭurrie told BBC News that the development of Pepper X at his South Carolina farm was kept under wraps, a cautionary approach that was likely fueled by the fallout from his development of the Carolina Reaper. Then the cramps came,” said Currie, one of only five people so far to eat an entire Pepper X, per AP. “I was feeling the heat for three-and-a-half hours. While Pepper X establishes a new benchmark for Currie’s pursuit of the ultimate hot pepper, his accounting of actually consuming his new creation isn’t exactly enticing. The pepper is now the hottest pepper variety in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)įor just a bit more context, the pepper sprays typically used by law enforcement measure around 1.6 million Scoville units and the spray designed to fend off aggressive bears, about 2.2 million units, according to the Associated Press. Currie’s Carolina Reaper hit a blistering 1.64 million Scoville units but not the newly crowned world champ, Pepper X, raises the bar to 2.69 million units.Įd Currie holds a handful of his Pepper X peppers on Tuesday, Oct. ![]() Habaneros typically hit about 100,000 on the Scoville measure and the Ghost Pepper about 1 million. His Scoville scale measures the concentration of capsaicin, the chemical irritant that reads as “heat” to the human brain. Well, for reference, those jalapeño slices on your nachos come in at about 5,000 Scoville Heat Units, a measure developed in the early 1900s by pharmacist William Scoville. SALT LAKE CITY - Back in 2013, hot pepper expert Ed Currie set the world record with the Carolina Reaper, his aptly named hybrid that blew by the competition and has held the top spot for the past decade.īut Currie and his team have been busy since then and the latest product of his heat-focused cross-breeding, Pepper X, took a sickle to the Reaper’s record and earlier this month was certified by Guinness World Records as the hottest pepper on the planet.
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