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 ...

FORT MILL, N.C. — If you think the Carolina Reaper is hot — or not hot enough — wait until you get a taste of the new pepper created by the Reaper’s maker. Eddie Currie, the man who created the ...

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.

FORT MILL, S.C. -- 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 broken ...

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 ...

You may like spicy foods, but do you think you could handle the hottest pepper in the world? In the world of record-breaking hot ones, there's a new sheriff in town – the Guinness World Records ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

“Pepper X,” a new variety of pepper that will cause more pain than bear spray, has toppled the Carolina Reaper to become the world’s hottest pepper, according to Guinness World Records. The heat of a ...

A pepper that recently claimed the record for hottest in the world was made with the help of a pepper from Michigan. Ed Currie, a South Carolina hot pepper expert who crossbred and grew the famed ...

Named the world’s hottest pepper by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2013, this bright red, shriveled-looking pepper was created by American pepper breeder Ed Currie. The Carolina Reaper is ...