Pepper X was declared the hottest pepper in the world by Guinness World Records.
Ed Currie holds up one of his Pepper X peppers Oct. 10 in Fort Mill, S.C. The pepper is now the hottest pepper variety in the world, according to Guinness World Records. Ed Currie and his PuckerButt Pepper Company created the Carolina Reaper, which bagged the Guinness World Records title for spiciest chile pepper on the planet a decade ago. But at the time, Currie was already secretly working on one that was even hotter.
Currie, now 60, stashed it away, an ace in the hole to play on the day a rival breeder challenged Carolina Reaper’s spiciness supremacy, he told The Washington Post. The months turned to years, which turned into a decade, but that day never came.that Currie and PuckerButt had topped their own record. Pepper X had officially clocked in with an average of 2.69 million Scoville Heat Units, far spicier than the Carolina Reaper’s 1.64 million.
“It just hurts like mad,” he said, adding that he eats whole peppers only when the cameras are on but usually eats smaller amounts mixed in with his food. Currie said he has learned from the business mistakes he made with his first Guinness record winner. He didn’t legally protect the Carolina Reaper name and let others have its seeds, grow the peppers and use them to create hot sauces and salsas.In one instance, Currie said he discovered someone selling a packet of “Carolina Reaper” seeds that contained a single Reaper seed and a bunch from habaneros.
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