The hottest batch of Currie's peppers, code named HP22B -- Higher Power, Pot No. 22, Plant B -- clocked in at 2.2 million on the Scoville scale. Currie sells Carolina Reaper seeds and hot sauces ...

Carolina Reaper (on average 1.64 million ) Pepper X ( 2.693 million) Contrary to popular belief, the seeds of a pepper pod don’t make it hot.

Guinness World Records crowned Pepper X the world's hottest pepper. It measures in at a blistering 2.693 million Scoville Heat Units. It dethroned the previous winner, the Carolina Reaper ...

Reporting from FORT MILL, S.C. — How hot is Smokin’ Ed’s Carolina Reaper chile pepper? It’s so hot that when you walk into the chile sorting room at Ed Currie’s PuckerButt Pepper Co ...

You might want to grab a cold glass of milk for this one. The same breeder behind the Carolina Reaper pepper, which was recognized as the world’s hottest by the Guinness Book of World Records ...

A Carolina Reaper pepper, meanwhile, measures at an average rating of 1.64 million SHU. A jalapeño, for additional context, is on average between 3,000 and 8,000 SHU.

“Pepper X is three times hotter than any other peppers that are out there available commercially,” he claimed. “It’s twice as hot as the Reaper at 1.6 million, so this is a dangerous ...

According to Guinness, Pepper X, which, like the Carolina Reaper, was developed by Currie and his PuckerButt Pepper Company, has an average rating of 2,693,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU).

Pepper X measures an average of 2.693 million Scoville Heat Units. A jalapeño, by comparison, measures just 2,000 to 8,000 SHUs, while a serrano can land between 10,000 and 23,000 SHUs.