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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

Oct. 17 (UPI) --The Carolina Reaper is no longer the hottest chili pepper in the world, after the same grower unveiled Pepper X. Carolina Reapers average 1.64 million Scoville Heat Units, while Pepper ...