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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even the Yorubas, known for their love for pepper, might not be able to eat this. It is more than one million units hotter than the former world's hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper, which averaged 1 ...

New record: Fastest time to eat 50 carolina reaper chilli peppers - 6 minutes and 49.20 seconds by Mike Jack He eventually went on to eat 135 peppers in this one ...