Scoville units are a popular way to judge how spicy certain peppers are, but just how does the scoring method go about ...

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 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.

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 until ...

Ed Currie, owner of PuckerButt Pepper Company, shows off the Carolina Reaper, certified the world’s hottest pepper. Currie told Fort Mill police some of his world record peppers may have been stolen ...

Move on over, Carolina Reaper. There’s a new world’s hottest pepper -- Pepper X. A new pepper named Pepper X is now the world’s hottest chili pepper, according to Guinness World Records, surpassing ...

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the hottest peppers in the world are the Carolina Reaper peppers grown in South Carolina by Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Co. Currie spent more than ...

Until recently, the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion was known as the world’s hottest chile pepper. But according to the Guinness Book of World Records last month, it’s now the Carolina Reaper grown by Ed ...

In this year’s Don’t Fear the Reaper challenge at Musso Farms, Marcus Jones went the extra 2 million Scoville units to take home the grand prize of a $250 silver and gold bracelet from Armstrong ...

The incendiary Carolina Reaper chili pepper is one of the most feared and most beloved peppers in the world of spicy foods. It's a common villain in food challenges across the country, testing the ...

Thunderclap headaches are so named because they make you feel like your cranium has been struck with the force of a thunderstorm. Their dramatic, debilitating pain strikes without a warning and can ...