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 without dabbing hot sauce onto your dish, you likely know that the ...

Ed Currie, the South Carolina hot pepper expert who crossbred and grew the Carolina Reaper that’s hotter than most pepper sprays police use to subdue unruly criminals, has broken his own world record ...

The man who brought the world the famously, unbelievably hot Carolina Reaper — hottest chili pepper in the world according to Guinness Book of World Records — has been thinking up something new.

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.

FORT MILL, S.C. — Ed Currie, the South Carolina hot pepper expert who crossbred and grew the Carolina Reaper that’s hotter than most pepper sprays police use to subdue unruly criminals, has broken his ...

PuckerButt Pepper Company founder Ed Currie is on a mission to create the world's hottest peppers. Ed is the evil genius who brought the world the Carolina Reaper, one of the hottest hot peppers in ...

Named the world’s hottest pepper by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2013, this bright red, shriveled-looking pepper was created by American pepper breeder Ed Currie. The Carolina Reaper is ...