There's a new king of spicy peppers: Pepper X, grown by the same man who developed the Carolina Reaper, was tested and found to have an average heat of 2.693 million Scovilles.

An employee in a Carolina Reaper shirt looks over one of Ed Currie's greenhouses on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in Fort Mill, S.C. Currie has created a new pepper called Pepper X that how now been ...

Pepper X measures an average of 2.693 million Scoville Heat Units, while the Carolina Reaper has an average rating of 1.64 million SHU. For context, a jalapeño can have a rating of between 3,000 ...

Pepper X has been in the works since Currie last set the hottest pepper record in 2013 with the Carolina Reaper, a bright red knobby fruit with what aficionados call a scorpion tail.

Heat in peppers is measured in Scoville Heat Units. Zero is bland, and a regular jalapeno pepper registers about 5,000 units. A habanero, the record-holder about 25 years ago, typically tops 100,000.

Pepper X was publicly named the hottest pepper in the world on Oct. 9 by the Guinness Book of World Records, beating out the Reaper in Currie’s decadelong hunt to perfect a pepper that he says ...

Pepper X has been in the works since Ed Currie last set the hottest pepper record in 2013 with the Carolina Reaper, a bright red knobby fruit with what aficionados call a scorpion tail.

South Carolina SC creator of Carolina Reaper has new hottest pepper on Earth. See it tried on YouTube’s Hot Ones By Lyn Riddle Updated October 18, 2023 7:44 AM ...

Ed Currie holds up his certification that his new Pepper X variety of peppers is the hottest in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in Fort Mill, S.C.

His lawyers have counted more than 10,000 products that use the Carolina Reaper name, or its other intellectual property, without permission. Currie is protecting Pepper X.