An S.C. Expert Broke His Own Guinness World Record For Hottest Pepper

Ed Currie explained the first time he tried Pepper X, he was feeling the heat for over three hours and he literally got extreme cramps from how hot it was.

A South Carolina hot pepper expert has broken his own record in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Ed Currie crossbred and grew the Carolina Reaper which held the hottest pepper record since 2013. Now, he has created ‘Pepper X’ that was publicly named the hottest pepper on October 9th, beating out the Reaper in Currie’s decade-long hunt to perfect a pepper that he says provides ‘immediate, brutal heat.’

Currie explained the first time he tried Pepper X, he was feeling the heat for over three hours and he literally got extreme cramps from how hot it was.

Heat in peppers is measured in Scoville heat units, for example, Pepper Spray is an average of 1.6 million units. The Pepper X’s record is an average 2.69 million units which is ranked over Bear Spray that advertises at 2.2 million units.