It's impossible to talk about hot peppers without talking about the Scoville scale — the way the hotness of peppers is rated.

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.

If you’ve ever choked down a piece of Carolina Reaper pepper or sweated your way through a splash of Carolina Reaper hot sauce because it was “the hottest pepper in the world,” we hate to break it to ...

A new world-record holder has entered the field of hot peppers: Pepper X. This proprietary pepper, bred by Ed Currie, was recognized in October 2023 by Guinness World Records as the hottest pepper ...

Ed Currie, the South Carolina hot pepper expert who crossbred and grew the Carolina Reaper, has broken his own world record with a pepper that’s three times hotter.Pepper X was publicly named the ...