In 1912, chemist Wilbur Scoville developed a method to measure the heat level of chile peppers. The test is named after him, the "Scoville Organoleptic Test." In the original test, Wilbur blended pure ...

A new pepper three times hotter than the previous Guinness World Record holder hit the market this week. Pepper X rates at an average of 2.693 million Scoville Heat Units (SHU), a measure of pungency ...

A small, wrinkly yellow-green pepper known as Pepper X is now officially the hottest chili pepper in the world, according to Guinness World Records. Ed Currie, founder of PuckerButt Pepper Company in ...

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 ...

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 small, yellow-greenish chili pepper that’s taken more than a decade to cultivate has out scaled all others including one from its developer, earning the official title of the hottest chili ...

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 ...

Capsaicin is the compound responsible for determining just how hot a variety of chili pepper will be; the higher the capsaicin levels, the hotter the pepper. There are several methods for quantifying ...