Hottest pepper in the world

2023 - 10 - 17

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The new world's hottest pepper, Pepper X, is 3 times spicier than its ... (NPR)

Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Company in South Carolina said his team stabilized Pepper X about a decade ago, but only released it now because no one had ...

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Guinness World Records crowns new hottest pepper (BBC News)

Pepper X registers at 2.69 million Scoville Heat Units - pepper spray is about 1.6 million units.

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Guinness World Records declares Pepper X as world's new hottest ... (CNN)

Chili Pepper X has taken the spicy record as the world's hottest, Guinness World Records announced Monday.

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Move aside, California Reaper. Pepper X is now officially the world's ... (USA TODAY)

Ed Currie has spent the last ten years working on a pepper three times hotter than world's hottest chilli pepper, the Carolina Reaper.

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New Guinness World Record spiciest pepper, 'Pepper X,' is three ... (Fox News)

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 ...

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'Pepper X' named the world's spiciest pepper by Guinness World ... (NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)

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 ...

There's a new hottest pepper in the world and it's called Pepper X (WUNC)

It was grown by the maker of the former hottest pepper in the world. The Scoville Scale, which measures heat, indicates a regular jalapeno is usually up to ...

There's a new hottest pepper in the world and it's called Pepper X (Texas Public Radio)

It was grown by the maker of the former hottest pepper in the world. The Scoville Scale, which measures heat, indicates a regular jalapeno is usually up to ...

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X marks hottest pepper in the world – here are the four others (The National)

Pepper X comes from the same farmer whose Carolina Reaper was, until now, top of the hot crops.

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He held the world record for hottest pepper. Then his Pepper X ... (The Washington Post)

Ed Currie and his PuckerButt Pepper Company created the Carolina Reaper, which bagged the Guinness World Records title for spiciest chile pepper on the ...

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New hottest pepper burns its way to a Guinness World Record (KTNV Las Vegas)

The world's new spiciest pepper officially has no chill whatsoever. Fans of hot and spicy food have something new to add to their menu. A tiny new pepper on ...

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Pepper X crowned hottest pepper in the world | Here & Now (Here And Now)

A regular jalapeño comes in at about 8000 on the Scoville Scale ranking heat of peppers. Pepper X is about 2.7 million.

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World's new hottest pepper, Pepper X, was crossbred with one from ... (Detroit Free Press)

A chili pepper, Pepper X, that was recently rated as the hottest in the world is a crossbreed with a pepper grown in Michigan.

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Meet 'Pepper X,' the New World's Hottest Pepper (Food & Wine)

Ed Currie, the South Carolina hot pepper grower (and apparently a full-time spice masochist), has just claimed a Guinness World Record for Pepper X, a fiery hot ...

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