Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Carolina Reaper has been officially dethroned as the world’s hottest chili pepper. PuckerButt Pepper Co. founder and pepper ...

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 criminals, has broken his own world record ...

Move on over, Carolina Reaper. There’s a new world’s hottest pepper -- Pepper X. A new pepper named Pepper X is now the world’s hottest chili pepper, according to Guinness World Records, surpassing ...

On a scale from 1 to 10, what level of spice or heat are you most comfortable eating with your food? Some of us like it hot, some prefer it mild, at best, and most people are probably somewhere ...

FORT MILL, N.C. — If you think the Carolina Reaper is hot — or not hot enough — wait until you get a taste of the new pepper created by the Reaper’s maker. Eddie Currie, the man who created the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new pepper variety is about twice as hot as the Carolina Reaper. Mark Meredith/Getty Images If you can't get through a meal ...

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 ...