Bhut Jolokia or Naga Mircha from India's northeast was recorded as the world's hottest chilli pepper in 2007. It is becoming ...

a habanero pepper typically hits 100,000 Scoville heat units, but Pepper X registers at 2.69 million units. Breeder and grower Ed Currie created both record-breaking peppers. As a proprietary ...

Previously, the Carolina Reaper was the hottest pepper in the world. The Carolina Reaper was created by Ed Currie ... one million units higher on the Scoville scale -- the unit of measurement ...

Currie is also the creator of that pepper, the Carolina Reaper. Wilbur Scoville created his namesake metric in 1912, which measures the concentration levels of capsaicin within the pepper.

Ranked as the Guinness World Record’s hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper peaked at about 2.2 million Scoville Heat Units, the scale used to rank how spicy peppers are.

Reporter Jeffrey Collins leveraged his decade-long relationship with South Carolina pepper grower Ed Currie and teamed with video journalist Erik Verduzco to win AP access and become the first ...