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 ...

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the hottest peppers in the world are the Carolina Reaper peppers grown in South Carolina by Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Co. Currie spent more than ...

You might want to grab a cold glass of milk for this one. The same breeder behind the Carolina Reaper pepper, which was recognized as the world’s hottest by the Guinness Book of World Records until ...

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 without dabbing hot sauce onto your dish, you likely know that the ...

A 34-year-old man sought relief from painful "thunderclap" headaches in the emergency room after eating the world's hottest chili pepper, known as the "Carolina Reaper." The incident is documented ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Carolina Reaper is the stuff of internet legend, from ghastly YouTube videos to testimonials in gourmet cooking magazines. Now this pepper, billed as the world’s hottest, has made it into a ...

Reporting from FORT MILL, S.C. — How hot is Smokin’ Ed’s Carolina Reaper chile pepper? It’s so hot that when you walk into the chile sorting room at Ed Currie’s PuckerButt Pepper Co., your eyes burn ...