If you love spicy chicken sandwiches, you're in luck. Popeyes has released its new Ghost Pepper Chicken Sandwich just in time ...

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.

For comparison, 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.

I went up the ranks of the Scoville scale, dosing myself with Thai bird chiles, Scotch bonnets, habaneros, Trinidad Moruga scorpions and bhut jolokias, also known as ghost peppers, whose intensity ...

It made global headlines. Briefly to the stats, then: Pepper X clocks in at a staggering 2.69 million Scoville Heat Units, or SHUs, which are the metric for the power of the capsaicinoids within ...

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.

Pimento peppers are about the size of an orange, and are shaped like a heart (aww). They're slightly higher on the Scoville scale than bell peppers (which, quite literally, have zero Scoville ...