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.

Pepper X trounced the Carolina Reaper by a margin of 1.05 million Scoville units. In other words, Currie’s gargantuan winning margin of 1.05 million Scoville units beats the chile world’s ...

dethroning the Carolina Reaper chili pepper after 10 years. For comparison, a habanero pepper typically hits 100,000 Scoville heat units, but Pepper X registers at 2.69 million units. Breeder and ...

Carolina Reaper peppers have a notorious reputation ... and their heat factor is uncontended with an average Scoville Heat ...

Are you Team Spice, or do you run from anything remotely hot in your food? The intensity of your reaction may be all in your ...

The new pepper variety is about twice as hot as the Carolina Reaper. If you can't get through a meal without dabbing hot sauce onto your dish, you likely know that the Carolina Reaper has been ...

As temperatures begin to drop, the makers of HORMEL® Chili, America's No. 1 selling chili brand*, are once again heating up ...

Chili available for a limited time As temperatures begin to drop, the makers of Hormel Chili are once again heating up with the return of the limited-edition Hormel Ghost Reaper World's Hottest Chili ...

Two new ready meals made with the world’s hottest pepper are launching in Iceland Foods, but the astonishing spice levels ...

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.