Smokin' Ed Currie is the man behind Pepper X and the Carolina Reaper, the world's two hottest peppers according to the ...

The Guinness World Records has crowned Pepper X as the hottest chili pepper in the world, dethroning the Carolina Reaper chili pepper after 10 years. For comparison, a habanero pepper typically ...

A man who ate the world's hottest chilli pepper in a chilli-eating contest ended up in hospital after experiencing "thunderclap" headaches. The 34-year-old man had eaten one Carolina Reaper chilli ...

Born in Alabama, educated in the U.S. and in Europe, Martin lives in Alabama and in Prague. Fluent in German, he is at work on a history of the East German secret police for Alfred A. Knopf ...

Capsicums, like peppers and chiles, draw their heat from capsaicinoids ... an uncanny 2,693,000 SHU when it dethroned the Carolina Reaper, which clocks in at 2.2 million SHU.

Bake the peppers and garlic until there is a slight char on the skins. Be careful not to burn them, and most importantly, BEWARE OF FUMES! Approximately 350 degrees at 30 minutes is good.

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.

Another hot tip is to put the salt on last so as not to draw moisture out of the ... For a while, the Carolina Reaper was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the hottest pepper on the ...

Parts of southeastern North Carolina were experiencing "life-threatening flash flooding'' Monday as a potential tropical system brought rain totals usually not seen in hundreds of years ...

the Unnecessarily Spicy Yet Extremely Tasty Carolina Reaper Pepper Curry Wings served with creamy cucumber raita. To wash it all down, order a beer flight, or for those who love pickles ...