How the Scoville Scale Works — and Where Your Favorite Chiles Fall “The Carolina Reaper is where it all ... One of those plants’ fruit was especially ugly — big fat body, and a long ...

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.

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 ...

There are so many kinds of peppers to grow and taste, it's time to think outside the jalapeno-shaped box! Learn how to grow ...

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 ...

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.

The heat level of a variety is linked to the genetics of the plant ... Reaper is a popular superhot pepper that originated in ...

The best way to enjoy chillies and experiment with their different strengths is to grow your own.

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. You can ...

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 ...