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Man Crossbreeds Carolina Reaper With “Brutally Hot” Mystery Pepper, Beats His Own Guinness World Record
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Man Crossbreeds Carolina Reaper With “Brutally Hot” Mystery Pepper, Beats His Own Guinness World Record

Man Crossbreeds Carolina Reaper With Expert Breaks His Own Record, Creates The Hottest Pepper Ever That Leaves People People Applaud Man Who Spent 10 Years Coming Up With Pepper X, The Hottest Pepper In The WorldMan Crossbreeds Carolina Reaper With Mystery Pepper, Creates “The Hottest Pepper In The World”Pepper Expert Beats His Own Guinness Book Record After Creating Man Crossbreeds Carolina Reaper With “Brutally Hot” Mystery Pepper, Beats His Own Guinness World RecordPepper Expert Creates Man Scorches His Own World Heat Record By Revealing Pepper X, Which Delivers
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A decade ago, the hot pepper expert Ed Currie was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records for creating the Carolina Reaper, a bright red fruit with a “scorpion tail”, as risk takers like to call it.

Ten years later, the South Carolina aficionado has done it again. His latest creation, Pepper X, was named the hottest pepper in the world on Oct. 9.

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While not all of us are willing to try it, we can still get a glimpse of its effects by comparing it to other products in the Scoville Heat Units scale. A habanero registers 100,000 units, whereas the Carolina Reaper scores a whopping 1.64 million units.

Pepper X, a crossbreed of a Carolina Reaper and a pepper that one of Currie’s friends sent from Michigan, scores 2.69 million units. That’s even higher than pepper sprays administered by police, which score 1.6 million units.

The greenish vegetable is hotter than a police pepper spray

Image credits: TIME

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Only five people have dared to eat an entire Pepper X. The creator’s account of the agonizing experience is a clear indicator of why that number isn’t higher.

As he explained, the greenish vegetable delivers “immediate, brutal heat.”

“I was feeling the heat for three-and-a-half hours. Then the cramps came,” he told ABC. “Those cramps are horrible. I was laid out flat on a marble wall for approximately an hour in the rain, groaning in pain.”

His past creation, the Carolina Reaper, registered 1.64 million units in the Scoville Heat Units scale, compared to Pepper X’s 2.69 units

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He also warned youngsters about taking a bite out of the deadly pepper—or any other extremely hot pepper—for internet challenges, which he believes to be stupid.

Those wanting to venture into the hot pepper universe must take it one at a time instead of starting with a Carolina Reaper or Pepper X. “You build up a tolerance,” he explained.

Currie said that Pepper X provides “immediate, brutal heat” and that he felt the burning heat for three-and-a-half hours

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The burning sensation we feel after consuming hot peppers comes from a chemical called capsaicin. Human minds perceive it as a threat, which is why they send a strong burning signal to the body. As birds don’t feel this heat, they can spread pepper seeds without feeling pain.

Only five people in the world have eaten an entire Pepper X

Image credits: First We Feast

Looking at this reaction, it’s pretty obvious why that is

Image credits: First We Feast

As opposed to the previous decade, Currie now wants to reap the rewards of his newly created veg.

Over the past ten years, many people grew the Carolina Reaper, and thousands of companies profited from using the pepper’s name. Therefore, the pepper expert has decided not to commercialize Pepper X seeds until he has found the legal means to benefit from the sales.

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Ed Currie took his latest creation to First We Feast’s famous show, ‘Hot Ones’

Image credits: First We Feast

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You can watch Ed show off his tongue-burning achievement in the video below

His decade-long commitment to creating the vegetable included five years of testing and documenting its average heat over different plants and generations. “We covered the genetics, we covered the chemistry, we covered the botany,” he said.

Currie’s passion for growing peppers began as a way to overcome his drug and alcohol addiction. Unlike toxic substances, he says, the high that peppers provide is 100%  natural.

While some bold individuals said they wanted to try the pepper, others simply passed

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Hey there! I'm a Visual Editor in News team. My responsibility is to ensure that you can read the story not just through text, but also through photos. I get to work with a variety of topics ranging from celebrity drama to mind-blowing Nasa cosmic news. And let me tell you, that's what makes this job an absolute blast! Outside of work, you can find me sweating it out in dance classes or unleashing my creativity by drawing and creating digital paintings of different characters that lives in my head. I also love spending time outdoors and play board games with my friends.

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JayWantsACat
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Come to Asia and see if you can eat our spices..." Moron, this is the hottest pepper in the world. YOU couldn't handle it so what makes you think your food would be spicier? There's a vid of a guy having Thai folks in Thailand eating Carolina Reaper and not being able to handle it. This isn't a competition about whose cuisine is spicier, this is a literal pepper that hotter than anything that has ever been cultivated.

Chucky Cheezburger
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's gonna be bad coming out too...Bet it comes out so hot that farts self-ignite and launches them like something NASA thought up.

SonicAlchemy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm definitely good on all that! I pride myself a culinarian, always willing to try anything especially if it inspires a new dish but I get absolutely no pleasure out of overwhelming heat. I like to enjoy my meals, not spend the whole time wiping sweat off my forehead and not able to taste the other components. Cool story, though.

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JayWantsACat
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Come to Asia and see if you can eat our spices..." Moron, this is the hottest pepper in the world. YOU couldn't handle it so what makes you think your food would be spicier? There's a vid of a guy having Thai folks in Thailand eating Carolina Reaper and not being able to handle it. This isn't a competition about whose cuisine is spicier, this is a literal pepper that hotter than anything that has ever been cultivated.

Chucky Cheezburger
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's gonna be bad coming out too...Bet it comes out so hot that farts self-ignite and launches them like something NASA thought up.

SonicAlchemy
Community Member
1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm definitely good on all that! I pride myself a culinarian, always willing to try anything especially if it inspires a new dish but I get absolutely no pleasure out of overwhelming heat. I like to enjoy my meals, not spend the whole time wiping sweat off my forehead and not able to taste the other components. Cool story, though.

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