Posted on 10/17/2023 9:50:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
VIDEO AT LINK..................
Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The Carolina Reaper is no longer the hottest chili pepper in the world, after the same grower unveiled Pepper X.
Carolina Reapers average 1.64 million Scoville Heat Units, while Pepper X rates an average 2,693,000 SHU, a team at South Carolina's Winthrop University determined.
Jalapeño peppers typically come in at 3,000 to 8,000 SHU.
Guinness World Records announced Pepper X is now officially the world's hottest chili pepper.
Ed Currie, founder of Puckerbutt Pepper Company and creator of the Carolina Reaper pepper, unveiled Pepper X on popular YouTube channel First We Feast. He said it took about 10 years of breeding to develop the super hot pepper.
"When we started the cross, there were two peppers that I really loved the flavor of, but neither of them were gonna be hot enough for my tastes," he said in the video.
Pepper X is being kept proprietary for the moment, meaning pods and seeds will not be made commercially available. The public will be able to try the pepper through the release of Pepper X hot sauces.
Puckerbutt Pepper Company. (ROTFL) Sounds like you’re going to need to see Dr. Pepper if you eat one of these bad boys.
Nope, nope, nope. I’ll stick with Wickles pickles, thank you. Hot and tasty enough.
WANT!
At what point do they become lethal peppers?.......................
I heard half the fun was eating the hot peppers and the other half of the fun was crapping them out. No thank you.
Eat a whole one of these and I’ll bet it’s at least close to lethal
Betcha can’t eat just one!....................
In dad’s day, the hottest Chile pepper was “Police Woman” Pepper Anderson.
She’s 92 now.
The video in Post #9 says they are over 1M Scoville units HOTTER than the Carolina Reapers.
LOL! Betcha can’t eat more than one!
I wish I knew but lethal is different for different people. I had a friend take a small piece, a Pinky tip, of habanero and he nearly went to the hospital when his airway constricted on a third shift I was working with him. We slammed him with oxygen by mask and I can’t remember if we got the piece out or he swallowed it. Fun night. /sarc
LOL, I cannot believe I am the first to post that I rolled my eyes when I saw this, thinking “Great, an new wave of dumb-ass Tik Toker’s killing themselves to eat a new type of pepper...
Though I do admit, I totally enjoyed watching the whole orchestra eat really hot peppers and then try to play a piece of music!
What’s the point?
Will they make you sign a waiver first before eating it?
True.
This is why you should always eat ice cream after eating hot peppers...So the next day you can say...Come on ice cream!!!
I’m good with ghosts. Although I am a little curious.
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