The Carolina Reaper is the stuff of internet legend, from ghastly YouTube videos to testimonials in gourmet cooking magazines. Now this pepper, billed as the world’s hottest, has made it into a ...

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the hottest peppers in the world are the Carolina Reaper peppers grown in South Carolina by Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Co. Currie spent more than ...

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

Ed Currie, the South Carolina hot pepper expert who crossbred and grew the Carolina Reaper that’s hotter than most pepper sprays police use to subdue unruly criminals, has broken his own world record ...

Move on over, Carolina Reaper. There’s a new world’s hottest pepper -- Pepper X. A new pepper named Pepper X is now the world’s hottest chili pepper, according to Guinness World Records, surpassing ...

FORT MILL, S.C. - Ed Currie holds one of his world-record Carolina Reaper peppers by the stem, which looks like the tail of a scorpion. On the other end is the bumpy, oily, fire-engine red fruit with ...

Reporting from FORT MILL, S.C. — How hot is Smokin’ Ed’s Carolina Reaper chile pepper? It’s so hot that when you walk into the chile sorting room at Ed Currie’s PuckerButt Pepper Co., your eyes burn ...

A 34-year-old man sought relief from painful "thunderclap" headaches in the emergency room after eating the world's hottest chili pepper, known as the "Carolina Reaper." The incident is documented ...