FORT MILL, S.C. - 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world has a new hottest pepper. And it comes from our backyard, right in Fort Mill. The Guinness Book of World Records recently certified Pepper X, as it’s called. Just how hot is it? The heat in ...

FORT MILL, S.C. — 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 ...

He's looking to beat his own world record. Food & Wine / Puckerbutt Pepper Co. The man who developed the “hottest pepper in the (known) world” is the legendary farmer and pepper-sauce manufacturer and ...

Pepper X, the world's hottest pepper Guinness World Records South Carolina pepper expert Ed Currie has crossbred a new type of pepper that’s three times spicier than the Carolina Reaper, the previous ...