While it’s currently awaiting verification from the Guinness World Records committee, the Pepper X Scoville units are said to have topped the hotness scale at 3,180,000 that’s almost one million Scoville units hotter than the Carolina Reaper! Pepper X, which was also grown by Smokin’ Ed Currie, has taken 10 years to develop, but it is supposed to be far hotter than the Carolina Reaper. While the Carolina Reaper is currently recognized as the hottest pepper in the world, it has some serious competition on the hot pepper scale. To put this amount of heat into perspective, the Carolina Reaper pepper is 200 times hotter than a jalapeño. It beat its own 2013 record by 71,000 SHU to regain its title as the hottest chili pepper in the world. The Guinness Book of World Records recognized Smokin’ Ed’s Carolina Reaper as the hottest chili pepper in the world in 2018. The certified hottest pepper in the world is the Carolina Reaper, at 2,200,000 Scoville units.
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