âPepper Xâ said to be worldâs hottest chili burns with twice the heat of Carolina Reaper
Ed Currie
âWeâre playing with fire â said  pepper breeder Ed Currie  when announcing  his  new pepper on a recent episode of First We Feastâs âHot Onesâ web series.
âPepper X is three times hotter than any other peppers that are out there available commercially â  he  claimed. âItâs twice as hot as the Reaper at 1.6 million  so this is a dangerous pepper.â
Measuring in at an alleged 3.18 Scoville units  Pepper X would be hotter than Carolina Reaper by a margin of more than 1 million Scoville units. (The Carolina Reaper measures an average of 1.9 million on the Scoville scale   Currie  says. However  when it was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2013  it was listed at around 1.56 million Scoville units  reports Food & Wine.) Currieâs claims would also make Pepper X effectively hotter than the Dragonâs Breath  which was recently reported to be hotter than the Carolina Reaper when it debuted in May  boasting a Scoville score of 2.4 million.
 Currie  says his new Pepper X peppers have not yet been officially recognized as the worldâs hottest by the Guinness Book of World Records  though heâs hopeful the results will come through in November.
Furthermore   Currie  is confident that a Pepper X sauce he made for "Hot Ones " which is exclusively available at a site called Heatonist  will be found to be âthe hottest natural sauce on the planetâ when more lab test results come in. Meanwhile  the first 1 000 already sold out within two minutes  according to First We Feast.
 Currie  later revealed on Twitter that âPepper Xâ is only a âtemporaryâ name for  his  new pepper.  He  also says  he  has no official plans to make the peppers or the seeds themselves available for purchase  at least until âthe record is secured.â
âWeâre playing with fire â said   [TGT] when announcing   [TGT]   new pepper on a recent episode of First We Feastâs âHot Onesâ web series.
âPepper X is three times hotter than any other peppers that are out there available commercially â  he  claimed. âItâs twice as hot as the Reaper at 1.6 million  so this is a dangerous pepper.â
Measuring in at an alleged 3.18 Scoville units  Pepper X would be hotter than Carolina Reaper by a margin of more than 1 million Scoville units. (The Carolina Reaper measures an average of 1.9 million on the Scoville scale    [TGT] says. However  when it was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2013  it was listed at around 1.56 million Scoville units  reports Food & Wine.) Currieâs claims would also make Pepper X effectively hotter than the Dragonâs Breath  which was recently reported to be hotter than the Carolina Reaper when it debuted in May  boasting a Scoville score of 2.4 million.
  [TGT] says  [TGT]  new Pepper X peppers have not yet been officially recognized as the worldâs hottest by the Guinness Book of World Records  though  [TGT]  hopeful the results will come through in November.
Furthermore    [TGT] is confident that a Pepper X sauce he made for "Hot Ones " which is exclusively available at a site called Heatonist  will be found to be âthe hottest natural sauce on the planetâ when more lab test results come in. Meanwhile  the first 1 000 already sold out within two minutes  according to First We Feast.
  [TGT] later revealed on Twitter that âPepper Xâ is only a âtemporaryâ name for   [TGT]   new pepper.   [TGT]   also says   [TGT]   has no official plans to make the peppers or the seeds themselves available for purchase  at least until âthe record is secured.â