![]() ![]() This pepper is sneaky when it comes to taste as it starts out with its fruity flavor, the intensity builds and builds until the heat is too much and it feels like you’re breathing fire out of your mouth.ħ Pot Douglah peppers are a variation of the “7 Pot” pepper family, the name deriving from the pepper’s ability to spice up seven pots of stew with one pod. A crow between a 7 Pot and a Ghost Pepper, the Komodo Dragon rivals the Reaper in terms of SHUs, but has a delicious fruity flavor that singes every one of your taste buds. The Komodo Dragon Pepper came on the scene in 2015 poised to dethrone the Carolina Reaper as the hottest pepper in the world. In other words, handle these peppers with caution. That’s according to Danise Coon, Senior Research Specialist at New Mexico State University, whose handling of the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion during testing was unlike anything that she had ever experienced before with super-hot peppers. The capsaicin can be strong enough to penetrate through latex gloves… multiple times over. You can put this on your food to give it a massive kick or apply it to your garden as a pest repellant – the uses of the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion are far and wide.Ī side note: don’t underestimate the heat on this pepper. One of the most underrated peppers on this list, the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion can pack just as hot of a punch as the Reaper does, yet provides an almost fruity, cotton-candy-like flavor when you taste it. Read our list below of peppers that are officially, or are suspected to be, hotter than the former World's Hottest Chili Pepper.īefore the Carolina Reaper was dubbed the World’s Hottest Pepper back in 2013, this pepper held that honor the year prior. However, both unofficial (and, until recently, official) tests held around the world indicate that there are peppers out there that blow the Reaper away in terms of heat. And recently, there has been one contender who has taken the crown away from this fiery juggernaut.Īccording to Guinness World Records, the Carolina Reaper officially became the hottest chili pepper in the world on November 14, 2013, reaching 1,569,000 Scoville Heat Units, although some Reapers have apparently tested even higher! For a while, this pepper dominated the growing community with its unique flavor and high-intensity heat. However, you’d also know that other pepper gurus are constantly trying to out-do the Reaper by growing pepper strains that pack some serious (we mean serious) heat. As well as livening up dishes, the heat also makes the body produce pleasurable endorphins afterwards.įormer record holder the Bhut Jolokia chilli registers at just over 800,000 SHU – potent enough for the Indian military to use it as an ingredient in a counter-terrorism hand grenade used for immobilising adversaries.If you consider yourself a chili pepper guru, you know by now that the Carolina Reaper pepper is on record as the former hottest pepper in the world. The heat comes from the substance "capsaicin" which is found in all chillies. While commonly referred to as vegetables, chillies are in fact fruit from the plant genus "Capsicum". To give an indication of the Carolina Reaper’s spiciness, a Jalapeno can score anything between 2,500 to 8,000 SHU on the scale. "So I've been researching how not to die."Ĭhilli heat is measured by the Scoville Heat Unit (SHU) designed by American chemist Wilbur Scoville in 1912. ![]() "My family dies from cancer a lot," Ed explains. His record-breaking Carolina Reaper has been ten years in the making, having meticulously worked on stabilising and testing the pepper, which is a crossing between Sweet Habanero and Naga Viper chillies.Įd says his interest in chillies became more serious after learning that capsaicin had potential as a cancer fighting drug, a discovery which led to him donating one-half of his pepper harvest last year to cancer research. Having started growing chillies as a hobby over 20 years ago, Ed quit his job last year to concentrate full time on cultivating his “weapon quality peppers”. The Carolina Reaper is described as having a fruity, sweet taste with a hint of cinnamon and chocolate undertones, as well as being hot. The Carolina Reaper’s heat rating beats the former record holder for most fiery chilli, the Trinidad Scorpion "Butch T" grown by The Chilli Factory (Australia), which was rated at 1,463,700 Scoville Heat Units (SHU) in March 2011. Grown by the suitably named Ed Currie from the PuckerButt Pepper Company, Smokin Ed's Carolina Reaper delivers an average of 1,569,300 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), a figure now confirmed by Guinness World Records. With its humid subtropical climate, the American state of South Carolina has a reputation for its hot summers, but it now has a new claim to fame for heat, with confirmation that a local producer has developed the world’s hottest chilli. ![]()
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