Ranked as the Guinness World Record’s hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper peaked at about 2.2 million Scoville Heat Units, the scale used to rank how spicy peppers are.

The Guinness World Records has crowned Pepper X as the hottest chili pepper in the world, dethroning the Carolina Reaper chili pepper after 10 years. For comparison, a habanero pepper typically ...

"If there's the right kind of dessert around, I tend to put something hot on my dessert." Even as a pepper connoisseur, tasting his own creation, Pepper X, which was crowned the world's hottest ...

"Burn baby burn." During the fifth annual event, three men were able to beat the heat, win the money, prestige and bottle of ...

The man who developed the “hottest pepper in the (known) world” is the legendary farmer and pepper-sauce manufacturer and self-taught plant geneticist Ed “Smokin’ Ed” Currie of Fort Mill ...

Apparently, when you taste the world's hottest pepper, both your face and chest feel tight, and it's difficult to form words, as evidenced by the reaction on the YouTube show "Hot Ones." ...

Mung bean liang fen (jelly) crowned with raw green Sichuan pepper.Credit...Photograph by Anthony Cotsifas. Set design by ...

Ghost peppers have a fearsome reputation as one of the world's spiciest chilis, but they add needed punch in the form of ...

which uses high-performance liquid chromatography to objectively measure spice levels in the world's hottest peppers. Without the Scoville scale, you may have trouble conceiving just how hot some of ...

A Brooklyn Bowl gig brought out Jimmy Fallon, Robert Randolph, The Black Crowes' Chris Robinson and The Roots' Black Thought.