Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Company in South Carolina said his team stabilized Pepper X about a decade ago, but only released it now because no one had been able to beat his previous record.
Spice, Spice, Baby! Why Some Of Us Enjoy The Pain Of Spicy Foods. Developed in 1912, the scale determines the heat of a pepper by measuring the concentration of its heat-wielding chemical compounds called capsaicinoids.
Pepper X measures an average of 2.693 million Scoville Heat Units. A jalapeño, by comparison, measures just 2,000 to 8,000 SHUs, while a serrano can land between 10,000 and 23,000 SHUs. The previous record holder, the Carolina Reaper, which was also developed by Currie, averaged 1.64 million SHUs. "But that scale's logarithmic, so it's more like three times hotter than a Reaper," Currie said on the show.
An employee in a Carolina Reaper shirt looks over one of Ed Currie's greenhouses on Oct. 10, 2023, in Fort Mill, S.C.Currie described the feeling of eating a whole Pepper X:"There's an intense burn that happens immediately. Then your head kind of feels like, 'Oh no! What's going on?' And then your body just starts reacting. You get it in your arms, you get it in your chest," he said.
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