Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He's looking to beat his own world record. Food & Wine / Puckerbutt Pepper Co. The man who developed the “hottest pepper in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ed Currie, the chili pepper guru known as Smokin' Ed, has topped his own record for developing the world's hottest pepper. This ...

It must be a strange experience to be Ed Currie, a man with such passion–and superhuman pain tolerance–that he’s managed to carve out a niche entirely his own, even among a larger community of ...

The Guinness World Records title of "hottest chili pepper" has been awarded to "Pepper X," which clocks in 2,693,000 Scoville heat units (SHU), the publication announced in a press release on Oct. 16.

There’s a new no. 1 hottie in town. A sweltering South Carolina chili named Pepper X has captured the Guinness World Record for the world’s hottest pepper, beating out former title holder the Carolina ...

PuckerButt Pepper Company founder Ed Currie answers the internet's sizzling questions about peppers. Why do only mammals taste capsaicin? What kind of peppers are used in military grade pepper spray?

FORT MILL, S.C. (AP) — Ed Currie, the South Carolina hot pepper expert who crossbred and grew the Carolina Reaper that's hotter than most pepper sprays police use to subdue unruly criminals, has ...

The Carolina Reaper has been officially dethroned as the world’s hottest chili pepper. PuckerButt Pepper Co. founder and pepper expert Ed Currie has spent the past 10 years working on Pepper X, a ...

Ed Currie, the chili pepper guru known as Smokin' Ed, has topped his own record for developing the world's hottest pepper. This past week, Currie introduced the world to Pepper X, his latest ...