What I'm looking to do is raise certain capsinoid levels. It wasn't about getting the hottest pepper in the world. ![]() What is it about you that wants to unleash these things on the world as well as taste them yourself? What is it about Ed Currie? And there's many peppers that are in between them and more yet to come.Įd Currie holds up his certification that his new Pepper X variety of peppers is the hottest in the world. Well, when you make it into a hot sauce or a salsa and you don't use that much of it, it's actually a really tasty pepper.… You use small quantities and it goes a very long way.Īnd you also bred the previous world record as well. What's the point of creating a piece of food that is so vile, to some people, that they can't keep it in their gut? Ed Currie, pepper expertĮd, we're talking about food. I like to do things that other people just think are stupid. Every time he tried to eat or drink something, he was getting sick again. And he told me that was the worst 24 hours of his life. And within, you know, five minutes of that show being off, he was throwing up in a trash can. Chili Klaus, who also ate one with me on, he is like the king of peppers in the EU. Oh yeah, the heat was brutal immediately. If you turn into an alcoholic, a case of beer might do the same thing.īut you suffered when you ate the Pepper X, so. ![]() You know, it's kind of like drinking beer. When you're young and you have a beer, one or two beers really set you off. Well, all of us have a different tolerance towards heat. What's the difference between me and you when it comes to eating one of those? It seems like you must have to have some sort of special qualification to be able to. "It's a full-body experience when you eat that much capsaicin at one time," referring to the component in peppers that causes the irritation when coming in contact with human tissue.Ĭurrie spoke to Bambury about what would happen if a hot pepper newbie tried Pepper X and why he keeps pushing up the heat scale. ![]() But he says he had it under control after about 20 minutes. WATCH | Ed Currie eating a Pepper X on Hot OnesĬurrie admits that the heat was "brutal" when he first tried the pepper, lingering for about three hours. It was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records earlier this month. Currie also recently ate a whole Pepper X on the popular YouTube series Hot Ones. ![]() The process involves cross-breeding between eight and 12 generations of plants. It took Currie nearly a decade to breed the pepper in a stable manner. I've been eating peppers for so many decades that even though I can feel the heat in, say, like a jalapeno, it really doesn't do anything for me," Currie, the founder of PuckerButt Pepper Company, told Day 6 host Brent Bambury. million SHU, according to The Associated Press. That's higher on the scale than bear spray, which comes in at 2.2. It's three times as hot as the Reaper according to the Scoville heat scale, which scores hot peppers on a "heatmeter" based on their pungency.įor an idea of just how hot the pepper is: your run-of-the-mill jalapeno pepper tallies between 2,000 to 50,000 SHU (Scoville Heat Units). The new Pepper X comes in at 2.69 million units. South Carolina pepper expert Ed Currie already held the record for breeding the world's hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper. But he apparently did not fear the reaper, and upped the ante with his new record-breaker, Pepper X. Day 6 8:44 Ed Currie just broke a world record for breeding the world's hottest chili pepper - for the second time
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