Ed Currie has spent the past 10 years working on a pepper three times hotter than the world's hottest chili pepper, the Carolina Reaper.

Pepper X has been in the works since Currie last set the hottest pepper record in 2013 with the Carolina Reaper, a bright red knobby fruit with what aficionados call a scorpion tail.

There's a new king of spicy peppers: Pepper X, grown by the same man who developed the Carolina Reaper, was tested and found to have an average heat of 2.693 million Scovilles.

Pepper X has been in the works since Currie last set the hottest pepper record in 2013 with the Carolina Reaper, a bright red knobby fruit with what aficionados call a scorpion tail.

Pepper X is now the hottest pepper in the world, surpassing the previous record-holder Carolina Reaper, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

Mike Jack ate 50 of the hottest chile peppers on the planet in six minutes and 49 seconds, setting a record that Guinness World Records created just for him.

The new world's hottest pepper is grown by Ed Currie, founder of Puckerbutt Pepper Company, who also created the Carolina Reaper.

Ed Currie and his PuckerButt Pepper Company created the Carolina Reaper, which bagged the Guinness World Records title for spiciest chile pepper on the planet a decade ago. But at the time, Currie ...

Ed Currie, a South Carolina hot pepper expert who crossbred and grew the Carolina Reaper, is the man responsible or Pepper X, which was publicly named the hottest pepper in the world by the ...

Perhaps the Joey Chestnut of hot peppers, Greg Foster can devour super-hot chili peppers at Guinness World Record-setting speed.

Ed Currie, the South Carolina hot pepper expert who grew the Carolina Reaper, has created Pepper X - which is three times hotter.