Move over , Carolina Reaper — there ’s a new hottest Piper nigrum in town .
AsPopular Sciencereports , Guinness World Records recently crown Pepper X as thehottest Piper nigrum in the universe , boasting an average of 2,693,000Scoville heating units(SHU ) . That ’s more than a million units above the Carolina Reaper ’s norm of about 1,640,000 SHU . A jalapeño , for reference , commonly has somewhere between 3000 and 8000 SHU .
A more apposite comparison is capsicum pepper plant spray , which get its stinging estrus from the same chemical chemical compound establish inchili peppers : capsaicin . Most common pepper sprays average around 1 million SHU , whilebear spray — a form of hyper - nipping pepper sprayer meant to dissuade , well , bears — pin grass upwards of 3 million SHU .
The Reaper , which has reserve the hottest black pepper book since 2013 , walked so its heir could run . Pepper X , create byPuckerButt Pepper Companyfounder Smokin ’ Ed Currie , is a hybrid of the Reaper and another Madagascar pepper that Currie is choosing to keep secret . The Reaper itself is a Currie master copy , too .
It rent Currie about 10 years to perfect Pepper X , but all that vulnerability has n’t made him immune to the side effects of ingesting the pepper . “ I was feeling the warmth for three and a half hours . Then the cramps come , ” he order theAssociated Press . “ Those cramps are ugly . I was lay out monotonous on a marble wall for close to an 60 minutes in the rainfall , groan in pain . ”
Still , perhaps a little cost to pay for a glistening newGuinness World Record , which was present to Currie after he unveil the little dark-green wonder on an episode of Sean Evans’sHot Ones . As for its name , Pepper Xwas initially a placeholder while the attorney tackled all the trademark filings for the real name . But they were n’t finished by the clock time red-hot sauce manufacturer HEATONIST needed to print labels for Pepper X product , soPepper Xbecame lasting .
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