Dallas Observer

I Ate the World’s Hottest Pepper This Weekend

So I ate the world’s hottest chili this weekend. The Trinidad Scorpion pepper was measured at 1.4 million Scoville Heat Units last year, usurping the Bhut Jolokia as the king of capsaicin. It’s slowly ...
Yahoo

A Fort Mill store with the world’s hottest pepper is on the move. Here’s where to find it

PuckerButt Pepper Company, purveyor of the home-grown, world’s hottest peppers grown, is moving on from its Main Street store in Fort Mill. A new Kingsley location in northern Fort Mill opens Friday.
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'Pepper X' Creator Ed Currie Tries to Make The World's Hottest Hot Sauce

Professional hot sauce maker Smokin’ Ed Currie, the founder and president of PuckerButt Pepper Company, returns to Epicurious to turn the dreaded 'Pepper X' into some of the world's hottest hot sauce.
Cleveland Scene

Meet Cleveland’s Hot Ones: The Local Hot Sauces You Should Be Stocking to Kick Up the Flavor

In August of this year, chili pepper breeder Ed Currie secured the Guinness World Record for his latest creation, Pepper X, a cultivar so hot that it makes the dreaded Carolina Reaper seem wimpy by ...
The Washington Post

He held the world record for hottest pepper. Then his Pepper X dethroned it.

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 was ...