Carolina Reaper facts
While investigating facts about Carolina Reaper Pepper and Carolina Reaper Scoville, I found out little known, but curios details like:
There is actually a pepper hotter than the Ghost Chili. The new record holder is called the Carolina Reaper, and rates an average of 1,569,300 Scoville units.
how carolina reaper was made?
Ed Currie, Creator of the Carolina Reaper (the world's hottest pepper), Donates Half of His Pepper Harvest to Cancer Research as Capsicum Has Proven to Kill Cancer Cells
What happens when you eat a carolina reaper?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what happens if you eat a carolina reaper. Here are 31 of the best facts about Carolina Reaper Chip and Carolina Reaper Seeds I managed to collect.
what to do with carolina reapers?
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The man who created the carolina reaper pepper was actually trying to cure cancer.
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The creator of the Carolina Reaper (the hottest pepper in the world) claims to have unreleased peppers that are more than twice as hot.
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The current hottest pepper in the world is called Pepper X. It contains 3.18 million Scoville units. The second hottest, Dragon's Breath, is 2.4 million Scovilles. The third hottest, the Carolina Reaper, ranges 1.4 to 2.2 million Scovilles.
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The Scoville scale was created by Wilbur Scoville. It measures the heat of a chile. The hottest chile known to exist for sale is the Carolina Reaper which measures 2.2 million on the Scoville Scale.
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Pepper X, created by Ed Currie who'd created the Carolina Reaper (1.4 - 2.2 million Scoville Heat Units), at 3.18 million Scoville Heat Units, is currently the hottest chili pepper in the world. That's, however, yet to be confirmed by the Guinness World Records.
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The English Dragon's Breath pepper, at 2.48 million on the Schoville scale is hotter, than the Carolina Reaper, and US Military Grade pepper spray.
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While the Carolina Reaper is the world's hottest chilli, there is a sauce made of capsaicin crystals that is over 16 times hotter... or 8000 times hotter than tabasco.
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Resiniferatoxin, a ultra-potent analogue of Capsaicin has a Scoville Scale rating of 16,000,000,000, which is 8000 times more potent than the Carolina Reaper Chilli!! (The World's Spiciest Chilli) In fact only 10g of it can be lethal!
Why eat a carolina reaper?
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The creator of the Carolina Reaper, Ed Currie, has a stash of peppers that are up to twice as hot as the Reaper but has withheld submitting them to Guinness. He also created the Reaper by crossing a Ghost Pepper with a Habanero.
The Chocolate Bhutlah. A purpose bred strain of chili pepper challenging the Carolina Reaper for worlds hottest pepper. - source
A guy vaped carolina reapers in the name of science
The Carolina Reaper, The worlds hottest pepper, made by the PuckerButt Pepper Company. - source
What happens when you eat a carolina reaper?
Wayne Algenio of Jamaica broke a world record in 2013 by eating 22 Carolina Reapers in 60 seconds at the NYC Hot Sauce Expo in Brooklyn
How to grow carolina reaper?
There is a pepper more "hot" than the Carolina Reaper, called HP56, or the "Death Strain"!
The world's hottest chili is Smokin Ed's 'Carolina Reaper', grown by The PuckerButt Pepper Company, which rates at an average of 1,569,300 Scoville Heat Units.
The creator of the Carolina Reaper, Ed Currie, currently has a stash of peppers that are up to or more than twice as hot as the Carolina Reaper but has not submitted them to Guinness. He also created the Carolina Reaper by crossing a Ghost Pepper with a Habanero.
There are peppers that are twice as hot (or more) than the Carolina Reaper
