“Pepper X” is officially the hottest pepper in the world, weighing in with 2.693 million Scoville heat units. The creator reveals his process and experience tasting the pepper ...

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.

There's a new record-breaker for the title of "hottest pepper in the world." The new spicy pepper may leave you in tears. Here's just how hot it is.

Ed Currie holds up one of his Pepper X peppers Oct. 10 in Fort Mill, S.C. The pepper is now the hottest pepper variety in the world, according to Guinness World Records.

Ed Currie describes eating peppers "all day long", and his record-breaking feat.

Pepper X’s record is an average of 2.69 million units. By comparison, pepper spray commonly holstered by police is around 1.6 million units.

Ed Currie of South Carolina wants people to eat peppers and thinks they can benefit from the rush that comes after the burn.

“I was feeling the heat for three-and-a-half hours. Then the cramps came,” said Currie, one of only five people so far to eat a entire Pepper X. “Those cramps are horrible.

ASSOCIATED PRESS A Pepper X pepper is shown, Oct. 10, in Fort Mill, S.C. The pepper variety is now the hottest pepper in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Record.

‘Pepper X' named the world's spiciest pepper by Guinness World Records Pepper X’s record is an average of 2.69 million units. By comparison, pepper spray commonly holstered by police is around ...

Pepper X was publicly named the hottest pepper in the world on Oct. 9 by the Guinness Book of World Records, beating out the Reaper in Currie’s decade-long hunt to perfect a pepper that he says ...