Meet Smokin’ Ed Currie: The South Carolina Pepper Farmer who Created the 2 Hottest Peppers on Earth. He's looking to beat his own world record.

Smokin’ Ed’s Pepper X dwarfed the international standard. The second reason that Pepper X stunned the aficionadi last October is that the dethroned Carolina Reaper was also an Ed Currie cultivar.

Currie created the Carolina Reaper, which first broke the Guinness World Record for hottest pepper in 2013 and held that title until 2023, when another of Ed's creations, Pepper X, took the new title.

Fort Mill, South Carolina, resident Ed Currie has created the world's two hottest peppers according to Guinness World Records: the Carolina Reaper and Pepper X.

FORT MILL, S.C. — Ed Currie, the South Carolina hot pepper expert who crossbred and grew the Carolina Reaper that’s hotter than most pepper sprays police use to subdue unruly criminals, has ...

He's looking to beat his own world record. Food & Wine / Puckerbutt Pepper Co. The man who developed the “hottest pepper in the (known) world” is the legendary farmer and pepper-sauce ...