Cleveland.com

Pepper X dethrones Carolina Reaper as world’s hottest pepper, Guinness says

Move on over, Carolina Reaper. There’s a new world’s hottest pepper -- Pepper X. A new pepper named Pepper X is now the world’s hottest chili pepper, according to Guinness World Records, surpassing ...
USA Today

Move aside, Carolina Reaper. Pepper X is now officially the world's hottest chili pepper

The Carolina Reaper has been officially dethroned as the world’s hottest chili pepper. PuckerButt Pepper Co. founder and pepper expert Ed Currie has spent the past 10 years working on Pepper X, a ...
NBC DFW

‘Pepper X' named the world's spiciest pepper by Guinness World Records

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 broken his own world record ...
Post and Courier

We met the South Carolina man behind the world's hottest peppers – and then we tried one

FORT MILL — A peppery haze is omnipresent in the back of a rural warehouse, causing one's eyes to water and nose to tingle. Ed Currie, creator of the Carolina Reaper and Pepper X, said he doesn’t even ...