With that being said, this still is an extremely hot pepper. There’s a lot more flavor to the Carolina Reaper then you’ll find in most extremely hot peppers. The Puckerbutt Pepper Company wants their peppers to not only challenge the taste buds but to also enhance the flavor of food. A well renowned breeder from North Carolina, Ed curry created this hot chili pepper. The Carolina Reaper has a sweet and fruity flavor, right before the heat kicks in. This Carolina reaper belongs to the capsicum Chinense family. TASTE: Typically superhots have chemical undertones, as if you can actually taste the capsaicin. You can clearly see the variance in shapes. A big trend today is to have challenges where people eat the reaper consequently. That’s a hot Pepper To put that in perspective, that’s about 300 times hotter than even the most intense jalapeo. The below photos are all from the same plant. The Carolina Reaper is the hottest pepper known to man ranking in at 1,569,300 Scoville Heat Units. I gentleman was kind enough to send me photos of his Reaper crop. The trick is keeping them at 80 to 90 degrees, which can be challenging even with the greenhouse, Moore says. Germination is slow and can be difficult with the super hot peppers. Check out the photos below of various Carolina Reapers. Since hot peppers can take four to six weeks to germinate, North Carolina growers typically plant them in greenhouses in January or February. But some Reapers do look more like Ghost Peppers. Most images you will see of the Carolina Reaper have the distinctive lobes and the stinger tail. SHAPE: So the look of these fruits kinda tends to be all over the place. Recently, there has been some debate over whether the Carolina Reaper is genetically distinct from the Trinidad 7-Pot Primo strain, another hybrid species which is very similar in heat level and appearance. He found that indigenous populations from around the world who eat hot peppers with meals have extremely small instances of these diseases, prompting his focus on peppers as a delicious and healthy food staple. And until now (as of May 2022) the Carolina reaper holds this world title. And holds the title as the ‘world’s hottest chili pepper’ from the Guinness book of records in the year 2017.
It is, to date, the world’s hottest hybrid pepper.Įd Currie began growing peppers because of his interest in the health benefits of hot peppers, born from his family’s history of early death from heart disease and cancer. This Carolina reaper belongs to the capsicum Chinense family. The original cross was between two former world record holders, the ghost pepper and a Red Savina Habanero. Originally named the “HP22BNH7”, bred by cultivator Ed Currie, who runs PuckerButt Pepper Company in Fort Mill, South Carolina. As of August, 2013, Guinness World Records stated that Smokin’ Ed’s Carolina Reaper® is officially the world’s hottest chile pepper.
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