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A chili pepper known as Pepper X has officially dethroned the Carolina Reaper as the hottest pepper ever created, beating it by almost 1 million SHU. Scoville heat units (SHU) are a scale used to measure how spicy a pepper is, created by Wilbur Scoville in 1912 to measure the spiciness of chillies and peppers. The ratings on the scale are mild (100-2,500), medium (2,500-30,000), hot (30,000-100,000), very hot (100,000-1,000,000), and exceptionally hot (more than 1,000,000). Some popular peppers come in at these numbers on the scale: Bell Pepper (0), Jalapeño Pepper (2,500-10,000), Tabasco Pepper (25,000-50,000), Cayenne Pepper (25,000-50,000), Habanero Chili (100,000-350,000), Ghost Pepper (750,000-1,500,000), and the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion (750,000-1,500,000). In 2013, Ed Currie created what was to become the world's hottest pepper at 1.64 million SHU, the Carolina Reaper- and he has done it again. After combining the Carolina Reaper with an extremely hot pepper he received from a friend in Michigan, Ed Currie created Pepper X, which has now taken the Guinness World Record from the Carolina Reaper for hottest pepper- measuring at 2.69 million SHU. Ed Currie is now working to beat his new record at his company (Puckerbutt Pepper Co.) headquarters in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
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