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. The Carolina Reaper has a sweet and fruity flavor, right before the heat kicks in. In either case, these are heat levels that most people shouldn’t seek out. The Carolina Reaper averages 1.6 million SHU but tops out at 2.2 million SHU. The average scorpion pepper measures about 1.2 million Scoville heat units (SHU) with the hotter examples measuring up to about 2 million SHU. TASTE: Typically superhots have chemical undertones, as if you can actually taste the capsaicin. The Carolina Reaper took the top spot where it continues today despite potential challengers in the forms of unstable hybrids like Pepper X and Dragon’s Breath. You can clearly see the variance in shapes. Boasting over 1500000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). The below photos are all from the same plant. When it comes to heat, it is off the chart The Carolina Reaper is currently the hottest pepper around. I gentleman was kind enough to send me photos of his Reaper crop.
Check out the photos below of various Carolina Reapers. 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. 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. 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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