dethroning the Carolina Reaper chili pepper after 10 years. For comparison, a habanero pepper typically hits 100,000 Scoville ...

There’s a wide world of chile peppers out there. But mild bell peppers, the scorching hot Carolina reaper and everything in between are all the same genus, Capsicum. “So there’s obviously a ton of ...

Here are some common characteristics: Heat Level: Chili peppers vary widely in heat, from mild to extremely hot. The Scoville ...

Ranked as the Guinness World Record’s hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper peaked at about 2.2 million Scoville Heat Units, the scale used to rank how spicy peppers are.

When a new strain of Pepper X — whose 2.69 million Scoville heat units is more than 500 times a jalapeno pepper — lands on the tongue, a more intense bodily reaction takes over. It starts with ...

But the Scoville Scale is still the official measurement, used by foodies and the New Mexico State University Chili Pepper Institute alike.

I went up the ranks of the Scoville scale, dosing myself with Thai bird chiles, Scotch bonnets, habaneros, Trinidad Moruga scorpions and bhut jolokias, also known as ghost peppers, whose intensity ...

Max Scoville is a senior writer, host and producer for IGN covering video games, movies, toys and collectibles. He has 15 years of experience in pop-culture media, previously writing for and/or ...

dethroning the Carolina Reaper chili pepper after 10 years. For comparison, a habanero pepper typically hits 100,000 Scoville heat units, but Pepper X registers at 2.69 million units. Breeder and ...