The Race Is Hotting Up,

to claim the title,

'The Wolds Hottest Pepper' we have featured hot peppers before, like this one here, that recorded 2.48 million Scovilles, but now an even hotter one is out there, the Pepper X, which is the brainchild of Smokin’ Ed Currie, “founder, president, mad scientist & chef of Pucker Butt Pepper Company”, and the same man who created the now world famous Carolina Reaper, apparently, he started working on this scorching hot chilli some 10 years ago, crossing various pepper variety and constantly upping the Scoville rating, to the point where it now scores a mouth burning 3.18 million Scoville units, to put that into perspective, Jalapenos are rated at between 10,000 – 20,000 units, so hot in fact that consuming it raw is potentially deadly, the extremely high capsaicin content, the active component that produces a sensation of burning in any tissue with which it comes into contact, can send your immune system into overdrive and trick your body into thinking that it is experiencing real burning, for this reason, Pepper X is currently only available as an ingredient of the hottest sauce ever created, The Last Dab, 

the sauce consists of Pepper X mash, distilled vinegar, ginger root, turmeric, coriander, cumin and dry mustard, making it very flavorful while only compromising on hotness, by itself, Pepper X comes in at 3.18 Scoville units, but The Last Dab sauce is still hotter than the Carolina Reaper, at 2.4 million units, Smokin’ Ed has already submitted documentation to the Guinness Book of Records to have Pepper X officially named as the hottest pepper in the world, and he estimates that the title will be awarded sometime in November, the Last Dab sauce was only recently launched, but it is already a flaming success, the first 1,000 bottle batch was sold out in just two minutes of becoming available online, and it’s now only available for pre-order, and no I am not on commission and no I do not want any of it!