In Texas, we find spice so nice we had to proclaim it twice. The Lone Star State is home to not one but two officially sanctioned chiles. In 1995, the Texas Legislature declared the ubiquitous ...

Scoville is a term that's usually thrown around when people are talking about the peppers that really pack heat. No one cares about the Scoville of bell peppers, but when we're talking about the ...

Hot peppers’ spicy heat is measured in Scoville heat units, named for Wilbur Scoville. The level of heat was originally determined by a panel of individual tasters. (Tetiana Kolubai/Dreamstime) Don’t ...

With the recent crowning of Pepper X as the new Guinness World Record holder for hottest chili pepper, here's a look into just how the spiciness of a pepper is calculated — and some examples of very ...

FORT MILL, S.C. (WISH) – Pepper X is officially the world’s hottest chili pepper, with an average sizzling rating of 2,693,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). Pepper X dethroned the previous record holder, ...

Pepper X has scorched its way into the record books as the world's new hottest pepper, Guinness World Records said Monday. Ed Currie, the pepper expert who crossbred and grew Pepper X, previously ...

Ed Currie, the South Carolina hot pepper expert who crossbred and grew the Carolina Reaper, has broken his own world record with a pepper that’s three times hotter.Pepper X was publicly named the ...