Some extreme chili eaters seriously love them and they go to the pinnacle of challenges in gorging on either of these chilies. Use them with extreme caution they are not meant for the timid. Both are used for making military-grade pepper spray.īoth these chilies are insanely hot but Carolina Pepper has much higher levels of heat and deeper flavor. Dried and powdered peppers or pepper flakes are often used in seasoning blends, chutneys, pickling spices, rubs, and hot recipes. Uses: They are excellent for making hot sauces and salsas for they are wickedly hot and deliciously fruity and sweet. Both are slow-burn chilies that take a couple of minutes for the heat to begin to hit hard on your taste buds. Overall, Carolina reaper is the sweetest among all the mega-hot peppers of the bunch. Carolina Reaper is smaller in size with about 1.5 to 2 inches in total length and has a scorpion-like tail and is usually red when ripe.įlavor: Both the peppers offer a fruity, sweet chili flavor with wicked heat. In short, they are unbearably hot for most people unless the pepper extract has been diluted with other ingredients.Īppearance: A ripe ghost pepper measure 2.5 to 3.3 inches long and are usually read, though there are orange, yellow, purple, white, or chocolate color varieties. Heat: Carolina Reaper is superior in the heat with an average heat level of 1,569,300 SHU against Ghost pepper’s 948,214 on average SHU. They are two distinctive types of chilies despite the few similarities they share. Ghost pepper enjoys wider popularity for it has been in the game for a long and its name itself creates a lot of curiosity. Origin: India: North-East (especially in Manipur) Carolina Reaper Vs Ghost Pepperĭefinitely, their popularity and extreme heat levels have given them many fans all across the world. Hybrid: Capsicum chinense × Capsicum frutescens Scoville scale: 948,214 on average SHU and 1,041,427 maximum SHU Currently, the official record holder for the hottest pepper is the Carolina Reaper but two new entrants, Dragon’s Breath Pepper and Pepper X, are set to beat its record. It was eventually toppled several times over and finally by the reaper. It was awarded the World’s Hottest Pepper by the Guinness World Records in 2007 and held the record till 2010. It’s a hybrid of Capsicum Chinense and Capsicum frutescens (wild chili). The ghost pepper, also known as bhut jolokia, is a hybrid chili pepper grown in Northeast India. In fact, it has a lot more flavor and hot punch than any other mega-hot pepper. He says Pepper X clocks in at 3.18 million Scoville units, which would be positively excruciating to try to eat.This pepper is not only hot but also has a sweet and fruity flavor a challenge to the taste buds but at the same time enhances the flavors of a dish. Pepper X was created by Ed Currie, who created the recently dethroned Carolina Reaper. Now, according to First We Feast, there’ a new world’s hottest pepper in town, and it’s called Pepper X.
Before the Dragon’s Breath took the title, these were the 11 hottest chili peppers in the world.
The Dragon’s Breath is reportedly even hotter than that, because that one can get up to 2.4 million Scovilles. The Carolina Reaper took the Guinness World Record for the spiciest pepper in the world with 1.4 to 2.2 million Scovilles. A Habanero pepper maxes out at 350,000 Scoville units. A Jalapeño pepper clocks in at 10,000 to 20,000 Scoville units, but that’s actually pretty mild when compared with the world’s spiciest peppers. The heat of chili peppers is measured on the Scoville scale. The Dragon’s Breath did not have long to enjoy its victory, though, because it was just supplanted by an even hotter pepper, called Pepper X. The Carolina Reaper held the record for being the spiciest pepper on Earth from 2013 to May 2017, when it was unseated by the astonishingly spicy Dragon’s Breath pepper. Humanity will never stop searching for a hotter pepper.
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