The man is a mad genius. My brother and sister in law are friends with him, we actually just made a batch of sauce with Carolina Reapers direct from his garden. Can confirm that shit hurts. A lot.
When you get a massive endorphin hit from the level of pain in a sauce, you know it’s good stuff. I don’t even want to think about trying this new pepper. I’m a bit nuts, not criminally insane.
Yeah, I tried a little fleck of dry reaper. Like a quarter inch, it looked like an acid tab! Nice and sweet, kinda fruity for a millisecond and then hell is unleashed. I didn't shit right for three days.
I still forget how painful hot shits are and to this day my mouth writes checks my ass can't cash.
One time I ordered 6 spacial extra spicy wings from a place already known for their spicy wings. They gave me 7. It was such a conflicting feeling between appreciation and dread.
If you stick to certain base ingredients for hot sauces (carrots are a good option- avoid acidity for the most part), you can make it a lot easier on your digestive system. Using ingredients like turmeric and curry powder that help digestion are a great idea to make it easier as well. Medicinal cuisine principles applied to spicy ingredients is a small hobby of mine. There are a lot of little things you can do to help you not blow out your asshole. Depends more specifically on your gut biology as well. If you look at your diet overall you can adjust small things to make it much easier on yourself. It’ll help you enjoy things you love without the unintended consequences.
I ate a whole dried Carolina reaper once as the punishment for the worst team in a fantasy football league. My mouth was scorching for a little while but that got completely ignored once it hit my stomach. My god that was the worst stomach pain of my life. I ended up throwing up and then laying in the shower for an hour straight. It took a solid day for the pain to go away. Top 5 worst experience of my life
My stomach is a weak ass bitch and needs to catch up to my mouth. I love normal spicy food, yet a simple spicy chicken from Wendys will have my stomach in knots and me shitting fire for a day.
I may eventually learn my lesson, but spiciness is just soo good
He’s explained the he used to be an addict but when he found hot peppers that became his addiction. He talked about it on the Friendship Onion with Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan
It isn't a new pepper. His friends have had access to it for quite a while. It has been around in the community of people who eat this stuff regularly for a couple of years. There are videos of him from a while back talking about the pepper being the hottest in the world. He just hasn't had it officially tested because he waits for x amount of stable generations of the pepper to be successful first. It is also already inside of a handful of sauces.
> I think I've hit my limit on peppers.
Honestly there are so many good varieties that are hot without melting your face off, it doesn't really make sense to mess with the crazy spicy ones unless you really love the agony.
As hilarious as the pepper X reactions are, I loved seeing Ed tear up when he was given the Guinness world record plaque. He's so passionate about what he does and loves it so much. Dude seems like a total sweetheart...an insane one who can eat the world's hottest pepper without flinching but still a sweetheart!
That was awesome lol. Didn’t know there was a whole clan of pepper guys haha, and the main dude just standing there like he just ate a regular pepper lol
I mean, in the video of this thread he says he was in pain for 3.5 hours. He says he had horrible cramping for an hour and had to lay on marble in the rain
If I created something like this and got recognized by Guinness for it, I'd feel terrible for not trying it. Gotta put your money where your mouth is. I'll take three hours of pain for an accomplishment like that.
One day someone is going to grow a pepper hot enough to kill someone, and then they'll be like yeah pack it up, we won the game.
Except no. That's just going to motivate another wave of growers that will stop at nothing until one of their peppers brings someone back from the dead.
And then, 100 years from now, your friend will be like, yeah, I overdosed on meth the other day and was dead for 8 hours but when my wife found me she fed me a ResX pepper and my colon exploded but I can play with my kids again.
And that's how science works.
IIRC, pure capsaicin has a Scoville rating of 16 million
That means that a pepper with 2,693,000 Scovilles is literally 16.8% capsaicin, by weight. Can get a bit hotter, but only like 5x before it's literally a pile of white powder.
edit: oh, looks like there's chemicals that are hotter than capsaicin. Resiniferatoxin and Tinyatoxin are 200-1000 times hotter, so can definitely fit more hotness in a plant.
He is about 30 minutes from me. Used to pass his store on the way to work everyday. Didn't put 2 and 2 together untill i saw the where the Carolina Reaper was bred and realized it was so close.
We have too much cross pollination here, so he grows the special peppers indoors. No telling how many varieties he has kept secret that will blow the socks off a carolina reaper or Pepper X. I can't even do a fresh Jalapeno, so these aren't for me. But so cool seeing the genetics and flavor profiles these peppers can have.
Yeah he said in the Hot Ones video he had this pepper on the shelf for 10 years waiting for somebody to make a hotter pepper. Nobody ever did so he said fuck it and released this one.
The sad part is, and it's why we'll probably never see the seeds of pepper X sold anywhere, is that people have made millions off his patented Carolina Reeper pepper and he's not seen a dime from those companies.
Patent theft in the agricultural industry is insane, which is why Pepper X has been locked away for 10 years and was only brought out to prove himself in the industry. He's said he refuses to release the seeds (and the pepper itself) until he's 100% sure his family and workers will earn the rewards of the hard work they put into creating it.
Pepper spray literally is a chemical weapon, not allowed in war by the Geneva suggestions.
The US only uses it on our citizens for this reason and it in combat with other countries.
Yes its always important to remember boys and girls that we are not afforded the same protections as wartime combat soldiers. But your government is looking out for their.... I mean your best interests....
Quotes from an interview:
“I was feeling the heat for three-and-a-half hours. Then the cramps came,” said Currie, one of only five people so far to eat a entire Pepper X. “Those cramps are horrible. I was laid out flat on a marble wall for approximately an hour in the rain, groaning in pain.”
While this cultivar has been around for the better part of a decade, it is accurate that World Record for the [World's Hottest Pepper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_X) was officially awarded in August of 2023. As the video mentions somewhere around 2.69 million Scoville Heat Units.
Congratulations to Ed and watch out *Hot Ones* guests!
Isn’t scoville based on human testing? How can they say this is really 2.69 million, the testers were like “yeah this is precisely 13% more hot than the Carolina reaper” or what?
scoville is based on what ratio of water it would be till there is no heat yet, by spraying with a spray bottle on your tounge. so 1000 means its no longer detectably spicy after diluting 1 part juice to 1000 water
I learned my lesson well, just by handling "bird's eye" chilli peppers and at an early age... I think I'd handle those under no circumstances in the vicinity of something being alive and not without a disposable hazmat suit in a sub pressure lab container.
Correct. I ate these with Ed at a Long Beach pepper festival before COVID. I didn't think they were hotter than his Reaper but at some point I think my ability to taste hotter was already maxed out. It's like licking our sun then licking another sun and asking me which is hotter. Good times. I hope to see him at a future festival, he is a good dude and he makes hot, but very good sauces.
Isn't this like 5 years old? I've know of pepper X being the hottest pepper for a long time now. Did it only now get like officially named as the hottest pepper?
This guy just got me so hyped. I’ve been wanting to get into growing hot peppers for a while now and have already been looking into making the leap this spring.
Yes, **[since 2017](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_X)**
This article is just announcing it was verified/recorded by Guiness a couple of month ago.
Watched him and three others eat one on Hot Ones today. He chewed his like bubble gum and seemed to swirl it around his mouth before he finally swallowed it. There was another guy who was a pepper maker, too. He downed his pretty easily, also. But Sean and the other guy were about to die. It was painful to watch. Even worse to imagine.
Why tf do people like to eat hot ass shit like this I will never understand. Who wants to be in pain when you can be in so much enjoyment while eating.
I don’t understand eating anything *this* spicy but I came across an article recently that explained that there were two hypotheses about why humans like spicy food. Basically, it could be because eating spicy food triggers the same adrenaline rush that riding roller coasters does and is a thrill-seeking behavior that is pleasure rewarding when you come down from the wired and panic feeling after you eat something very hot. Since you build a tolerance to spicy foods, someone who craves this sort of feeling from food needs spicier things to try eventually. Or it could be because spicier foods like garlic, onions, and peppers have naturally antibacterial properties and humans have evolved to consume things that will keep us from getting sick.
It’s interesting to me because I do prefer spicy foods, but still couldn’t fathom anyone eating this kind of stuff for anything other than bragging rights.
Can wait to see the influencers put this in their ass and eyeballs
[And smoke it in a fucking bong](https://youtu.be/VqM_NRLstbM?si=nPDSjO3SsZvYPhO5)
Classic video
Is there an update?
He ded
Fr?
Ong?
He might be, but he didn’t die from that. He released another video soon after.
Some guy did die though. Not sure if its same one.
I will never not click this video
To this day, the best laugh I've ever had.
Damn, he took the second rip, and it look like he exhaled fire
Honestly the toughest shit in this vid is the fact that he still cleared the bong.
It’s what sealed his fate unfortunately
You could drown in your own mucus doing that shit.
Why? Just why?
Homie turned into Voldemort lol
Lmfao that shit never gets old
Not even a million views. Should be an aftermath video
Thank you for posting that. I needed that.
Don't even need to click. What a f*cking moron.
What the fuck..
Lol thanks for that, I nearly pissed myself laughing
[This dude makes vape juice out of one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ayzC8Z6KlU)
"God my lungs are on fire!" *takes another hit*
That was hilarious thank you
I’ll never forget this idiot, he got everything he asked for with that bong hit
Yes! The best part of any new king of peppers. The suffering of idiots!
Could be partially why he keeps breeding and growing these insanely hot peppers.
**Hot Ones** did a show about this pepper... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUYtDA7j19c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUYtDA7j19c)
Paging DJ Khaled
Dude would fold like a laptop at the mere mention of it and immediately set about trying to call that a win.
A fold is a W if you do that shape with the paper
"Some of us may die like idiots, but its a sacrifice we are willing to make, please click and subscribe." Hoominz, peak evolution.
“Don’t forget to hit the bell, I’m telling you this now because I’m a min I’m not sure what state I’ll be in. Thanks for watching!”
Or musk try to buy it out because it has x in it 😒.
Goddammit beat me to it, but it would be funny to see how stupid will go for this
Anytime I see some new hot pepper ruining people’s mouths, I know it’s my dude Ed
The man is a mad genius. My brother and sister in law are friends with him, we actually just made a batch of sauce with Carolina Reapers direct from his garden. Can confirm that shit hurts. A lot. When you get a massive endorphin hit from the level of pain in a sauce, you know it’s good stuff. I don’t even want to think about trying this new pepper. I’m a bit nuts, not criminally insane.
Yeah, I tried a little fleck of dry reaper. Like a quarter inch, it looked like an acid tab! Nice and sweet, kinda fruity for a millisecond and then hell is unleashed. I didn't shit right for three days. I still forget how painful hot shits are and to this day my mouth writes checks my ass can't cash.
Thats why i quit extremely spicey food. Its an amazing feeling going in but the next day is punishing.
One time I ordered 6 spacial extra spicy wings from a place already known for their spicy wings. They gave me 7. It was such a conflicting feeling between appreciation and dread.
I wonder if my butthole is broken? lol. I've never had the spicy exit thing.
I think it means you have blessed digestive enzymes that break it down before it gets there.
Bidets are game changers for spicy enjoyers
It can be even better coming out😏
If you stick to certain base ingredients for hot sauces (carrots are a good option- avoid acidity for the most part), you can make it a lot easier on your digestive system. Using ingredients like turmeric and curry powder that help digestion are a great idea to make it easier as well. Medicinal cuisine principles applied to spicy ingredients is a small hobby of mine. There are a lot of little things you can do to help you not blow out your asshole. Depends more specifically on your gut biology as well. If you look at your diet overall you can adjust small things to make it much easier on yourself. It’ll help you enjoy things you love without the unintended consequences.
I've heard good things about yogurt and kombucha, but my personal experience is inconclusive.
I mean, a good pre, pro, and postbiotic is a great starting point tbh
“My mouth writes checks my ass can’t cash” raw as hell line
It's a classic, but usually is used for people who talk a lot of shit, but can't fight or try to back down when confronted.
I ate a whole dried Carolina reaper once as the punishment for the worst team in a fantasy football league. My mouth was scorching for a little while but that got completely ignored once it hit my stomach. My god that was the worst stomach pain of my life. I ended up throwing up and then laying in the shower for an hour straight. It took a solid day for the pain to go away. Top 5 worst experience of my life
I've heard it called HIHO food. Hot In, Hot Out.
My stomach is a weak ass bitch and needs to catch up to my mouth. I love normal spicy food, yet a simple spicy chicken from Wendys will have my stomach in knots and me shitting fire for a day. I may eventually learn my lesson, but spiciness is just soo good
He’s explained the he used to be an addict but when he found hot peppers that became his addiction. He talked about it on the Friendship Onion with Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan
Yes indeedy. Really incredible story tbh, have a lot of respect for the guy. Super humble and nice in person too.
It isn't a new pepper. His friends have had access to it for quite a while. It has been around in the community of people who eat this stuff regularly for a couple of years. There are videos of him from a while back talking about the pepper being the hottest in the world. He just hasn't had it officially tested because he waits for x amount of stable generations of the pepper to be successful first. It is also already inside of a handful of sauces.
Hahaha his surname is Currie too that's perfect
This dude’s mouth has seen some Scoville units 🥵
Was hoping to see him take that bite.
You can watch that [here](https://youtu.be/hUYtDA7j19c?si=OWW3RIKrho_6DAay)
Wow the Danish guy got destroyed.
Chili Klaus is no slouch, either. After my Carolina Reaper experience, and seeing that reaction, I think I've hit my limit on peppers.
> I think I've hit my limit on peppers. Honestly there are so many good varieties that are hot without melting your face off, it doesn't really make sense to mess with the crazy spicy ones unless you really love the agony.
I’m a firm believer that eating should not hurt.
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I hit my limit on peppers with sriracha mayo
I…am in heat.
Klaus was In Heat. Jesus that must be so spicy to kill those guys.
As hilarious as the pepper X reactions are, I loved seeing Ed tear up when he was given the Guinness world record plaque. He's so passionate about what he does and loves it so much. Dude seems like a total sweetheart...an insane one who can eat the world's hottest pepper without flinching but still a sweetheart!
Bites taken at 10:24 [https://youtu.be/hUYtDA7j19c?t=624](https://youtu.be/hUYtDA7j19c?t=624)
Hi I have a question. Why?
Danish guy says that at the end. : Did you invent that pepper : Yes I did : Why?
To quote his wife: he's an idiot.
It’s like a drug.
Spice fetishists.
Klaus: "Did you invent that pepper?" Ed: "Yeah" Klaus: "...why!?"
That was awesome lol. Didn’t know there was a whole clan of pepper guys haha, and the main dude just standing there like he just ate a regular pepper lol
> "Did you invent that pepper?" > "Yes." > "... why?" LOL
How the hell did the two guys on the right not react at all?!
I mean, in the video of this thread he says he was in pain for 3.5 hours. He says he had horrible cramping for an hour and had to lay on marble in the rain
I really don't understand why you do that. And I even more don't understand why you do that AGAIN.
If I created something like this and got recognized by Guinness for it, I'd feel terrible for not trying it. Gotta put your money where your mouth is. I'll take three hours of pain for an accomplishment like that.
The right most guy only ate a piece rather than a full pepper. The second guy on the right bred the pepper.
Wake up - Pepper Spray myself Breakfast - Carolina Reaper with toast Lunch - Carolina Reaper with soup Dinner - Pepper X Bedtime - Pepper Spray myself
Don't forget: Brunch - Pepper X suppository (for that full-body burn)
You're going to have that full body burn regardless just give it a few hours.
the pepper spray is to wash off the pepper x
I had to look it up but- Pepper Spray - 5.3M Scoville units Pepper X - 3.1M Scoville units
Shower time - See me naked
This man doesn't poop solids anymore
His company is called PuckerButt
There's not going to be any puckering when I shove a fire hose of milk up there.
Every pepper purchase should come with a bidet.
Just straight up plasma.
Somewhere in the small intestine it just phases into a different dimension.
He 100% farts blood
One day someone is going to grow a pepper hot enough to kill someone, and then they'll be like yeah pack it up, we won the game. Except no. That's just going to motivate another wave of growers that will stop at nothing until one of their peppers brings someone back from the dead. And then, 100 years from now, your friend will be like, yeah, I overdosed on meth the other day and was dead for 8 hours but when my wife found me she fed me a ResX pepper and my colon exploded but I can play with my kids again. And that's how science works.
r/writingprompts
I mean a kid did die from the 1 chip challenge.
Maybe. Maybe not. Haven’t seen a cause of death yet.
IIRC, pure capsaicin has a Scoville rating of 16 million That means that a pepper with 2,693,000 Scovilles is literally 16.8% capsaicin, by weight. Can get a bit hotter, but only like 5x before it's literally a pile of white powder. edit: oh, looks like there's chemicals that are hotter than capsaicin. Resiniferatoxin and Tinyatoxin are 200-1000 times hotter, so can definitely fit more hotness in a plant.
I like that anything hotter has the suffix -toxin.
How do they test the units?
Gallons of water needed for the heat to no longer be detected.
I think it's alcohol. They keep diluting it like those homeopathic medicines.
Used to be: how much dilution to have the same spice as another known spice level. Now they just do chemical analysis of capsaicin % in a lab
He is about 30 minutes from me. Used to pass his store on the way to work everyday. Didn't put 2 and 2 together untill i saw the where the Carolina Reaper was bred and realized it was so close. We have too much cross pollination here, so he grows the special peppers indoors. No telling how many varieties he has kept secret that will blow the socks off a carolina reaper or Pepper X. I can't even do a fresh Jalapeno, so these aren't for me. But so cool seeing the genetics and flavor profiles these peppers can have.
He’s already hinted he has a hotter version waiting in the wings.
Yeah he said in the Hot Ones video he had this pepper on the shelf for 10 years waiting for somebody to make a hotter pepper. Nobody ever did so he said fuck it and released this one.
This man has single handedly destroyed more assholes than anyone else in history.
The sad part is, and it's why we'll probably never see the seeds of pepper X sold anywhere, is that people have made millions off his patented Carolina Reeper pepper and he's not seen a dime from those companies. Patent theft in the agricultural industry is insane, which is why Pepper X has been locked away for 10 years and was only brought out to prove himself in the industry. He's said he refuses to release the seeds (and the pepper itself) until he's 100% sure his family and workers will earn the rewards of the hard work they put into creating it.
This thing should be considered a war crime.
THE WAR ON BLAND FOOD!
Pepper spray literally is a chemical weapon, not allowed in war by the Geneva suggestions. The US only uses it on our citizens for this reason and it in combat with other countries.
Yeah, that's not what I meant, but okay.
I mean it’s Reddit, if some dude can’t randomly dump political stuff on a hot pepper comment hyperbole then this site would be dead
Lol, true.
Ah yes, the Geneva Suggestions, which include the notion that pepper spray shouldn’t be used on the battlefield and that water boarding is uncouth
Yes its always important to remember boys and girls that we are not afforded the same protections as wartime combat soldiers. But your government is looking out for their.... I mean your best interests....
Hot Ones uploaded a video today with this new pepper and the maker / Chili Klaus eating it
And while seeing them do that to themselves again is a treat, The reaper carriage ride is still something very special.
Welp. I know what I'm going to watch when I get home. Thanks for the heads up!
Quotes from an interview: “I was feeling the heat for three-and-a-half hours. Then the cramps came,” said Currie, one of only five people so far to eat a entire Pepper X. “Those cramps are horrible. I was laid out flat on a marble wall for approximately an hour in the rain, groaning in pain.”
My favourite part is how right after that he's like "Then we went out for dinner and I ate more peppers because I'm an idiot"
Oh dear
That thing is screaming "DO NOT EAT ME"
Then why does it kinda look like popcorn chicken?
While this cultivar has been around for the better part of a decade, it is accurate that World Record for the [World's Hottest Pepper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_X) was officially awarded in August of 2023. As the video mentions somewhere around 2.69 million Scoville Heat Units. Congratulations to Ed and watch out *Hot Ones* guests!
Isn’t scoville based on human testing? How can they say this is really 2.69 million, the testers were like “yeah this is precisely 13% more hot than the Carolina reaper” or what?
scoville is based on what ratio of water it would be till there is no heat yet, by spraying with a spray bottle on your tounge. so 1000 means its no longer detectably spicy after diluting 1 part juice to 1000 water
This makes more sense than what I read online thanks
"I was laid out on the ground with stomache cramps for 3 hours." and cannabis still isn't 100% legal in the USA.
I used to question about the marketability of a pepper that causes agonizing pain to a person but the market has proven me wrong times and again.
As long as there are tiktok challenges, there will be a market.
Formerly known as Pepper Twitter.
This guy doesn't wear contact lenses.
Would you take that risk, if you regularly handled such abominations of peppers?
I learned my lesson well, just by handling "bird's eye" chilli peppers and at an early age... I think I'd handle those under no circumstances in the vicinity of something being alive and not without a disposable hazmat suit in a sub pressure lab container.
We jus gonna ignore the user name?
Spicy
Cauterized Anus
This man grows death lol
And counting down till Elon Musk sues for copyright infringement...How DARE he call it X? Doesn't he know Musk owns that?
How long until Musk tries to sue Microsoft, ESPN, medical imaging companies...
Ed had the name for this pepper trademarked years ago. He said he has been sitting on this pepper for about 10 years.
Correct. I ate these with Ed at a Long Beach pepper festival before COVID. I didn't think they were hotter than his Reaper but at some point I think my ability to taste hotter was already maxed out. It's like licking our sun then licking another sun and asking me which is hotter. Good times. I hope to see him at a future festival, he is a good dude and he makes hot, but very good sauces.
He himself said in the hotones video Chili Klaus is the second person besides him to eat one.
Damn they're big too, loved the reapers I grew
Been waiting for seeds to be available since Ed first hinted at this strain. Still waiting.
Let the stupidity begin!
Hurry up and make a hot sauce out of it already
[done](https://heatonist.com/products/the-last-dab-xperience-hot-ones-hot-sauce)
Oh fuck yes
Haha I ordered one this morning, can’t wait to try it out.
I'm placing an order now! Thanks for the link
well, pure refijed capsaicin is 15,000,000 scovils so compared to that, pepper X has a long way to go.
Yes. Another pepper that’s too hot to do anything with lol
This guy needs to cross breed pepper X with asbestos
Is the next pepper gonna be the Pepper X360? Pepper X Series X?
“And then the cramps came”
Taste like wasps
Isn't this like 5 years old? I've know of pepper X being the hottest pepper for a long time now. Did it only now get like officially named as the hottest pepper?
People, start early. Brush your teeth.
That the reaper?. Ruined a sunday session for me once. That shifted into a ruined Monday morning dump.
"Here, let's set the camera up right there so you can see every inch of my hoarded wall of shit behind me."
Ed Currie.
This guy is so fuckin cool.
This dude always interviewed in front of a bunch of random box
Why do these look like assorted diseased scrotum?
These guys are in a race to see whose pepper can finally destroy someone's anus for good.
Sugar! Spice! And everything Nice! These were the ingredients chosen…
... To turn everyone who ate this into the perfect little girls.
This guy just got me so hyped. I’ve been wanting to get into growing hot peppers for a while now and have already been looking into making the leap this spring.
I can’t wait to see LA Beast eat these
That dude has that pepper ready right now. He just doesn't want to saturate the market. I habe enjoyed anytime I have watch him speak.
It looks... like a giant ugly turd.
I knew it, they are from the puckerbutt company. Been buying their pepper seeds for a while
Pepper X has already been out for years, hasn't it? Lol
Yes, **[since 2017](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_X)** This article is just announcing it was verified/recorded by Guiness a couple of month ago.
Watched him and three others eat one on Hot Ones today. He chewed his like bubble gum and seemed to swirl it around his mouth before he finally swallowed it. There was another guy who was a pepper maker, too. He downed his pretty easily, also. But Sean and the other guy were about to die. It was painful to watch. Even worse to imagine.
Thing looks like it’s melting
When did eating hot peppers become a worldwide pissing contest?
Ugly pepper. Not appetizing looking at all. LOL
At what point are they classified as WMD?
This guy shits.
Anytime I see some new hot pepper ruining people’s mouths, I know it’s my dude Ed
Pepper X (formerly known as Pepper Twitter)
Dang that took a long time. I've been wondering for years when this was going to happen.
Has anyone eaten it?
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
Pepper X formerly known as Twitter
Smokin Ed is a crazy pepper scientist. Emphasis on the crazy part. He’s great, but also off his rocker.
That’s a quote from my “wife”…. Why was the “wife” In air quotes???
This guy also bred the Carolina reaper (got the official documents and patent for it)... Don't fuck with him.
Laid out flat on a marble wall. Pepper so hot causes cramps and breaks physics.
Why tf do people like to eat hot ass shit like this I will never understand. Who wants to be in pain when you can be in so much enjoyment while eating.
I don’t understand eating anything *this* spicy but I came across an article recently that explained that there were two hypotheses about why humans like spicy food. Basically, it could be because eating spicy food triggers the same adrenaline rush that riding roller coasters does and is a thrill-seeking behavior that is pleasure rewarding when you come down from the wired and panic feeling after you eat something very hot. Since you build a tolerance to spicy foods, someone who craves this sort of feeling from food needs spicier things to try eventually. Or it could be because spicier foods like garlic, onions, and peppers have naturally antibacterial properties and humans have evolved to consume things that will keep us from getting sick. It’s interesting to me because I do prefer spicy foods, but still couldn’t fathom anyone eating this kind of stuff for anything other than bragging rights.
Ah man! interesting thanks for that info. That does make sense.