Measuring over 1.5 million on the Scoville Heat Unit Scale, our next guest's creation, known as the Carolina Reaper, was awarded the Guinness World Record in November of 2013 as the hottest pepper in the world.
Mike Switzer interviews Ed Currie, founder, president, and mad-scientist AKA Smokin' Ed of the Puckerbutt Pepper Company (the name of the company will not be mentioned over the air), who grows these peppers and more in his Rock Hill, South Carolina greenhouse.