
From 'Hot Ones' to Creating the Hottest Pepper in the World, Smokin' Ed Currie Says He's on a Mission From God to Bring Pleasure and Pain to the Masses
Dan Bova
created: June 5, 2025, 5:18 p.m. | updated: June 6, 2025, 8:59 p.m.
Well, this week's guest runs the PuckerButt Pepper Company, and he wants you to feel things on a whole different level.
His creations have been featured on Hot Ones and he is the Guinness Book of World Records holder for creating the world's hottest pepper, Pepper X.
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Pepper X is 2.693 million Scoville Heat Units.
If I needed to use 55 gallons of jalapeno to heat something up the way I wanted to, it'd take a pint of Pepper X to do the exact same thing.
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