The Pepper X beat the previous world record held by the Carolina Reaper, also grown by Currie, which has an average heat level of 1.57 million Scoville heat units.

Peppers are measured on a heat scaled called Scoville heat units (SHU). On that scale, bell peppers score a 0, poblano peppers contain 1,500 SHU and jalapenos—which we all know for their spice ...

Scoville scale. 100 to 1000 SHU units. It is one of the mild sweet peppers and low on the Scoville scale, where jalapeno's Scoville units range from 3000 to 7000 SHU units. [feast_advanced_jump_to] ...

Poblano and sriracha rate between 1,000 and 2,500, jalapenos up to 8,000, cayenne can peak at 50,000, habaneros up to 350,000 and the ghost pepper, one of the hottest, as much as 2,200,000 units.

Bred by Ed Currie, a South Carolina hot pepper grower and owner of PuckerButt Pepper Company, it boasts an average heat level of 2.69 million Scoville heat units.

Poblano and sriracha rate between 1,000 and 2,500, jalapenos up to 8,000, cayenne can peak at 50,000, habaneros up to 350,000 and the ghost pepper, one of the hottest, as much as 2,200,000 units.

The Scoville scale for measuring heat in peppers was established in 1912. It's high time for an upgrade. ... One PPM translates to 16 Scoville units, so that scale tops out at 16 million.

To get a sense of the spectrum, bell peppers rank around a 0 on Scoville Heat Units (SHUs), ... That’s around the spice of a Cuban pepper, but less than a poblano.

Pepper X, which has a rating of 2,693,000 Scoville Heat Units was named hottest chili pepper in the world by Guinness World Records on Oct. 9. The heat of the pepper lingered with Currie hours ...

We stocked up on chiles this week to take a proper survey of the city's spice scene and found a huge range of Scoville heat units. Excluding bell peppers — technically chiles, but with a ...