The spiciest of the crisps are made with the second hottest chilli in the world Credit: Seabrook Crisps. #12 – Bedfordshire Super Naga 1,120,000 SHU The UK’s largest chilli grower, Salvatore Genovese, whose farm is in Blunham in the county of Bedfordshire, produces 500,000 chilli peppers every week. You don't need a hazmat suit to try out the world's hottest peppers, but a healthy appreciation for spicy foods -- and a willingness to cry in front of your friends -- will certainly come in handy. It really says a lot about the state of super-hot peppers when the notorious ghost pepper – once Guinness Book champ – barely cracks the top 15 hottest peppers in the world. Altho fruits from an individual plant did reached over 2 million heat units, unfortunately, it did not qualify for the Guinness World record "Hottest Chille". #15 Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia) 855,000 to 1,041,427 Scoville heat units See our full ghost pepper profile here. Smokin’ Ed Currie, owner of the PuckerButt Pepper Co. in Fort Mill, S.C., sorts samples of Smokin’ Ed’s Carolina Reaper, named by Guinness World Records as the word’s hottest chile pepper. Last, but certainly not least, we have the Carolina Reaper ranking at 2,200,000 SHU. The Bhut jolokia (IPA: [ˈbʱʊt.zɔˌlɔkiˌja]), also known as ghost pepper, ghost chili pepper, ghost chili and ghost jolokia, is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in the Northeast Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Manipur as well as in Nepal. This is the first pepper recored to exceed 2,000,000 Scoville heat units. Biting into the "hottest pepper in the world" sounds painful enough. Before the Dragon's Breath took the title, these were the 11 hottest chili peppers in the world. Back in February 2012, the New Mexico State University’s Chili Pepper Institute recognized the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion as the hottest chili pepper in the world at the time. I guess once we identified the hottest pepper in the world, all we could do from there was make them hotter ourselves. Second place may generally be considered a losing position, but in the case of the World’s Hottest Peppers, that’s not necessarily true. The only other pepper listed by the Guinness Book of World Records that beats the Trinidad Scorpion pepper is Carolina Reaper pepper. As of 2017, the Carolina Reaper is the world's hottest pepper. NOTE ABOUT PEPPER X AND DRAGON’S BREATH: In the past year, there have been a couple peppers claiming to be the newest “Hottest Pepper in the World”. The hottest peppers are always changing, but here's a pretty updated list. Grow it … Carolina Reaper. A man who ate the world's hottest chilli pepper in a chilli-eating contest ended up in hospital after experiencing "thunderclap" headaches. The brand’s spiciest and “most dangerous” sauce, Reaper Squeezins, is 92% Carolina reaper peppers, plus vinegar. Prior to this searing new comer, the Red Savina Habanero (a cultivar of the Habanero) was ranked the hottest. The Moruga Scorpion pepper was declared world's hottest pepper by New Mexico State University in Feb. 2012, with a SHU range between 580,198 and 2,009,231. Scovilles scale: 1200000 – 2000000 Pepper category: Super Hot. The Carolina Reaper is the world’s hottest chili pepper. As of 2017, the Carolina Reaper is the world's hottest pepper. Many mistakenly believe the Ghost Pepper is still the World’s Hottest pepper, this list shows it is far from it. 1. This isn’t 2007. It's been way too long since we updated our article about the hottest peppers in the world. The next hottest pepper on the list, the Carolina Reaper -- the former Guinness World Record World's Hottest Chile as of 2014 -- pales in comparison with its 2.2m Scoville rating. The Guinness World Records officially recognized it as such in 2013. The hottest chilli pepper is Smokin Ed's 'Carolina Reaper', grown by Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Company (USA), which rates at an average of 1,641,183 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), according to tests conducted by Winthrop University in South Carolina, USA, throughout 2017.