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Don't Fear the Reaper | Eating the World's Hottest Chilli

Don't Fear the Reaper | Eating the World's Hottest Chilli

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For this week's episode we travelled to America and ate the world's hottest chilli. So never let our commitment to stupid content be questioned.

The Carolina Reaper clocks in at around 2.2 million units on the Scoville scale, which measures the spiciness of chilli peppers – that's about ten times the heat of a Scotch bonnet. It's the creation of Smokin' Ed Currie, the mastermind behind Puckerbutt Pepper Co., who was kind enough to sit down with us for an interview in his shop in Fort Mill, South Carolina. 

Ed talked us through how he came to produce the world's hottest peppers, the role that chillis have played in his recovery from addiction, and his plans for an even spicier future. And, of course, we couldn't leave without trying a Reaper for ourselves...

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