You may like spicy foods, but do you think you could handle the hottest pepper in the world? In the world of record-breaking hot ones, there's a new sheriff in town – the Guinness World Records ...

FORT MILL, S.C. — Ed Currie, the South Carolina hot pepper expert who crossbred and grew the Carolina Reaper that’s hotter than most pepper sprays police use to subdue unruly criminals, has broken his ...

FORT MILL, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – At Puckerbutt Pepper Company, the heat grabs your attention. As we discovered, there’s far more than meets the taste buds, but that takes some time to get past. “It ...

The world has a new hottest pepper. And it comes from our backyard, right in Fort Mill. The Guinness Book of World Records recently certified Pepper X, as it’s called. Just how hot is it? The heat in ...

PuckerButt Pepper Company founder Ed Currie answers the internet's sizzling questions about peppers. Why do only mammals taste capsaicin? What kind of peppers are used in military grade pepper spray?

FORT MILL — A peppery haze is omnipresent in the back of a rural warehouse, causing one's eyes to water and nose to tingle. Ed Currie, creator of the Carolina Reaper and Pepper X, said he doesn’t even ...