I’m getting heartburn just thinking about this:  There’s a new record for WORLD’S HOTTEST PEPPER. A small, yellow-and-green pepper called Pepper X.  If you’re into this stuff, you’ve heard of it before.  On the show “Hot Ones”, it’s the pepper in their “Last Dab” hot sauce.  It’s been the unofficial record-holder for years, but Guinness finally just weighed in. Tests showed an average of 2.69 MILLION Scoville units.  The old record was Carolina Reapers at 1.6 million.  To put that in perspective, an average jalapeño is only 3,000 to 8,000 on the Scoville scale. The guy who created them also made Carolina Reapers, so he broke his own record.  He says it took over a decade of cross-breading.

If you’re a fan of spice and think you could handle a Pepper X pepper, you’re out of luck for now.  You can’t buy whole peppers yet, or the seeds.  For now, you can only buy Pepper X hot sauce.  There are a bunch of flavors, but one called The Last Dab: Xperience is supposed to be the hottest.