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Pepper X crowned world's hottest pepper by Guinness World Records
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The South Carolina hot pepper expert who set a world record for the hottest pepper a decade ago is at it again.
Ed Currie has officially broken the record with Pepper X, a crossbreed of the Carolina Reaper, which was Currie's old record holder.
Pepper X is hotter than pepper and bear sprays, coming in at 2.69 Scoville units, the scientific measurement for a pepper's hotness.
A regular jalapeno registers around 5,000 units and a habanero, the record-holder about 25 years ago usually tops 100,000.
The Guinness Book of World Records lists the Carolina Reaper at 1.64 million units.
Currie said he ate a Pepper X and felt the heat for three-and-a-half hours.
