With the recent crowning of Pepper X as the new Guinness World Record holder for hottest chili pepper, here's a look into just how the spiciness of a pepper is calculated — and some examples of very ...

The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion has been named the hottest pepper on the planet by New Mexico State University’s Chile Pepper Institute, according to the Associated Press. The cherry-tomato-sized pepper ...

After trying Ghost Scorpion Lager, Micah Siegmund lost the capacity for speech and coherent thought. The beer - made with two of the hottest peppers in the world, Trinidad Moruga Scorpion and ghost ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – There are super-hot chile varieties. And then there’s the sweat-inducing, tear-generating, mouth-on-fire Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. With a name like that, it’s not surprising ...

CANDLER, North Carolina (WLOS) — Late September is harvest time for the hottest member of Asheville’s “Foodtopia” scene: the chili pepper. Joel Mowrey of Smoking J’s Fiery Foods said the location of ...

So I ate the world’s hottest chili this weekend. The Trinidad Scorpion pepper was measured at 1.4 million Scoville Heat Units last year, usurping the Bhut Jolokia as the king of capsaicin. It’s slowly ...