date:Aug 25, 2016
The first time Ed Currie tasted the Carolina Reaper, a fire-engine red chilli pepper the size of a golf ball, it knocked me to my knees, he says. I was very surprised.
Currie, whos the founder of the PuckerButt Pepper Company and cultivator of the Carolina Reaper, says he wasnt trying to create the hottest pepper in the world. His initial aim was to produce a pepper packed with capsaicinoids, a family of compounds that has been used in pharmaceuticals such as arthritis creams. Currie had heard