Name: Breeding the World’s Hottest Pepper
Uploaded: 2018-06-05T07:28:38.000Z
Duration: 3 min 19 s
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[Camera Man] Go ahead and put it in your mouth.

[Narrator] Since the first time it was announced

to the public that we were growing these, there were

literally thousands of YouTube videos of people eating

Though it can be unpleasant, it's not a dangerous thing

[Narrator] It's a chemical reaction your brain perceives

I got into breeding peppers in college and just really

was interested in getting hotter and hotter peppers once I tried them.

Guinness awarded me the world record for the hottest pepper in November of 2013.

To breed these things, I crossed a ghost pepper

with a habanero, and what came out was this evil

looking pepper that had warts all over it,

And the first time I tasted it, it knocked me to my knees.

We get our peppers tested regularly at Winthrop University by doctor Calloway in the chemistry lab.

All peppers are measured by Scoville heat units,

Bell peppers have zero Scoville heat units.

Jalapeño is about 5,000, a Serrano 20,000,

red habaneros 200,000, ghost peppers 600,000,

which is 1,569,000 heat units, the hottest thing in the world.

When you eat the Carolina Reaper, the first sensation

you get is sweet, and then all of a sudden the heat

starts going, it's like burning, burning, burning!

Your eyes will bloodshot, they just start

tearing up and watering, the skin flushes,

you start breathing hard, your metabolism

Some people say it's like eating molten lava.

Others will say it's like licking the sun.

To me, it's like eating a charcoal briquette

and no matter what you do you cannot get that burn

A lot of what I do is creative expression.

You look for traits in one pepper, and you look

for traits in another and you try to combine them

There are other breeders who are trying to break our record,

but, uh, we've been holding unreleased peppers in our back pocket

that are twice as hot or more than the Carolina Reaper

that we could submit to Guinness at any time.

My perception of what the limits are, of how hot

you can breed a pepper has changed as the science

Just tell me something can't be done, I'm gonna figure

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Breeding the World’s Hottest Pepper

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