No surprises here.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the appropriately named Carolina Reaper Pepper is the hottest chili pepper in the world.
The hottest Carolina Reaper pepper measures in at 2.2 million Scoville Heat Units (SHU); by way of comparison, a jalapeno measures somewhere between 3,500 and 10,000 SHU.
So, yeah, it’s pretty damn hot.
YouTuber Lizzy Wurst and her friend Sabrina decided to give it a go in a video on Lizzy’s YouTube channel recently and while it might have seemed a good idea at the time, they lived to regret it after roughly five seconds.
Clip via Lizzy Wurst
How the video above wouldn’t put you off ever trying it out for yourself we’ll never know, but some people love a challenge and if a capacity to handle spicy food is your thing, then this is your Everest.
Hard to believe somebody actually ate three of these in under 11 seconds in 2014. No, really.
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