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When blended into sauces, the peppers can be used to flavor chicken wings, cooked meats, pasta, Asian noodle dishes, chilies, stews, and soups. The skin tends to sport a bumpy texture, though some can have a smoother texture.Ĭarolina Reapers are normally use for the production of sprays or sauces, because the fruit consumed, even in very low amounts, can cause unpleasant sensations to the human body. The Carolina Reaper is a smaller pod, ranging from 1 to 2 inches wide (2.5 – 5 cm) and 2 to 3 inches (5 – 7.6 cm) long. The South Carolina native is a hybrid that surpassed the Moruga Scorpion as the world’s hottest chili pepper. The Carolina Pepper was created by “Smokin” Ed Currie Ed Currie at his greenhouse in Rock Hill, South Carolina and in 2017 entered into the official Guinness World Record heat level with 1,641,183 Scoville Heat Units (SHU) in 2017. Look no further than the Carolina Reaper sauce when searching for the hottest sauce on the planet. SCOVILLE HEAT UNIT OF 1,400,000 – 2,200,000 SHU. From our kitchen the same peppers we use to make the worlds hottest peanuts These whole dried Carolina Reaper Pepper pods are the hottest we could find.
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Compare that to a typical jalapeno pepper, which averages about 5,000 Scoville Heat Units, and the hottest Carolina Reaper is up to 440 times hotter. Compared to your average jalapeno pepper, it measures 175 to 880 times hotter. With a Scoville scale (SHU) exceeding 1 million units, the Carolina Reaper is considered the hottest pepper ever created and currently sold on the market.
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Carolina Reaper Pepper is the current champion of Peppers grown all around the world.