There is no precise scientific answer to this question because it does vary from person to person. If you are going to endure all of the pain that comes with eating the world’s hottest pepper, of course you will want to know how long the sensation lasts.
Substance P, a neuropeptide that signals pain, travels to your brain, unleashing a cascade of defensive biological reactions. “Now the warmth of your own mouth trips the receptor and creates a burning sensation,” she says. That’s lower than your normal body temperature. These receptors are typically activated by temperatures more than 110☏, but once the capsaicin latches on, the activation temperature drops to about 93☏, says Nadia Byrnes, Ph.D. As capsaicin spreads through your mouth, it binds to TRPV1 receptors, which your body uses to detect heat. You think, “Okay, maybe it’s not that bad.”īut as soon as you think you’re tough, a brick of pain hits your body. Your cells would prepare to heal the burn, so as a result, the first few seconds will have a mediocre burn that comes on. Your body reacts the same way it would if it were going under attack from a severe burn. So, when you ingest the capsaicin, it stimulates nerve endings that tell your brain that it’s feeling pain. The highest concentration is found in the inner wall where the seeds are attached. It’s a molecular compound that’s in every part of the Carolina Reaper except for the seeds. This is what makes the pepper feel like you are trapped in Satan’s armpit. Well to answer that question, let me tell you about my little friend, Capsaicin. I understand that thought may be a little dramatic, but with heat like that, I am very concerned with the physical and even emotional pain that the pepper evokes. I mean besides the obvious, IT BURNS!!! What else is there to it, and what are some of the longer-lasting results of eating the pepper? When I was asked if I would ever eat the pepper, the first thing that came to my mind was, “COULD I DIE?” Yikes! What happens to you if you eat the Carolina Reaper? They film their reactions, and are hilarious to watch! C-Reap (rap name) holds quite the punch.Ī big trend today is to have challenges where people eat the reaper consequently for losing a bet or even just for their own curiosity. That’s a hot Pepper! To put that in perspective, that’s about 300 times hotter than even the most intense jalapeño…. The Carolina Reaper is the hottest pepper known to man ranking in at 1,569,300 Scoville Heat Units. People develop a tolerance for them, and they want something more.Here to answer all your BURNING questions! Hahaha… See what I did there?įor all you brave souls who are intrigued by this, listen up. "People start with sauces like Tabasco, and they are good sauces, but they aren't really hot. "For the general public, is a condiment," Currie said, when we spoke to him in 2018.
He goes by Smokin' Ed, and he describes himself as owner, president, mad scientist and chef at PuckerButt Pepper Company in South Carolina. Which brings us to these questions: Why this pursuit of developing hotter and hotter peppers? And who is eating them?įor answers, it makes sense to go to the man responsible for developing both Pepper X and The Smokin' Ed Carolina Reaper (that's a trademarked name, by the way): Ed Currie. It took 10 years to develop as of 2020, Guinness World Records (which had earlier crowned the Carolina Reaper as the hottest pepper) had not yet confirmed that Pepper X was now the hottest pepper. In 2017, a new pepper, known only as Pepper X came on the scene, rating about 3.2 million Scoville units. Carolina Reapers rate 2.2 million on the Scoville heat scale. That honor officially belongs to the Carolina Reaper, which earned its title as the hottest pepper in the world - beating out a pepper called the Trinidad Scorpion - in 2013. To put things in perspective, that's at least 100 times hotter than a jalapeño, which ranks anywhere between about 2,500 and 8,000 Scoville units.īut ghost peppers aren't even the hottest. Ghost peppers, for those of you that don't know, are some of the hottest in the world and rate 1 million per pepper on the Scoville heat scale (a scientific measure of how hot a pepper is). For instance, in May 2017, a competitive eater who goes by the name LA Beast set a Guinness World Record for eating the most ghost peppers in two minutes - 13. You may have seen one of those crazed contests on YouTube or at a fair where people "compete" to eat as many hot peppers as possible. There are several different types of people who are attracted to eating super-hot peppers.
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