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Hottest Pepper
The world’s hottest pepper is constantly changing, evolving almost. It seems every year a new pepper is either created or discovered so check back often to see new record breaking peppers! PepperHead® has the most up-to-date list of the World’s Hottest Peppers. Here at PepperHead® we have been growing these “super hots” for over 20 years and have grown and eaten every pepper on this list. We are dedicated to providing you spicy lovers with the ability to grow all of these insanely spicy peppers in your own backyards. Without further ado, here is our Top 10 Hottest Pepper List.Share this Hottest Pepper List
Top 10 Hottest Peppers In The World [2026 Update]
SHU = Scoville Heat Unit (A measure of Spiciness) Pepper Scoville Scale displayed as Peak SHU Values SHU is a way of quantifying how spicy a pepper is by measuring the concentration of capsaicinoids. Capsaicin is the chemical responsible for the spicy sensation within a pepper.1. Pepper X 2,693,000 SHU
Pepper X is now the World’s hottest Pepper with an average of 2.69 Million Scoville Units and peaks over 3 Million SHU. Not much is known about this pepper since seeds have not been publicly released. So unfortunately you cannot taste or grow Pepper X yourself.
2. Carolina Reaper 2,200,000 SHU
The Carolina Reaper pepper is 200x hotter than a Jalapeno #WorldsHottestPepperJust looking at the pictures above, you know its one mean pepper. The Carolina Reaper has a unique stinger tail that is unlike any other pepper and every pod is different! It gets this insane heat from being a cross between a Ghost Pepper and a Red Habanero. Oddly enough this pepper doesn’t just have heat, but excellent fruity flavor to boot. Well, that is before it melts your face off. More Carolina Reaper Info
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You can now buy the reaper as powder, live plants or seeds so you can grow your own plant and try for yourself.3. Trinidad Moruga Scorpion 2,009,231 SHU
Straight from the depths of hell the Trinidad Scorpion Moruga Blend, AKA Moruga Scorpion, is a rare sought after pepper that was only just recently discovered.
Native to the lands of Moruga in Trinidad and Tobago. Once you take a bite of this formidable pepper the heat never stops building.
This pepper may be lacking the Reaper’s stinger, but don’t let that fool you. The Moruga Scorpion is every bit as hot as The Carolina Reaper.
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4. 7 Pot Douglah 1,853,936 SHU
Well renown in the pepper community as one of the hottest peppers with the best flavor.
The 7 Pot Douglah is the hottest pepper you can find that isn’t red.
The hottest “superhot” peppers are traditionally red, but the Douglah defies the odds by being brown AND scortching hot.
You can’t go wrong with fresh, dried, or powdered Douglah on any food.
Also known as 7 Pod Douglah, Chocolate 7 Pod or the 7 Pot Brown.
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5. 7 Pot Primo 1,469,000 SHU
The 7 Pot Primo is very distinctive with its long skinny “tail”.
This pepper was created by horticulturist Troy Primeaux.
Some peppers cultivators have tried to replicate the Primo look by breeding their own peppers to have a long stinger.
When you just look at this pepper, you know it’s going to be INSANELY hot. It coincidentally looks strikingly similar to The Carolina Reaper…
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6. Trinidad Scorpion “Butch T” 1,463,700 SHU
The Trinidad Scorpion Butch T is a previous Guinness World Record Holder (2011) from Australia.
No doubt it’s insanely hot, but other peppers have been proven to be hotter.
It’s aptly named due to the scorpion stinger found at the tip of the pepper and also the creator, Butch Taylor.
The burn from this pepper is unlike any other.
The Trinidad Scorpion Butch T pepper burns like you swallowed a 1,000 suns.More Butch T Info
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7. Naga Viper 1,349,000 SHU
Naga Viper is an extremely rare pepper cultivated in the UK. Hybrid of many different peppers and years of cross pollination created this variety of “Super HOT” pepper.
It was never fully stabilized before being released so pod variation is expected.
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8. Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia) 1,041,427 SHU
The Ghost Pepper is the most famous “Super Hot” due to the amount of press it has received in the past.
It exploded in popularity on YouTube and other social sites where pepperheads ate whole Ghost Peppers as part of a challenge.
This is the first pepper to scientifically test over 1 million scovilles.
Many mistakenly believe the Ghost Pepper is still the World’s Hottest pepper, this list shows it is far from it.This isn’t 2007. If you have friends that still think the Ghost Pepper is the hottest pepper, share this page with them. However, don’t be fooled by how low this is on the list as it can still bring a grown man to his knees. More Ghost Pepper Info
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9. 7 Pot Barrackpore ~1,000,000 SHU
The 7 Pot Barrackpore is one of the hottest of the 7 Pot peppers.
This one is from the Town of Chaguanas in Trinidad and Tobago.
Many of these “super hots” come from this region.
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10. Red Savina Habanero 500,000 SHU
Back in the early years of super hots, the Red Savina Habanero was KING!
It held the title of the World’s Hottest Pepper from 1994 to 2006. 12 Years!
The Red Savina has since been dethroned and many peppers have passed it in heat, but still to this day it is one of my favorite peppers to grow because it has the perfect balance of heat and flavor..
The Red Savina just barely makes the Top 10, but does so in fashion with its great flavor and extreme heat.
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Honorable Mentions
Lets talk about some upcoming hybrid peppers that show promise. These two hot peppers will be added to the list once their validity has been confirmed.Dragon’s Breath 2,483,584 SHU
There have been recent reports of a Dragon’s Breath pepper claiming to be hotter than the Carolina Reaper.Preliminary testing of the Dragon’s Breath pepper pegs it at 2,483,584 SHU which would blow the Carolina Reaper out of the water.It could be a publicity stunt in which the “news” websites ate up, even claiming Dragon’s Breath could kill you. Technically a pencil can kill you too…
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i bought a carton of peppers called super-chili from miners hardware on the central coast in calif.they are red and extremely hot.i have carolina reapers,ghost,habaneros,serrano and jalapeno planted.the carolina reaper and the thai are not ready but so far the super chili has been the hottest.i love hot peppers.
richard clark
You are in for a treat. Home grown Carolina Reapers are hotter than anything you can get in the stores.
I just bought Carolina Reapers in stater brothers in California.In my opinion they have the same kick as the ghost peppers.stater brothers does have them
Yeah they are! Everything in stores is picked early I feel so they aren’t quite as hot. I ate my first raw homegrown Carolina Reaper today and half of my face went numb. It was no joke. The throat/tongue burn is nuts. I have Ghost Peppers and Reapers growing and the Reaper is unbelievable.
RE: FreediverCN you are exactly right. Commercially grown peppers are picked too early and don’t have a chance to fully develop their heat.
The heat of a Reaper is otherworldly.
Where in the central coast I’m originally from the coast raised my whole life
Hi. I have got a chocolate habenero and my fella who eats chillis said a tiny bit of it was hotter than hes ever tasted. I would like to have it tested can you please help me were to send it please. Its hotter than hot…. please get back to me thanks viv….
2 years ago I started off growing (from seeds) a batch of 10 Carolina Reapers and 10 of the standard orange Habaneros side-by-side in planters. The first summer they were kept indoors in windows and I didn’t get any peppers (however I did unsuccessfully try to pollinate the flowers with a q-tip by hand). After I wintered them indoors, I finally transferred them outside “together” this spring with lots of bees and other pollinators — but now I’m starting to get ripe red Reapers without tails (and too close to tell what color my green Habaneros will turn into). Do all reaper peppers have a distinct tail? Or, should I assume more hybridization has gone on this summer because they’re closely enough genetically to do so and the two varieties were together a mere feet apart and were possibly cross pollinated? Does it take growing a second generation of those hybrid seeds into new fruit to know for sure — because I was wondering if I accidentally grew a tamer more Habanero-like pepper?
You would need to grow a second generation to see any hybridization.
Not all reapers exhibit the tail, but most plants should. If you post a picture to our facebook page I can help identify it for you.
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Hiii I’m Jesse and I’m 12 years old. I have eaten 5 reapers in the same 2 hours and honestly I have to say there not that hot in my opinion I didn’t even have more than a quarter cup of water after I ate them. But a pepper that ISNT EVEN ON THIS LIST is spicy as heck to me, it’s the orange habenero of course j eat them more often now to get used to them but it just doesn’t work lol.
I don’t think you ate a real reaper if you think an orange habanero is hotter
I just chuggeded a bottle of 100× Carolina reaper concentrate…. annnd nothing. Banana peppers are still the hottest to me
OMG…what a stupid thing to say publicly! LMAO!!
Hi my name is Mya, and I’m 12. My grandpa loves hot stuff. He tells the Chinese restaurant to make it as hot as they possibly can make it, but it’s always to mild for him. This year my dad decided to get some Carolina reaper seeds and grow them for him. We both can’t wait to see his reaction.! Lol But last year when me and my mom were driving home from North Carolina where we have family, we stopped at a college mall like rest stop and I saw a clear bottle of hot sauce and I got it extra hot for my grandpa. It was in a bottle that looked like a liquor bottle so when my grandma gave it to him she told him it was liquor and he took a drink and it burnt his lip! He had a blister on his lip for like a month after. Anyone know what pepper may have been used in this sauce?
Now, about these crazy (pointlessly?) hot peppers, I’ve seen people in the videos try them and then go for water..
Isn’t that just suicide?
In my experience, the one thing that actually worked decently was sugar.
Then, a lot worse but way better than water or nothing, bread.
What other things can you eat to save you from the heat and how effective are they compared to sugar or bread?
Dark or milk chocolate taken orally BEFORE you eat the peppers
As opposed to rectally?
Sugar or bread is very effective at reducing the pain afterwards. The bread will soak up the oils stuck on your tongue and inside your cheeks.
High fat dairy works wonders as well. Whole milk, yogurt or ice cream. Capsaicin only dissolves in fat, oil, or alcohol. Water will only make it worse by spreading it.
Like pictureboy said, if you drink milk before eating superhot peppers you can prevent the “gut burn” that follows eating these insane peppers.
I just read citric acid works the best to alleviate the pain because you will just throw up milk lol. I’ve never heard this before but I may try it when I get my Reapers later today
If I get ahold of something that’s too hot, I like chocolate milk afterwards.
My husband and I live in Turkey. On one of my trips home to America, I ordered some seeds for him b/c he loves hot peppers. He has been planting Habaneros each year and when he prepares them for sauce he burns off the skins. Sometimes I am not aware of what he is doing and suddenly I begin to choke due to the smell of the skins burning. The air carries the capsicum in the air and I can’t breathe. He loves them but I do not want to be in the house when he cooks the skins. This hot enough but on another trip home I bought Carolina Reaper seeds. This is the first year he will have a bumper crop of CRs and I do not want to be in the same house when he makes sauce.
Carolina Reapers cooked in the same way will have a similar effect, except MUCH worse. May I suggest he cook the skins outside?
Sauteing peppers will vaporize the capsaicin and basically creates pepper spray.
Hello, I am growing the Carolina Reaper in a pot and the plant has a lot of peppers now however they have remained green for about 3 weeks
Does anybody know how long does it take for the peppers to turn red?
Ray,
It does seem like Carolina Reaper pods take forever to ripen. They will, it just takes time! From flower to ripe pod it takes about 1 to 2 months. Environmental factors will change that time. There is nothing you need to do but wait.
Hi, thanks very much for the info. I thought I was doing something wrong and I just wanted to correct it.
mine took about 4 weeks bro and dam so far no one can handle them i make salsa’s that everyone always loves and they said if i make it with my homegrown reapers not to give them any… but the flavor you cannot go wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At least five days a week I eat a sandwich with a fresh or frozen hot pepper cut up on it. My favourite is a tie in taste between the Devil’s Tongue and the 7 Pot Primo. I over wintered my 7 Pot and Devil’s Tongue so I could have peppers in early June. The DT are the same as the original pods but the 7 Pot now has small pods that are as uncomfortable to eat as my Carolina Reaper and Scorpions. The pods from seeds of my 7 Pot Primo are three times the size and are just starting to ripen – if they are as hot maybe they could be called 21 Pot peppers LOL.
The 7 Pot Primo I ate yesterday felt like I had swallowed molten lava and a couple hours later my urine was like boiling water very similar to the effects of my Reaper and Scorpions last season.
Your urine shouldn’t be “spicy”. You might want to get that checked out.
Thanks for your concern. I see a nephrologist in a couple weeks for my annual renal checkup and I’ll ask him.
I spoke with my GP today about the after-heat in urine after eating hot peppers of the 7 Pot Primo or hotter variety and he likened it to the strong smell in urine that some people have after eating asparagus. It is not anything to be concerned about.
Again, thank you for your concern.
BTW, my new crop of 7 Pot Primo peppers are hot but they are not 21 Pot hot LOL.
I’m glad you were cleared by a doctor. I just have never heard of that before. I wonder if anyone else has experienced this.
Yes! the capsaicin can leech into your urine. I have 1st hand knowledge after eating only 1 “Nuclear Hell 2” chicken wing in 2010. The event was on the Food Network’s series Outrageous Eats at CK’s wings in Johnstown, PA. and the wing was rated at over 6,000,000 SHU. Needless to say, I will NEVER attempt that again.
I’m glad someone else could confirm this! I was concerned he might have had a separate health issue. I’ve eaten quite a few reapers and gladly have never experienced spicy urine before.
Cut up a couple reapers, put in with tequila, let sit 3 to 4 months. Had a couple hot shots, and the next morning you will feel like fire is coming out, that just might bring you to your knees. Decided to just make good warm margarita’s. Good stuff.
fck even jalapenos hurt me i ate one like a not spicy one but i was thinking of dieing after idk how u guys handle them other pepers that are super strong but true im only 11
Why do they all look like small poop? srsly
Some of these comments are pretty hilarious. I ate 150 Carolina reaper peppers and it was like eating bell peppers!!! Dragons breath still isn’t official?
Not “official” meaning Guinness hasn’t recognized Dragon’s Breath as hottest pepper. I am starting to wonder if it ever will be.
@ Antaniya… Yeah, and I drank a liter of diesel fuel, lit it on fire and it wasn’t hot either…
Wholesome respect to these hot peppers. I feel bad for the people that are eating these peppers daily.
i love jalapenos i cant taste any heat at all
OP, do you have a credible source supporting your claims that Dragon’s Breath is a hoax? I could find anything to support that claim. Blogging 101, when making a contraversial claim, outbound link to your source, good for SEO and helps your reputation.
Yup, looks like everything else is cloned n gmo’d off da red savina… How is there still new peppers poppin up, all same basic shape but bumpy n hotter n hotter… n wtf do they need hotter peppers for, to rub it in aliens eyes? Lol
All of these are the same species (capsicum chinense). This makes it relatively easy to cross breed these peppers to create new ones. Take the pollen from one plant and put it on another variety. Done. Heck, nature does this for us most of the time.
None of them are clones (which is an exact copy) or GMO (which would require a team of scientists and millions of dollars). A crossed variety is not a GMO. People have been crossing peppers for 1,000’s of years dating back to the ancient Mayans.
When growing anything it’s common practice 2 pick specimens with desired traits 2 reproduce, called 2 cultivate, or in humans 2 culture. In nature it’s a survival technique, 2 be attracted 2 a reproductive partner with genetic traits 2 pass down 2 offspring. Allowing 4 best chance of survival/continuation of genetic code.
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Well I do believe that Dragons Breath is officially the hottest in the world
I have about 20 Carolina Reaper seeds I am going to sprout them next month in February. Someone from my work gave me a few to eat and I saved the seeds. I can eat a whole one though I cut it up.
I tried two whole dried gohst peppers in school worst mistake ever i took two whole crates of milk and i stayed in the nurses office tje rest of the day 10/10 i want a Carolina reaper too
I just ate 2 Carolina Reapers in a row, I’m not going to lie, it’s really hot.
Lmao!
That’s impressive!
I can barely handle the habanero, I haven’t trird anything hotter yet.
At a Trinidad Moruga scorpion today at school and coundent talk through all first period it hurt like a
i could eat Carolina reapers for days they aint
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