Breeding the World s Hottest Pepper

In the competitive world of hot pepper breeding, one man is smoking the competition. Meet Smokin Ed Currie. Hes the man behind the worlds hottest pepperthe Carolina Reaper. For the past three decades, Currie has been pushing the limits of the Scoville scalebreeding hotter and hotter peppers. We went behind the scenes at his South Carolina farm, where hes bred a number of secret, unreleased specimens that he claims are even hotter than his famous Reaper. You may want to have some milk ready for thi