'Pepper X' Creator Ed Currie Tastes 10 Of The Hottest Peppers in the World

Smokin’ Ed Currie, founder and president of PuckerButt Pepper Company, visits Epicurious to taste and rank 10 of the hottest chile peppers on the planet. As the pepper breeder who created the famous Carolina Reaper and a professional hot sauce maker, Ed knows a thing or two about flavor complexity and heat. See where each of these 10 peppers rank in his expert opinion.