Chilli expert scorches his own heat record with the Pepper X

A Pepper X (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

The US hot chilli pepper expert who grew the infamous Carolina Reaper has broken his own world record with a variety that is much hotter.

Pepper X was publicly named the hottest chilli in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records in Ed Currie’s decade-long hunt to perfect a pepper that provides “immediate, brutal heat”.