The World’s Hottest!
Dive into the extreme world of Smokin' Ed Currie, the undisputed champion of heat.
Hot off the press
The Newest World’s Hottest Pepper.
In October 2023, Pepper X® officially dethroned Smokin' Ed's Carolina Reaper® as the new World’s Hottest Pepper, establishing a fiery new benchmark in extreme heat.
A pepper prodigy
Smokin" Ed Currie is an American chili pepper breeder, founder, president, and mad scientist at the PuckerButt Pepper Company. Renowned for pushing the boundaries of heat, he is the creator of some of the hottest peppers on the planet, including the current Guinness World Record holder, Pepper X®️, and the former world's hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper®️.
Smokin" Ed
SEEDS
SAUCES
MASH
A MAN ON FIRE
🔥 Smokin' Ed began cultivating peppers at home in the 1980s to explore the relationship between lifestyle habits and disease. By the 1990s, he was nurturing 800 hot pepper plants not only in his own home but also in others', eventually founding America’s largest pepper farm. Today, this farm cultivates over 100,000 pepper plants, including the Guinness World Record-winning Smokin' Ed's Carolina Reaper® and the current World’s Hottest Pepper, Pepper X®. Now, Ed and his team supply premier food providers worldwide with a specialty line of spicy sauces, seasonings, and snacks.
AS SEEN ON
Smokin’ Ed’s partnership with Hot Ones and Heatonist brings you the spiciest show on the internet, complete with burning questions and blazing wings. We're proud to have provided the Pepper Mash for their famous Last Dab - the last & hottest sauce on every episode.
VOLCANIC flavor
SEASON YOUR TASTE BUDS WITH HEAT