PuckerButt Pepper Company founder Ed Currie answers the internet's sizzling questions about peppers. Why do only mammals taste capsaicin? What kind of peppers are used in military grade pepper spray?

On a sunny morning at his farm outside Charlotte, North Carolina, Smokin’ Ed Currie, the world’s greatest cultivator of hot peppers, hands me a spoon bearing a sliver of yellow chilli. He has no name ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with hot pepper expert Ed Currie about Pepper X, which was named the hottest pepper in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records. What's small, wrinkly, greenish-yellow ...

FORT MILL, S.C. — Ed Currie, the South Carolina hot pepper expert who crossbred and grew the Carolina Reaper that’s hotter than most pepper sprays police use to subdue unruly criminals, has broken his ...

He's looking to beat his own world record. Food & Wine / Puckerbutt Pepper Co. The man who developed the “hottest pepper in the (known) world” is the legendary farmer and pepper-sauce manufacturer and ...

Pepper master and hot sauce expert Smokin' Ed Currie returns to Epicurious, this time to answer your burning questions about hot peppers.Read More: 18 Types of Peppers and How to Cook With Them ...

FORT MILL, S.C. - Ed Currie, the South Carolina hot pepper expert who crossbred and grew the Carolina Reaper that’s hotter than most pepper sprays police use to subdue unruly criminals, has broken his ...