Pepper Master Ed Currie Tastes The Hottest Peppers From 11 Countries

Smokin’ Ed Currie, founder and president of PuckerButt Pepper Company, returns to Epicurious to taste and rank some of the hottest chile peppers from 11 countries around the globe. 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 peppers rank in his expert opinion.