This is What Happens When You Eat the World’s Hottest Pepper [Video]

Before you go out and try the Trinidad Scorpion “Butch T” pepper, currently the world’s hottest pepper, or the HP22B, which could soon be named as its replacement, you should watch the video below. Unsurprisingly, eating the world’s hottest pepper is not a pleasant experience.

Ed Currie believes that he has grown the world’s hottest pepper. Why? Well, because the first time he and his friends tried it, four people threw up.

“The first time we tried it, out of the six of us…four puked. So I knew I was on the right path, you know.”

Undeterred by the unappealing story, NPR’s Marshall Terry decided to test the strength of his taste buds and eat Currie’s pepper. This is what happened. (Warning: The video contains vomiting, copious amounts of sweating, nervous chair rocking, and even some hallucinating.)

Currie said:

“Your heart will race, you’ll sweat. You might shake, you might throw up. But once it gets into your blood stream and gets into your brain the capsaicin releases the same endorphins that narcotics do. So you get a euphoric feeling.”

For Ed Currie’s pepper to be named the hottest in the world, he’ll have to beat the Trinidad Scorpion “Butch T” pepper from Australia, which according to NPR, measures 1.4 million Scoville. Chemistry professor Dr. Calloway says that Ed’s peppers average 1.5 million Scoville. And just so you know, a typical jalapeno comes in at about 3,000 Scoville.

Would you ever put the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T Pepper, or Ed Currie’s HP22B, anywhere near your mouth?