NYC Hot Sauce Expo - Carolina Reaper Eating Contest

The complete event filmed from the audience. This was during the second annual NYC Hot Sauce Expo, march 2014 in New York City. The Carolina Reaper is a hybrid chili pepper of the Capsicum chinense species, originally called the “HP22B“, bred by cultivator Ed Currie, who runs PuckerButt Pepper Company. The Carolina Reaper was rated as the world’s hottest chili pepper by Guinness World Records according to 2012 tests, averaging 1,569,300 SHU on the Scoville scale with peak levels of over 2,200,000 SHU. Rus