Don't Fear the Reaper | Eating the World's Hottest Chilli

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Hungry Ghosts

Daniel Stables, Charlie Duckworth

21 episodes

9 months ago

Join travel writer Daniel Stables and professional boozehound Charlie Duckworth on a journey through the worlds of food, alcohol, and world culture, examining the strange things we do in our search for meaning through food and drink.

In Buddhist and Hindu lore, hungry ghosts are lost souls who stalk the earth seeking in vain to sate their swollen appetites. In the wheel of death and rebirth, the hungry ghosts occupy a lower realm than humans. We think that flatters us.

We are all hungry ghosts. These are the lengths that we go to.

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We are all hungry ghosts. These are the lengths that we go to.

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Don't Fear the Reaper | Eating the World's Hottest Chilli

Hungry Ghosts

56 minutes 3 seconds

2 years ago

Don't Fear the Reaper | Eating the World's Hottest Chilli

For this week's episode we travelled to America and ate the world's hottest chilli. So never let our commitment to stupid content be questioned.

The Carolina Reaper clocks in at around 2.2 million units on the Scoville scale, which measures the spiciness of chilli peppers – that's about ten times the heat of a Scotch bonnet. It's the creation of Smokin' Ed Currie, the mastermind behind Puckerbutt Pepper Co., who was kind enough to sit down with us for an interview in his shop in Fort Mill, South Carolina.

Ed talked us through how he came to produce the world's hottest peppers, the role that chillis have played in his recovery from addiction, and his plans for an even spicier future. And, of course, we couldn't leave without trying a Reaper for ourselves...

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