ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — There are super-hot chile varieties. And then there’s the sweat-inducing, tear-generating, mouth-on-fire Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. With a name like that, it’s not surprising that ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — There are super-hot chile varieties. And then there's the sweat-inducing, tear-generating, mouth-on-fire Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. With a name like that, it's not surprising ...

Two years ago, Jim Duffy’s Trinidad Moruga Scorpion was declared the world’s hottest chile, about 250 times hotter than a jalapeño. In the chilehead community, this red pepper was a sensation. Now, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- There are super-hot chile varieties. And then there's the sweat-inducing, tear-generating, mouth-on-fire Trinidad Moruga Scorpion. With a name like that, it's not surprising ...

With the recent crowning of Pepper X as the new Guinness World Record holder for hottest chili pepper, here's a look into just how the spiciness of a pepper is calculated — and some examples of very ...

After trying Ghost Scorpion Lager, Micah Siegmund lost the capacity for speech and coherent thought. The beer - made with two of the hottest peppers in the world, Trinidad Moruga Scorpion and ghost ...

There’s something unsettling about 10^32 Kelvin. The deep, red-orange body of the hot sauce looks almost like Frank’s Red Hot, but menacing flecks of red, brown and yellow set it apart from your ...

Until recently, the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion was known as the world’s hottest chile pepper. But according to the Guinness Book of World Records last month, it’s now the Carolina Reaper grown by Ed ...

The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion has been named the hottest pepper on the planet by New Mexico State University’s Chile Pepper Institute, according to the Associated Press. The cherry-tomato-sized pepper ...