Being credited with creating the world’s next hottest pepper is a big deal and comes with fame in the chile community. Many growers are continually working on creating the next world record holder.

If you have official documents from a lab that has tested your latest hybrid pepper at a higher Scoville ranking than any of the peppers below, please feel free to send me the lab results and I will update the list.

There are so many, maybe too many, super-hot hybrids so official testing results are the only way to make sure. Scoville testing of any pepper is actually fairly easy and inexpensive.

Want to know how to get your peppers tested? Check out how easy it is here.

NOTE ABOUT PEPPER X AND DRAGON’S BREATH: In the past year, there have been a couple peppers claiming to be the newest “Hottest Pepper in the World”. You may have heard talk of this Dragon’s Breath pepper. Or heard of Pepper X. Problem is, these new claims to the ‘Hottest Pepper in the World” have yet to back it up.

There have been no official lab tests to prove any pepper out there has topped the Carolina Reaper.

For the time being, the following are currently the hottest peppers in the world.