Every Super-Hot Pepper Over 1 Million SHU, Ranked
The super-hot club: peppers that break one million Scoville units, ranked by heat. Handle these with gloves and respect.
13 peppers · Peppers at or above 1,000,000 minimum SHU, ranked by maximum SHU.
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Apollo pepper is a reported Ed Currie/PuckerButt superhot tied to Carolina Reaper and Pepper X breeding. Treat the 2,500,000-3,000,000 SHU range as a…
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Pepper X is the current Guinness World Records hottest chilli pepper, with an official average of 2,693,000 SHU from Winthrop University testing. Ed…
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Dragon's Breath is a British-bred super-hot measured between 2,480,000 and 2,500,000 SHU, roughly 500 times hotter than a jalapeño and nearly ten…
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The Carolina Reaper is Ed Currie's South Carolina-bred C. chinense cultivar and the former Guinness hottest chilli. Guinness certified a 1,569,300…
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The Komodo Dragon is a British-bred super-hot clocking 1,400,000-2,200,000 SHU, roughly 440 times hotter than a jalapeño and firmly in the same…
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The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion registers between 1,200,000 and 2,009,231 SHU, making it one of the most formidable peppers ever tested. Native to the…
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Chocolate Bhutlah is a brown Capsicum chinense superhot commonly sold at 1,000,000-2,000,000 SHU. Refining Fire Chiles traces the Bhutlah parent line…
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7 Pot Katie is a UK-bred Capsicum chinense pepper that seed sellers place at 1,500,000 to 1,590,000 SHU. That span is useful for identifying it as a…
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Most people assume the Naga Morich is just a ghost pepper variant. It isn't. This C. chinense from the Bangladesh-India border region registers…
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7 Pot Brain Strain is a red, deeply wrinkled Capsicum chinense superhot selected from Trinidad 7 Pot seed lines, with a reported 1,000,000 to…
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The 7 Pot Barrackpore is a Trinidadian super-hot commonly listed around 1,000,000-1,300,000 SHU - roughly 125-520 times hotter than a jalapeno…
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The Infinity Chili briefly held the world record for hottest pepper in 2011, clocking in at 1,067,286 SHU. Bred in England by Nick Woods, this C…
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Jay's Peach Ghost Scorpion is a C. chinense hybrid bred in the USA, crossing ghost pepper and Trinidad Scorpion genetics into a pale peach-colored…
How we rank: Peppers at or above 1,000,000 minimum SHU, ranked by maximum SHU. Scoville figures come from our pepper database, measured by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) where available. Individual pods vary with growing conditions, so ranges matter more than single numbers.