An American set a record by eating the 10 hottest peppers in the world in 33 seconds (6 photos + 1 video)

September 17, 2022 in San Diego (California, USA) chili eating tournament. The real professional Gregory won Foster. He managed to eat 10 Carolina Reaper peppers in record time 33.15 seconds. The Carolina Reaper is officially the world's hottest pepper. chili in the world.





This is Foster's new achievement. His last triumph happened nine months ago, when he also broke the record for the fastest eating a Carolina Reaper by eating three peppers in just 8.72 seconds. Grown by Ed Curry of the PuckerButt Pepper Company (USA), cultivar The Carolina Reaper is far superior to conventional hot peppers such as jalapeno and ghost pepper (Bhut Jolokia).

The Carolina Reaper has a hellish 1,641,183 points of heat the Scoville scale. This scale is used to compare the degree the pungency of various capsicums. Scoville scale units give an estimate quantitative content of capsaicin.



Gregory Foster not only loves chili peppers, but also owns a producing hot sauces and growing chili peppers on his farm.

But why would someone willingly eat so many hot chili peppers? By According to Gregory, the "passion of pain" also played a role and, importantly, competitive spirit. This tournament brought together two eating giants chili - himself and Mitch Donnelly, football coach and biology teacher in Westview High School. Mitch works with Gregory and once won chili eating contest that Gregory organized at the festival hot sauce.

So the two champions came face to face, quickly eating pepper one by one to see which one of them is stronger and leaves with record.

"Gregory is definitely a worthy competitor," said Mitch Donnelly.

It was hard, it hurt, with Gregory the sweat flowed like hail, but he once proved that his taste buds are able to cope with any degree of bitterness.

“This is the part of the job that I hate,” the winner admitted. But that's the part of the job that's most interesting to everyone else."





Gregory said that really strong heat in the mouth starts about 30 seconds after chewing Carolina pepper Reaper, so the main thing is to have time to shove pepper into yourself as much as possible and faster to win. The mouth begins to blaze with fire after competition, then he drinks water, milk, eats ice cream and tries recover.

The taste of this pepper, according to Gregory, is fruity, the first bite sweet, but then it turns into something more like molten lava. And it hurts a lot.



Gregory says that the main thing for a champion is to always have milk and ice cream on hand.

Chili peppers contain a substance called capsaicin, which causes burning taste buds. When capsaicin binds to sensory receptors in the mouth, neural sensors that detect heat, send a message directly to the brain: "Fire!" Dairy products, however, contain casein, which binds to spicy capsaicin oil, and then washes it out.

This little secret makes eating chili much easier.



Gregory Foster, in addition to the already mentioned records, also has the title third record holder for speed eating three Bhut ghost peppers Jolokia. His time is 7.47 seconds.

Ghost peppers are said to be 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce. It has 1,041,427 heat units on the Scoville scale.



Who knows what kind of chili pepper this person has next? Maybe, pepper "Dragon's Breath", which unofficially showed more than 2.4 million hotness units on the Scoville scale. If these data are correct, then this pepper is the hottest chili in the world, and then Gregory just gotta taste it.