Watch 'Hot Ones' host Sean Evans taste test the new world's hottest pepper

This looks...painful.
By Sam Haysom  on 
A man standing in a dark room closes his eyes in apparent discomfort.
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We've watched Hot Ones host Sean Evans calmly carrying out interviews while chomping through some incredibly spicy wings, but even he looks like he's suffering in the clip above.

Joined by pepper creator Ed Currie, whose new creation Pepper X now holds the record for world's hottest pepper, Evans and friends Chili Klaus and Noah Chaimberg taste-tested the monstrous vegetable.

It comes with an impressively ridiculous 2,693,000 rating on the Scoville scale, and you can feel every one of those Scovilles when you watch Sean's genuinely pained expression.

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.


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