As always, we’ve included lots of flavor with fire.” “The heat trend only keeps growing and getting hotter. “Since coming out with our Ghost Pepper salsa in 2012 to great fanfare, fans have constantly asked for something much hotter, more intense,” says Renfro.

How hot is a Carolina Reaper pepper? It measures 1.5 million SHUs (Scoville Heat Units) the heat of a jalapeno pepper measures around 30,000 SHUs. “Later, I hung out with him at ZestFest and we kept up over the years,” Renfro says. Then the two got to know each other at a Chile Pepper Institute Advisory Council meeting in Las Cruces, N.M. This record may continue to be broken but the flavor and bouquet of Carolina Reaper, not to mention the heat, have continued to grow in popularity.ĭescribing their partnership as “partners in pain,” Doug Renfro, president of Renfro Foods, says he knew of Currie’s reputation and product. Renfro’s Carolina Reaper Salsa is a collaboration with Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Company in Fort Mill, S.C., home to Smokin’ Ed’s Carolina Reaper, which at the time it was bred in 2013, held the Guinness World Record for hottest pepper. It will again be showcased at the 2019 Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, Jan. The company’s 34 th and hottest product to date, was introduced at the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York in June to great excitement. Renfro Foods has answered the clarion call for more intense heat with its new Mrs.

Some carolina reaper sauce