"The good thing about Reapers is the really bad heat doesn’t kick in for about 30 seconds or so," said Gregory. With a mouth ablaze with peppery fire, Gregory described the experience as similar to trying to eat charcoal as quickly as possible. ![]() "But it's the one part of the job that's the most entertaining for everybody else." "This is the one part of the job that I hate," said Gregory. "He can definitely put away the peppers a decent competitor for sure." - Mitch Donnellyīetween bouts of belching, sweating and hurling, Gregory once again proved that no amount of spiciness is too much for his tastebuds to bear. So, the chilli eating champs went head-to-head, quickly powering through the peppers one by one to see who could push through the pain and walk away with the record. Mitch Donnelly (USA), who is head football coach and a biology teacher at Westview High School, works with Gregory and once won a chilli eating competition that Gregory organized at a hot sauce festival. While Gregory attempted each of his other records solo, this time there was an added challenge of trying to outperform a Reaper-loving rival. "It’s the passion of pain, I guess," said Gregory. Advertisementsīut why would anyone voluntarily chow down on so many sizzling chilli peppers? Advertisements The devilish pepper clocks in at a hellish 1,641,183 Scoville Heat Units-a method of quantifying a substance’s 'spiciness', through determining the concentration of the chemical compounds responsible for the sensation.Īs well as being a keen chilli eater, Gregory owns a hot sauce company and cultivates his own chillies on his farm. ![]() Grown by Ed Currie of the PuckerButt Pepper Company (USA), the Carolina Reaper far outranks familiar spicy peppers like the jalapeño and ghost peppers. The Carolina Reaper holds the record title for being the hottest chilli pepper ever. Some like it hot, but Gregory is known for taking his spicy speed-eating to the extreme, scarfing down some seriously fiery chillies.
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