[Camera Man] Go ahead and put it in your mouth.

[攝影師] 來吧，把辣椒放到你嘴裡

Go!

開始！

[Narrator] Since the first time it was announced

[旁白] 自從第一次向公眾宣佈

to the public that we were growing these, there were

我們正在種植這些辣椒

literally thousands of YouTube videos of people eating

就有數以千計的 YouTube 影片顯示人們

Carolina Reapers all over the world.

在世界各地吃卡羅萊納死神辣椒

I get a kick out of most of them.

我對大部分的影片都很感興趣

I made a huge mistake!

我犯了一個大錯！

Though it can be unpleasant, it's not a dangerous thing

雖然吃起來很不舒服，但是吃超級辣的辣椒並不危險

Oh my God!

噢我的天啊！

It's only getting worse!

只會越來越糟

(coughing)

(咳嗽)

[Narrator] It's a chemical reaction your brain perceives

[旁白] 這是你大腦感知到的化學反應

as heat so you will stop doing it.

所以你會停止吃辣椒

I'm gonna lay down.

我要去躺一下

This sucks.

感覺糟透了

(uptempo modern classical music)

(快節奏的現代古典音樂)

I'm “Smokin'” Ed Currie.

我是「Smokin」Ed Currie

I created the Carolina Reaper.

我創造了卡羅萊納死神辣椒

I got into breeding peppers in college and just really

我在大學時開始種植辣椒

was interested in getting hotter and hotter peppers once I tried them.

一旦嘗試過後，我就對種植更辣的辣椒很感興趣

Guinness awarded me the world record for the hottest pepper in November of 2013.

金氏世界紀錄頒給我在 2013 年十一月最辣辣椒的世界紀錄

To breed these things, I crossed a ghost pepper

為了培育這些辣椒，我用魔鬼辣椒

with a habanero, and what came out was this evil

和哈瓦那辣椒雜交繁殖，結果出來的是一種外表邪惡

looking pepper that had warts all over it,

上面有疣的辣椒

blisters they call them.

他們稱為水泡

And the first time I tasted it, it knocked me to my knees.

我第一次嚐完這種辣椒，根本無法站穩

(uptempo flamenco guitar)

(快節奏的佛朗明哥吉他)

We get our peppers tested regularly at Winthrop University by doctor Calloway in the chemistry lab.

我們在溫思羅普大學用 Calloway 醫生的化學實驗室定期檢驗辣椒

All peppers are measured by Scoville heat units,

所有辣椒都是由史高維爾指標來測量的

which tell you how hot the pepper is.

告訴你辣椒有多辣

Bell peppers have zero Scoville heat units.

甜椒有零個史高維爾指標

Jalapeño is about 5,000, a Serrano 20,000,

墨西哥辣椒大約 5,000，塞拉諾辣椒 20,000

red habaneros 200,000, ghost peppers 600,000,

哈瓦那辣椒 200,000，魔鬼辣椒 600,000

then you get to the Carolina Reaper,

然後你去測卡羅萊納死神辣椒

which is 1,569,000 heat units, the hottest thing in the world.

得到 1,569,000 的指標，全世界最辣的辣椒

(playful string music)

(俏皮的弦樂)

When you eat the Carolina Reaper, the first sensation

當你吃下卡羅萊納死神辣椒，你得到的第一個感覺

you get is sweet, and then all of a sudden the heat

是甜的，然後突然開始發熱

starts going, it's like burning, burning, burning!

就像火在燃燒、燃燒、燃燒！

Then the physiological stuff starts.

然後開始有生理反應

Your eyes will bloodshot, they just start

你的眼睛會佈滿血絲

tearing up and watering, the skin flushes,

眼裡會含淚開始哭泣，皮膚潮紅

you start breathing hard, your metabolism

你開始呼吸困難，你的新陳代謝

starts raising up.

開始上升

Some people say it's like eating molten lava.

有些人說這就像吃熔岩

Others will say it's like licking the sun.

其他人會說這就像舔太陽

To me, it's like eating a charcoal briquette

對我來說，這就像吃了一個炭塊

and no matter what you do you cannot get that burn

不管你做什麼都不能讓這種燃燒的感覺

out of the back of your mouth.

離開你的嘴巴

I mean it's crazy.

我是說這很瘋狂

A lot of what I do is creative expression.

我做的很多事情都是創造性的表達

You look for traits in one pepper, and you look

你在一個辣椒身上尋找特質

for traits in another and you try to combine them

又在另一個辣椒身上看到特色，然後你試著把這兩種辣椒

and keep both those traits.

結合起來，同時保持這些特質

There are other breeders who are trying to break our record,

還有其他育種家試圖打破我們的記錄

but, uh, we've been holding unreleased peppers in our back pocket

但是，呃，我們在後面的口袋裡藏著未發行的辣椒

that are twice as hot or more than the Carolina Reaper

比卡羅萊納死神辣椒辣上兩倍

that we could submit to Guinness at any time.

我們隨時可以交給金氏世界紀錄

My perception of what the limits are, of how hot

對於能培育辣椒的辣度限制

you can breed a pepper has changed as the science

我的看法隨著科學的進步

has progressed over the years.

而發生了變化

Just tell me something can't be done, I'm gonna figure

如果你告訴我有些事就是辦不到，我會

out a way to do it.

想出辦法做到