Jack is the holder of several other records, with one being the fastest time to drink a bottle of hot sauce at 8.56 seconds and the other being the fastest time to drink 1 litre (about a quarter gallon) of tomato sauce at 1 minute and 5.56 seconds.Įarlier this year, he also broke the world record for the longest habanero pepper kiss after both he and his wife ate a habanero pepper and kissed for 15 minutes and 6.5 seconds. Peppers used: Carolina Reaper, scorpion, ghost.
It feels like someone is squeezing and twisting my guts … Your mind is telling you to stop but you have to convince yourself to keep pushing through,” he said. This is mainly because making sauces with 100 your own ingredients leads to small batches, not because these products are of the only-100-bottles-made-then-gone-forever nature. The second one doesn’t seem as bad, but each one after that gets hotter and hotter as the peppers touch new places in your mouth.”ĭespite building a spice tolerance over the last two decades, Jack said he still feels discomfort in his stomach. “The initial shock of spiciness is intense. Speaking about his experiences to Guinness World Records, Jack said: “The first pepper is the worst.” Photograph: The Oxfordshire Chilli Garden/Alamy The Carolina Reaper, currently the world’s hottest chilli.