I prefer my hot to have a little flavor and less pain and trouble later, so no, it’s a pass. Obviously, if you do eat one or participate in a challenge, any consequences are all yours.
You might to have a mod fix your title. Carolina and California are different things.
I was able to fix it, but thank you for the heads-up!
Hell no. I planted ghost peppers in my garden a while back, thinking that they were one of those extremely hot, but not crazy hot, peppers, just a bit hotter than Scotch Bonnet … like, not as bad as Jolokia pepper.
Big mistake. First, “ghost pepper” IS Jolokia - two names for the same thing. Second, I made a spicy Indonesian stew that called for something like 6 chili peppers. Knowing that ghost peppers were much hotter than a “normal” chili, I only used one, substituting sweet pepper for the other five.
Well, the stew was inedibly hot. I had to make it three more times with no heat, and mix it with the first batch, to achieve an edibly spicy dish. And I love really spicy food.
So, no to the pepper that is 3x as hot as a Carolina Reaper. I do NOT want to know about it!
I like stuff a lot hotter than most people but HELL NO.
“I was feeling the heat for three-and-a-half hours. Then the cramps came,” said Currie, one of only five people so far to eat a entire Pepper X. “Those cramps are horrible. I was laid out flat on a marble wall for approximately an hour in the rain, groaning in pain.”
Uh… I’m ok to skip this one.
What @jnglmassiv said. If Mr. “Hottest peppers in the world” hurt himself with it, I sure don’t need to.
I am familiar with this effect, from lesser peppers.
You are not supposed to eat an entire pepper at once (unless you want to! — but you will need a strong stomach and tolerance for pain)
The ultimate question is, is it tasty?
I like stuff a lot less hot than most people, yet still, HELL NO.
Not a whole one. A piece, of course. I’ve done a whole Trinidad Scorpion from my garden when that was the hottest in the world, and I regretted it for a couple of hours. Not making that mistake again. (I could do whole habaneros and Scotch bonnets, but once you go up a level from that, it’s not worth it for me to eat all at once.)
(And that Paqui challenge chip? I bought one last year, and tasted a pinky nail’s worth and that was enough for me to say, not worth the pain and suffering that is to come if I eat the whole chip. Maybe I’m just getting old, but, good lord that thing is hot. The little piece I ate was almost at the top of my heat tolerance.)
ETA: Those cramps and being completely laid out mentioned above–that’s exactly what happened to me with the Trinidad Scorpion. Of course, it didn’t help that I ate it in the morning on an empty stomach, but I was so excited to try it! 
Let’s see - I won’t eat jalapeños because they’re too hot. So that’s a big NO.
This is very on subject.
I’m a huge Hot Ones fan. I love Chili Klaus. On the show I’m good with the 4-5 level no higher. I would not put myself through that.
Pickled jalapeños aren’t that hot. Much less than fresh. On nachos I can eat a bunch. Fresh jalapeños are around 8,000 SHU. I find them too painful to eat alone and I use them sparingly. I’ll chop up one for my big pot of chili.
Pepper X is 2,693,000 SHU.
Thanks. I might try pickled jalapenos some time.
Those are the ubiquitous nacho rings.
Is he secretly Speed Pepper’s brother?
Never.
Excessively hot peppers blow out my taste buds. I want to taste my food, not suffer from it.
Covid did more to my tastebuds than a pepper ever could but I don’t want to be in intense pain.
Man, that’s a bummer. Have you noticed any improvement? I knew a few people who had the taste problem with Covid, but it gradually returned for both of them. Good luck!
Supposedly they give you a fun endorphin rush.
I used to like hot food a lot. There was a restaurant in town that had an appetizer of a single habanero popper (seeds removed) that I loved.
Sadly my system won’t even tolerate eating the seeds from a banana pepper anymore. One of those would probably take me out for days.