Naga Viper is the hottest chili pepper in the world

People are calling this the paint-peeling pepper.

It's the Naga Viper, and it's a cross between three of the hottest exiting varieties, and now, it is the hottest chili in the world.

Yes, we hear that it's so hot that it can strip paint, we also learned that weapons experts are thinking about using the chili in a "spice bomb" to damage the enemy.

This new species was created by Gerald Fowler, who runs the Chili Pepper Company in Cumbria England.

Gerald says,"It numbs your tongue, then burns all the way down."  "It can last an hour, and you just don't want to talk to anyone or do anything."

The  Naga Viper has set a world-record on the Scoville scale.

The Naga Viper measures a scorching 1,359,000, hotter than the Indian Bhut Jolokia, which measures at 1,001,304.

Fowler makes customers sign an agreement they're "of sound body and mind" before sampling a Naga Viper-based curry.

"It's a marvelous endorphin rush," he said. "It makes you feel great."

The two pepper-heads in the video below say they wished they had never done this, suffering all day after eating these Naga Viper chilli’s.

But they later said the flavor of the pepper itself is amazing, it has both a fruity and savory taste. Similar to the Naga but not quite the same, the heat is something else entirely, Watch the video!