FIRST WE FEAST participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means FIRST WE FEAST gets paid commissions on purchases made through our links to retailer sites. The sauce delivers real flavor through the heat thanks to a unique blend of mustard, ginger root, coriander and turmeric. 10 on Hot Ones was a great starting point because it let us target a specific heat profile that would lull the guests into a sense of calm before unleashing the full heat of Pepper X,” said Heatonist founder Noah Chaimberg. Buy it here. Yes, of course, that lofty 6 million is hit via some extract, but the bottle also is 73% comprised of flavorful chocolate habaneros, an earthy and smoky pepper that looks like a chocolate candy on a stem (and packs 425,000–577,000 Scovilles in and of itself). (And Henry’s classy, understated labels won’t give you a seizure either.) (If anything, many folks get a kerosene or metallic note from extract, due to the solvents used in the extraction process). It should be no surprise, then, that we're in the middle of a Scoville Scale arms race—a chile pepper blitzkrieg that can feel more like a death march than a road to enlightenment, as companies vying to outmaneuver their competitors keep pushing the heat levels to the extreme outer-reaches. This so-called “hi-energy heart-pounder” sends a part of its proceeds to women’s health organizations. He might be right, as Heavenly Heat actually makes you agree to a product waiver before purchasing this product! Henry's Hot Sauce Carolina Reaper. Buy it here. So what’s the point of a hot sauce if we’re not getting some flavor with the burn? Our editorial content is not influenced by any commissions we receive. The 10 Hottest Hot Sauces You Can Buy Now. UPDATE: The first batch of The Last Dab is sold out but a new batch will release on Heatonist.com at 11am on Thursday, September 21, and pre-orders will be available. Our editorial content is not influenced by any commissions we receive. Indeed, almost all of those so-called sauces that sky past one-million Scoville units have to use extracts to pad those numbers. Below, are the hottest hot sauces—in descending order—that aren’t 100% extract, and ones that you can actually purchase today. “Smokin’” Ed Currie did such a thing—breeding his Carolina Reaper® in his Rock Hill, South Carolina greenhouse. "A 10-million Scoville sauce would be made from only Oleoresin Capsicum, an extract from chiles that distills their pure heat," Noah Chaimberg tells me. But while these "warnings" only seem to encourage more and more YouTube dares, hot-sauce wasn’t always a game of one-upmanship. CaJohns Black Mamba 6 Get Bitten. (For perspective, a humble jalapeño is around 10,000 Scoville units.) Scoville units: 6 million
It’s a blend of habaneros, capsicum extract, tomato paste, honey mustard, tropical fruits like papaya and pineapple, and ginger—as well as caffeine and ginseng. Check out ComplexCon, a festival and exhibition on Nov. 5-6, 2016 in Long Beach, Calif., featuring performances, panels, and more. !” (yes, all caps, obvi), this offering is made with ghost, habanero, and a good 66.6% Trinidad scorpion peppers, around 16 of those suckers per bottle. (For perspective, a humble jalapeño is around 10,000 Scoville units.) The man behind Crazy Uncle Jester's is actually named Jeffrey E. “Black Bull” Stevenson, a member of The Shawnee Nation who is the purveyor of this certified Native American-owned Minority Business Enterprise. Note: if you go to Henry's website you'll see Carolina Reaper (and all their other sauces) listed as "limited edition." For ticket info, click here. Enjoy the crunch! Like the World’s Greatest Dad mug, the self-proclaimed “Hottest Sauce in the Universe” isn’t always accurate for the most part. Scoville units: ~1.2 million
James “Wreck” Beck—the “Hot Sauce Boss” of iBurn in Houston, who once penned an extract misuse manifesto called “Stop Spicy Stupidity”—may be one of the few humans who has tried both this and Black Mamba 6, believing Meet Your Maker to be hotter. 2020 Complex Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. You Can Now Buy The Last Dab, the Hottest Sauce on Hot Ones. Not everyone considers those things “sauces” though, as they can only occur courtesy of extracts, the HGH of the spice world. As more product enters the market, one way to differentiate yourself from the rest of the pack is by ratcheting up the, sometimes hover in the seven- or eight-digit range. If you're a fan of Hot Ones and have wondered how you'd fair against the show's hottest sauce, The Last Dab, now's your time to find out. Click here to buy The Last Dab! Its punch comes from the diabolical “Pepper X,” developed by Ed Currie almost a decade ago, with The Last Dab being its first use in a production sauce. Pepper X is twice as hot as Smokin Ed’s Carolina Reaper, the current Guinness World Record holder for “The Hottest Pepper in the World.”, "Knowing that the sauce was going to be the new No. Unlike a lot of these other hot sauces that seem to come from the mind of a slightly insane dude working from his kitchen, Henry’s Hot Sauce is courtesy of an honest-to-god Virginia pepper farm. Scoville units: ~2.2 million
Peppers used: Habaneros. surprise, then, that we're in the middle of a. First hot sauce I've ever tried that made my face go half numb.” Buy it here. The race to pump out Scoville-packed sauces will leave even the best of us wimpering. Peppers used: Ghost peppers. Bumblefoot’s Bumblef**ked. “It was also a lot of fun to play with the flavors and make a super-hot sauce that actually tastes great!”.