Ingredients: Hot peppers, tomato paste, hot pepper extract, salt, cane vinegar, onions, xanthan gum, garlic, citric acid, spices The Gold Edition hot sauce comes with a replica shell, just for good measure. This sauce actually uses Mad Dog’s own Plutonium No.9 Extract (more on this later…) to pump additional heat into the sauce. As stated before, we’re not a fan of extract hot sauces. Spicy Food News: Paqui Haunted Ghost Pepper Chips Are Still Available, Tabasco Teams up with Banza, and More

Debuting on season 11 of Hot Ones, the Widow Maker took the number 9 spot on the spicy wing lineup. This means it is undoubtedly spicy to the everyday person, but it only marks the halfway point on our hot sauce Scoville scale list. Mad Dog is a spicy food phenomenon. Hailing from Massachusetts, David Ashley started creating his sauces and culinary horrors in 1991. You know you’re dealing with fiercely spicy food when the company name alludes to a firearm (357 magnum). Dingo Sauce Co. is based in Western Australia and makes a variety of hot sauces. The aptly named ‘Widow Maker’ hot sauce uses a blend of 6 different varieties of superhot peppers as the first ingredient. This means serious heat. Capsicum chinense peppers have a very aromatic flavor with a very high to extremely high pungency. They are therefore also suitable for the production of extremely hot chili sauces and extracts. So it is not surprising that the Scoville scale is led by Blair’s 16 million reserve. The 16 million in the name stands for 16 million Scoville Heat Units. It is not a sauce, but Pure Capsaicin crystals.

Cholula is one of our favorite grocery store hot sauces for everyday use. The flavor is unlike anything else we have tried and the heat level is respectable. It is also affordable and has a rich history as part of a tequila chaser in Mexico.

Dave’s Insanity Sauce first appeared in 1993 and it is made by Dave’s Gourmet. That company makes hot sauces that range from relatively mild to even hotter than the insanity sauce (Total Insanity Sauce and Carolina Reaper Hot Sauce), and they also make pasta sauce, seasonings, and even oats(huh . . . ?). I’ve tried several of the Dave’s hot sauces, all of which are good, but I usually find myself returning to the original Insanity Sauce. The hot sauce business is booming. With the popular YouTube series Hot Ones and various hot sauce challenges sweeping across the internet, more people are using hot sauce than ever before. The sauces we’ve decided to rank cover the entire range of spiciness. From common diner hot sauces like tabasco all the way to Mad Dog 357 pure extract. Well-hated in the hot sauce community for years and years, Da Bomb is notorious for its aggressive heat. Yes, we’ve tried it, and it is just as bad-tasting and brutally spicy as all the unfortunate Hot One’s guests make it seem.We don’t recommend that you dare your friends (or enemies) into sampling some of the hottest Scoville rated, hot sauces. The burn can actually hurt your insides. If you insist, do have blue cheese or ranch dressing or even a glass of milk nearby. Drinking these can help to ease the burning sensations. Keep handy a box of tissues for wiping tears!

As things heat up, the brands become less well-known. However, Dawson’s creates some of the most delectable hot sauces out there, and their ‘Original’ sauce is among them. We find some of the best sauces are simple, and this one is no exception.Dave was probably insane while creating this because it’s rated at 180,000 Scoville units, compared with 2,500-5,000 for Tabasco sauce. The sauce is equal in heat to a common orange habanero, so let that sink in. This is like just taking a big ole bite from a hab. Habaneros range on average about 42 times hotter than a jalapeño pepper. This is big bite here. We’ve tried most of these hot sauce, but we haven’t been daring (or stupid?) enough to put pure capsaicin on our tongues. With that all said, let’s get started through the hot sauce Scoville scale ranks! 1. Frank’s RedHot Sauce – 450 SHUs In this article, we’ll rank some of the most popular hot sauces on the Scoville scale from mild to insanely hot. And now we’ve entered ‘are you kidding me?’ territory. This is only loosely described as a hot sauce since the ingredients consist of pepper extract, an emulsifier, and vinegar. Satan’s Blood is not intended to be used to enhance the flavor of food. The only goal was to make food fiery hot. Food Banks across America are running low during the current crisis and need your help. Please donate today to help those in need. Recent Posts