Creeping out of my abode, I swiftly silently slither into the bathroom, ready for a peaceful bowel movement in the wee hours of the morning. Which hot sauce you choose is very dependent on the kind of experience you want and how you plan to use it. Each bottle contains up to 70% of the chilli included, which will make you teary-eyed just studying the ingredients label, as these bad boys are all Champions League qualifiers when it comes to the Scoville chart premier league!

Johnson admits that even he is intimidated by the extracts. And yet YouTube is filled with videos by amateurs and experienced chilli eaters all willing to feed an audience’s sado-masochistic taste for pain. A Middlesbrough pizzeria is offering customers the chance to sample one of the hottest sauces on the planet with their food - but you'll have to sign a disclaimer first. That they do with the inclusion of two of the hottest chilies in the world: Carolina Reaper (1.4 million to 2.2 million Scoville heat units) and Trinidad Moruga Scorpion (1.2 million to 2 million SHU.) To put that in perspective, a common jalapeño pepper averages around 5,250 SHU total. The minute you open the bottle, you get a delicious sweet smell. It’s that mix of carrots, tomato paste, apple cider vinegar, and sugar (along with the fruitiness of those Chinense chilies) that are front and center with the aroma. Below are some of the various thing you’ll need to take into account before plumping for a peppery condiment: Type of PepperThe first time I tested the hot sauce, it was 3 days ago on a roast beef sandwich I made myself for lunch. Being the hot sauce freak that I am, and a daring one at that, I put a healthy splash on, about a tablespoons worth. Holding the sandwich inches away from my face, I gave up all doubt and dove in, taking a crunchy bite. The sauce tasted smoky at first, then disappointing as it turned out to have the same bitter carrot flavour as other spicier hot sauces. Whilst the taste of it was quite bad, the heat was amazing, hotter than a raw fresh ghost pepper, enough to bring me to tears and scorch my whole mouth. The blaze lasted about 10 minutes after the food was eaten, a little longer than it took me to clean up after myself. Elijah’s Xtreme Regret goes great with wings, in chili, and on grilled meats. I tried it as an addition to my BBQ sauce, and just a few drops added plenty of spiciness to a perviously mild sauce. I also added a few drops onto a BBQ sandwich, and the fruity heat really was a standout. I even got that touch of garlic from just those few drops.

That said because the extract it uses is significantly spicier even than most readily available hot sauce extracts, it’s likely that Regret is the hottest hot sauce on the market. Why don’t we know how hot the hottest hot sauces are? First time I did it, it smelled like pain and regret,” he says. “The second time I did it, it smelled like misery and trauma.

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am. I awaken. The house is dead quiet. My sisters sleep, the dog slumbers. Even the familiar mechanical hum of the house seems to have been hushed for this moment. I really have to shit. There are innumerable types of challenges and products involved, sometimes with increasingly spicy raw pods, others with super-hot gourmet chocolate or gummy bears or tortilla chips, or a combination of all of the above. The most difficult has to be the extract challenges, where competitors eat tubes or chug bottles of extra-high concentrations of already overly hot peppers.