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.

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.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. Dave's Gourmet Temporary Insanity Sauce has all the flavor of Dave’s Original Insanity with less heat. Finally, there’s sauce for when you only want to get a little crazy in the kitchen. Add to stews, burgers, burritos, and pizza, or any food that needs an insane boost. As with all super hot sauces, this sauce is best enjoyed one drop at a time! 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. 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.

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. 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. As the name implies, Dave’s Insanity is meant to be be an extremely hot sauce, so in that way the balance is spot on. Heat is the defining factor of the eating experience. While there is flavor here, because of the amount you’d typically use Dave’s Insanity doesn’t compete with the flavor profile of your food. There is no sneaky aftertaste (beyond that touch of garlic). It’s just straight-up hot with a good blend of tomato freshness, pepperiness, and a touch of pungency from garlic. Usability: As seen on Hot Ones, Season 1! Enjoy the original hottest sauce in the universe and Dave’s favorite food enhancer. Dave’s breakthrough blend of peppers and spices launched the super hot market and forever changed the face of fiery foods. It's the only sauce ever banned from the National Fiery Food Show. Add an insane boost, one drop at a time, to your stews, burgers, burritos, and more. As a result, new hot sauce brands have entered the game, bringing a variety of flavors and heat levels to satisfy everyone. Some like it mild and tangy, others like it scorching hot beyond belief.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 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. 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. 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.

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.

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Another household staple (at least in our house) is Tabasco Brand hot sauce. They make a variety of new flavors, branching out from their original recipe, but the original is truly special. Now this is how you do a super-spicy hot sauce. The Last Dab Triple X hot sauce is meant to be used, not just to be a novelty. The strong cumin-forward flavor is addictive, and can actually be paired well with foods. We have tasted it many times, and we now have more than one bottle in our current inventory. 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