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Beyonc é isn't the only one who keeps hot sauce in her bag! For those of us with tastebuds that can handle the spiciest of spice , having our own hot sauce on hand is a must. After all, that Tabasco at the diner just isn't gonna cut it. Not if you're used to the heat of chili peppers! Related: 44 Great Green Chile Recipes to Make That Bring the Heat The world's hottest hot sauces are definitely not for the faint of heart, but you'll never know your tolerance level unless you try the hottest hot sauces of all time.
Where does your tolerance fall on the Scoville scale? If you're up on your hot sauces, then you know the Scoville scale is a unit of measurement that ranks the heat of chili peppers and, therefore, hot sauce. Scoville heat units (SHUs) are determined by the concentration of a pepper's capsaicinoids—mainly capsaicin, which is the active component in peppers that makes them spicy AF. Still feeling saucy? Grab a glass of milk.
You're gonna need it! If you think you can handle the spiciest hot sauces, we double-dare you to try the top 20 world's hottest hot sauces —listed from hottest to least hot. Parade aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission.
Related: What is Sriracha Sauce and How Spicy Is It? Meet the Hottest Hot Sauces in the World 1. Pure Evil Chilly Chile's Scoville Rating: 13 million SHUs Crashing the party at 13 million SHUs, Pure Evil is the guest that no one will ever forget! (For good or bad. Ok, who are we kidding—probably bad.
) Note that this is not actually a sauce, per se; it's a bottle of clear, flavorless drops that will burn your insides from here to kingdom come. The flavorless aspect means that it won't alter the flavor of the food you're spicing up. The question, however, is whether you'll be able to taste anything at all once you ingest a drop of this hellfire in a bottle.
2. Regret Extreme Amazon Scoville Rating: 12 million SHUs Hot behind Pure Evil's heels comes Regret Extreme from Wiltshire Chilli Farm. Don't let the benign-sounding blend of garlic, herbs, tomato, lime and a dash of bourbon fool you.
At 12 million SHUs, this hot sauce is not messing around. 3. Mad Dog 357 No.
9 Plutonium Amazon Scoville Rating: 9 million SHUs You might think you're safe now that we're under 10 million SHUs, but don't for a second let down your guard. With 9 million SHUs, Mad Dog 357 No. 9 Plutonium is like eating an actual piece of Dante's Inferno.
As in, it will burn, and you will be admitted to the hospital. Don't believe us? The actual hot sauce itself comes with a warning to sparingly add it to your food. Literally, it's not to be consumed directly and should be only added to food for taste in teeny-tiny drips and drabs.
It's that serious. 4. The Source Hot Sauce Carolina Sauce Company Scoville Rating: 7.
1 million SHUs Without any flaming-hot red, orange or yellow messaging on its label, you might mistakenly view The Source Hot Sauce as nonthreatening. In fact, you may even mistake it for soy sauce, TBH. But don't be fooled.
It may have nondescript packaging and a seemingly innocent bottle, but this hottie registers 7.1 million SHUs. Its makers even issue a similar warning to the one plastered on Mad Dog 357 No.
Plutonium: Do not consume directly. Only add to food as an additive, and do so very conservatively. 5.
The End Flatline Hot Sauce Pepper Palace Scoville Rating: 6 million SHUs As in, it'll feel like the end of your life when you're choking post-sauce. Ha, we're kidding (not really). With reaper peppers, The End Flatline Hot Sauce registers 6 million SHUs, making it PFH—pretty freakin' hot.
Those who are brave enough to try it can later show off their victory (or maybe stupidity, depending on how you look at it?) by flaunting the company's "I Survived Flatline" T-shirt . 6. Get Bitten Black Mamba 6 Hot Sauce Amazon Scoville Rating: 6 million SHUs Yikes! If you want your mouth to feel attacked from the inside out, like your lips have just been bitten by a deadly snake, then help yourself to a drop of Get Bitten.
After all, all it takes is a drop. With 6 million Scovilles, you'll be incapacitated for at least 15 minutes. Then— eventually —you'll be able to breathe again.
7. Bumblef**ked Hot Sauce Hot Sauce Scoville Rating: 6 million SHUs TBH, we would have loved to rank this one higher simply based on the hilarious name. While we give Bumblef**ked extra brownie points for brand name innovation, the truth is 6 million SHUs.
You'll get that with The End, Get Bitten, and Bumblef**ked, too. We're not saying they're all created equal, though. For a slightly less sharp taste, Bumblef**ked features other key flavor ingredients, including honey mustard, Caribbean fruits and ginseng—all of which make it a hair's breadth more bearable than some of the other 6 million SHU hot sauces.
8. Mad Dog 357 Pepper Extract Amazon Scoville Rating: 5 million SHUs Coming in at #6 is another Mad Dog specialty: Mad Dog 375 Pepper Extract. It may be sixth on the list, but don't get comfortable because a drop of this hot sauce is anything but.
A total of 5 million SHUs target every corner of your mouth, summoning the flames of Hell itself to make you choke, heave and, of course, enjoy a dash of 357 with your food. 9. Meet Your Maker Death Sauce iBurn Scoville Rating: 5 million SHUs Are you seeing a theme here with the names of the hottest hot sauces? Yeah, they all share the theme of death! Well, it's no wonder Meet Your Maker Death Sauce is called what it's called.
After all, it's got three different methods of ghost pepper in there (fresh, ground and extracted), and thanks to its 5 million SHUs, it (very appropriately) comes in a coffin container. May you rest in hot sauce peace. 10.
Mad Dog 44 Magnum Amazon Scoville Rating: 4 million SHUs We think it's safe to say they know what they're doing over at Magnum when it comes to hot sauces. After all, several of them have made the hottest of the hot sauce lists. The 44 Magnum packs the heat of a big-a** gun (hence the name) with 4 million SHUs.
Sure, it's got significantly less than hot sauce weapon of mass destruction—the Mad Dog 357 No. 9 Plutonium, but it's not to be underestimated. Four million SHUs is still pretty killer.
11. Z Nothing Beyond Extremely Hot Sauce Amazon Scoville Rating: 4 million SHUs IMHO, the product description has it right; "It won't kill you but you'll wish it did." We may be at #9 on the list, but we're still at that only-use-one-drop-at-a-time-as-a-food-additive level.
Yup—more than one drop and you'll be crying for Mommy. 12. Hottest Sauce in the Universe: The 2nd Dimension Pepper Palace Scoville Rating: 3.
5 million SHUs Just one look at this hot sauce and we are literally terrified. It's got 3.5 million SHUs and a bright-blue hot-wax seal that looks as menacing as it sounds.
Sure, the label's font may be reminiscent of Toy Story ' s Pizza Planet, but we're not buying it. This thing? A hospital trip in a bottle! 13. Reaper Squeezin's Amazon Scoville Rating: 2.
2 million SHUs The aptly named Reaper Squeeezin's comes from the hot sauce makers over at PuckerButt Pepper Company—also aptly named—and it features a whopping 92% Carolina reaper peppers. The formula's got some vinegar in there, too, but trust us, you won't taste the vinegar. Only the hotness that registers at 2.
2 million SHUs. Related: Al Roker's Spicy Chicken Wings 14. The Last Dab XXX Amazon Scoville Rating: 2 million SHUs If you've ever seen Hot Ones , then The Last Dab XXX might look familiar.
That's because it's a staple sauce on the show given that host Sean Evans always feeds it to his guest last. Why last? Because it burns at 2 million SHUs, that's why. 15.
Scorpion Stinger Hot Sauce Pepper Palace Scoville Rating: 2 million SHUs Pepper Palace is back at it again with another stinger. Literally. The Scorpion Stinger is named for its slow, multi-layered burn that quite honestly tastes like edible fire.
Related: 6 Ways With Sriracha 16. Smack My Ass and Call Me Sally Garlic Shoppe Scoville Rating: 1.5 million SHUs Um, we'll let the label (and the sauce's 1.
5 million SHUs) speak for itself. 17. Hydra 7-Pot Primo Amazon Scoville Rating: 1.
5 million SHUs Also with 1.5 million SHUs is the Hydra 7-Pot Primo by CaJohn's. The Hydra 7-Pot Primo only uses one chile—the 7-pot primo, obviously—but one taste, and you'd never know it.
Like 1.5 million daggers targeting your tastebuds at once, this one still is for expert-level hot sauce lovers only. 18.
Reapercussion United Sauces Scoville Rating: 1.5 million SHUs From Heartbreaking Dawn's Reapercussion is 1.5 million SHUs in the form of pure 7-pot primo peppers.
For solidarity, Heartbreaking Dawn added Trinidadian scorpion peppers and a bit of garlic, too. But the garlic (and lime, agave and apple cider vinegar also in the formula) do very little to hide the fact that Reapercussion features two of the world's hottest peppers. Whatever you do, don't add this directly to your tongue.
Mix it (sparingly) into recipes to avoid a severe meltdown. 19. Blair's Ultra Death Sauce Amazon Scoville Rating: 1 million SHUs Between the name (Death Sauce) and its label (um, there's a skeleton on the front?), it's no wonder Blair's is one of the hottest hot sauces ever made.
It's got 1 million SHUs, and in this formula, cayenne, serrano, habanero and hot Jolokia peppers do the brunt of the work. 20. CaJohn's Magma Hot Sauce Amazon Scoville Rating: 1 million SHUs Its label looks slightly more innocent than some of the other more menacing hot sauce labels on this list (after all, it looks like a lava lamp), but it's still damn hot.
CaJohn's Magma Hot Sauce features 1 million SHUs and a lava-esque blob of capsicum in the middle of all that translucent vinegar. So, yeah, it physically may not look so hot thanks to the clear vinegar, but it's up there. It's definitely up there.
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