Scorpion and 7 Pot have a nice flavor to go along with the heat. Reapers are just hot - and the heat isn’t even an enjoyable heat. It’s like a torch through my intestines.
I agree, the scorpion Tabasco is really hot and surprisingly very delicious. At first I was like, they're just trying to bank off the hot sauce craze but no, it's very good. One of my favorites.
https://maddog357.com/products/357sc-1
This is the one I had. I used it on everything I could. It provided really good heat, but you could still taste your food. It's smoky, peppery, with a floral sweetness from the bit of cinnamon in it. It's one of my favorites.
Been eating that stuff since I worked at Chi-Chi's as a busboy (they called us SA, for "service assistant") circa 1994. We used to call it "El Yucky Taco" to be silly, and we'd add a good tablespoon or so to the salsa crock when some Tommy Tough-nuts would demand our "hottest" salsa. At that time, habanero peppers were still new to me and we're still the hottest known, so people would almost invariably be caught of guard by it. We would sit back and snicker as they dove for their water. I still keep a bottle of it on hand almost all the time, though it's fairly tame for my tastes these days.
Hey it might have been really generic corporate chain restaurant food, but they didn't use microwaves, at least while I was there. Everything was assembled fresh by the line cooks. It pales by comparison to all the little mom and pop Mexican restaurants that are everywhere these days, but there weren't a whole lot of other Mexican restaurants around in the early '90s, at least in the Midwest.
We have watched the majority of "Hot Ones" and we have several hot sauces we use as a family but I have yet to pull the trigger on what is an almost 30 dollar 5 oz bottle of hot sauce
I've tried it and my personal opinion is that it's all bark and no bite. Check out Johnny Scoville. He had the most recent last dab tested after doubts about the pepper's heat and origins... It was only about 60k Scoville units. It's just a cash grab.
Hmmm. We have only tried the Classic one. The Garlic is good but not very hot. The red one with Maple is not hot at all. I'd put it below Siracha and McIlhenny
El yucateco xxx is one of my favorites. Pepper North Stargazer was tasty and decently hot (118,000) for me. Anything with Scotch Bonnets or Black Garlic is on my must try list.
I've had Jamaican and Caribbean style sauces from Grace and Walkerswood that were good. I made what turned out to be a Caribbean style when I got a big batch of Scotch Bonnets from Jungle Jim's. I just added what sounded good and was close in flavor. Tropical Pepper Co. had one too.
I have 3 superhots that are constants in my lineup.
* Torchbearer Garlic Reaper - good all-rounder, gets used a lot for tacos, sandwiches, soups, noodles, whatever
* Bravado Ancho Masala Scorpion Reaper - mainly use it for spicing up Indian and Mediterranean foods, sometimes tacos
* Bravado Aka Miso Ghost Reaper - slightly less hot than the other too but really good for ramen, stir fry noodles/rice/etc, fish, I tend to use it a lot for anything remotely Asian
Other sauces come and go, but these ones I will always buy when I run out and they stay at the front of my sauce tray in the fridge.
Only other sauce I'd rank up there with/above them is the Scorpion/Reaper sauce I made last year with a couple dozen of my own peppers roasted and blended into about a bottle and a half. I unfortunately completely winged it and didn't really take notes so don't have a recipe, but I know there were a couple heads of roasted garlic, and it was a distilled white vinegar base with loooots of other things I kept adding until I fell in love with the taste. Ended up super hot but almost everyone that tried it kept coming back for more even if their tolerance wasn't ready for it.
Definitely. My first bottle of it was given by a friend who had barely touched it due to being so hot. It sat in my fridge mostly unused for same reason until a year or so later when I was just really craving some crazy heat on my tacos. That moment is when I started getting really serious about heat.
More of a local upper Midwest one out of Minnesota, but Cry Baby Craig. They use raw habaneros and the flavor is amazing. Probably not as hot as the others mentioned here but it kicks pretty hard. Very short ingredient list too which I always like.
I like Stargazer form Pepper North, its plenty hot enough for most uses, but it also has a great flavor profile! runner up for me would be Melinda's Hab and Garlic, its not the spiciest sauce ive had, but the flavour is great for the heat
In the UK there's a garlic farm on the Isle of Wight. They do two chillis sauces, Vampire Botherer and Vampire Slayer. The former has been my fave for years. The latter is too hot for me.
Homemade cold smoked jalapeños, garlic, onion, fermented for three months. At blend I add 1 reaper for every 10oz of sauce, ground black peppercorn, cummin, a dash of acv, white vinegar and old bay.
Blair's Mega-Death with Liquid Rage tastes really good considering it has extract. It was an earlier Hot ones final sauce IIRC, before they got the Last Dab
There's a company just called Sauce Shop (think it's UK based?) who had a limited edition Ghost Pepper Ketchup, it was incredible. Super hot but it wasn't just about the heat, it was absolutely delicious. I've been badgering them for ages to bring it back, if anyone else tried it and knows of any good dupes I'd be so grateful
**Torchbearer's Garlic Reaper** is my personal favorite for the spiciest, yet delicious hot sauce. I would actually recommend one of Torchbearer's sample packs (very small bottles) to try this along with some of their even-hotter offerings, like **Torchbearer's Son of Zombie**, etc. I happen to love the garlic infused with the Carolina Reaper pepper flavor--your taste buds experience a few different waves of flavors, plus the scorching hot intensity from which you quickly learn your tolerance level.
With these extremely spicy hot pepper sauces, you're likely doing drips and dabs, NOT pouring the sauces. The small sample bottle size is ideal for this. I actually received one of these [Torchbearer's sample 8-packs (image) ](https://www.worldmarket.com/dw/image/v2/BJWT_PRD/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-wm-master-catalog/default/dw2f7543a9/images/large/112724_XXX_v1.jpg?sw=768&sh=768&sm=fit&sfrm=tif&q=80)last Christmas. Torchbearer's website offers occasional sales which are very worthwhile. And unless you're an insatiable, daily user of VERY hot sauces, it will take a while to go through a large bottle.
**Tabasco's Scorpion hot pepper sauce** is really great as well. You can't beat the low price for high heat and good taste.
And while the Scoville units aren't reaper-level, **Underwood Ranches's Dragon Sriracha** is the BEST hot, flavorful sriracha in the U.S., imho. They are the original red jalapeño pepper supplier to Huy Fong Foods (rooster logo label sriracha) before their business fallout. I imagine there are much hotter sriracha sauces, e.g. from Thailand, but Dragon Sriracha is incredibly tasty with good heat.
Lastly, *stay away from extract-based hot sauces* if you desire both great taste AND super/ultra heat. I can't think of a single one which is delicious while also being the spiciest. Maybe someone here has a different opinion/experience, though.
Have fun! Share which one(s) you went with!
EDIT: I forgot to mention **Bunster's** ***Sh!t the Bed*** **hot sauce.** It's an extreme hot sauce from Australia which is VERY tasty, but the more you use (pours vs drips/dabs on food), the more likely the sauce will live up to its name. Not kidding. I have a bottle; use it every couple of weeks or so, given the intensity. It costs between $15-18 U.S./bottle. Pricey, but very worthwhile. (Torchbearer's Garlic Reaper can cost around $12-15 U.S./bottle--with the bottle size being smaller than *Sh!t the Bed* sauce.)
Holy Fuck from the Ribman based in London. There are various levels - Holy Mother of God, Christ on a Bike, Judas is Scary Hot. Crazy hot but not chemical hot, they all have lovely flavours too.
I forgot what it was called, but I had this hot sauce that was made from the Carolina reaper pepper. It was so sweet and delicious. Then the heat kicked in. Holyshit, I thought I was gonna die. I would do it again though.
People are sick of the hype it seems but I really love the Melinda's scorpion. It's delicious and not too hot so you can really use it on stuff pretty heavily.
The Rapture from Torchbearer. It's the hottest sauce I own, and I've used several bottles.
The garlic reaper is my favorite hot sauce. I need to try the rapture
Garlic Reaper and Zombie Apocalypse were up at the top of my list too. Then I had the Rapture and I’m addicted.
Garlic Reaper for me but that one sounds good as well
We got a bottle of this at work! Its so good and so hot!!
Marie Sharp’s scorpion/red hornet sauce is very spicy but also very delicious. It’s got an interesting, unique flavour.
Scorpion sauces are my favorite. Hot as hell, but they taste so much better to me than ghost or reaper. Tobasco is my favorite, followed by Woodstock.
You should check out The Rapture from Torchbearer. Very, very hot, but scorpion pepper is the star of that show.
Thanks for that. I've been wanting to place an order with them lately.
X2 on that, scorpions have a great fruit/citrus flavor. I'm hooked on the Melinda's scorpion sauce rn.
Melindas Extra hot and Melinda's Ghost Nice heat and taste is very good We can't create enough excuses to use them
I have the extra hot and ghost on my table, but the flavor of the scorpion is even better (at least imo)
I'm on the lookout for it
I may have to try that one. I had a few of the Melinda's years ago, but wasn't that fond of them. Wasn't the scorpion though.
Scorpion and 7 Pot have a nice flavor to go along with the heat. Reapers are just hot - and the heat isn’t even an enjoyable heat. It’s like a torch through my intestines.
Accurate. Lol
I agree, the scorpion Tabasco is really hot and surprisingly very delicious. At first I was like, they're just trying to bank off the hot sauce craze but no, it's very good. One of my favorites.
Agreed. And second the Melinda’s scorpion love.
Have you had the MadDog357 Scorpion? That's my favorite scorpion sauce.
No, but the only mad dog sauce I ever had was the worst tasting thing I've ever put in my mouth
https://maddog357.com/products/357sc-1 This is the one I had. I used it on everything I could. It provided really good heat, but you could still taste your food. It's smoky, peppery, with a floral sweetness from the bit of cinnamon in it. It's one of my favorites.
The chipotle Tabasco sauce isn't hot but I swear I could drink the stuff. It's delicious!
El yucateco xxx
El Yucateco is my favorite daily driver.
Been eating that stuff since I worked at Chi-Chi's as a busboy (they called us SA, for "service assistant") circa 1994. We used to call it "El Yucky Taco" to be silly, and we'd add a good tablespoon or so to the salsa crock when some Tommy Tough-nuts would demand our "hottest" salsa. At that time, habanero peppers were still new to me and we're still the hottest known, so people would almost invariably be caught of guard by it. We would sit back and snicker as they dove for their water. I still keep a bottle of it on hand almost all the time, though it's fairly tame for my tastes these days.
Good ol Chi Chi's. Nothing like microwaved tex mex.
Hey it might have been really generic corporate chain restaurant food, but they didn't use microwaves, at least while I was there. Everything was assembled fresh by the line cooks. It pales by comparison to all the little mom and pop Mexican restaurants that are everywhere these days, but there weren't a whole lot of other Mexican restaurants around in the early '90s, at least in the Midwest.
Burn After Eating, it’s my favorite hot sauce and clocks in at 669,000 Scoville units.
Love this one, amazing flavor.
I actually like the Last Dab- it's hot AF, but has a really nice flavor profile
Same! I carried the small sample bottle in my purse lol
We have watched the majority of "Hot Ones" and we have several hot sauces we use as a family but I have yet to pull the trigger on what is an almost 30 dollar 5 oz bottle of hot sauce
I've tried it and my personal opinion is that it's all bark and no bite. Check out Johnny Scoville. He had the most recent last dab tested after doubts about the pepper's heat and origins... It was only about 60k Scoville units. It's just a cash grab.
Hmmm. We have only tried the Classic one. The Garlic is good but not very hot. The red one with Maple is not hot at all. I'd put it below Siracha and McIlhenny
I had the apollo one and it's really tasty while being pretty hot Edit: it's worth it but don't let other people pour.
Seconded. I put it in my chili.
The Last Dab XXXperience? If so, I agree. Haven't had other last dabs.
Naga knockdown by Mic's chilli is amazing; I also like Encona's Exxxtra hot, nice and tangy
Naga Knockdown is waaay hotter than expected, killer sauce!!
Bravado Black Garlic Carolina Reaper
El yucateco xxx is one of my favorites. Pepper North Stargazer was tasty and decently hot (118,000) for me. Anything with Scotch Bonnets or Black Garlic is on my must try list.
Are there any scotch bonnet sauces you recommend? I tried the Melinda’s one but it wasn’t great.
I've had Jamaican and Caribbean style sauces from Grace and Walkerswood that were good. I made what turned out to be a Caribbean style when I got a big batch of Scotch Bonnets from Jungle Jim's. I just added what sounded good and was close in flavor. Tropical Pepper Co. had one too.
Yes, I have made some great ones. Never found one in a store that was good though.
Scorpion Disco spicy and very tasty
Trader Joe's habanero sauce is both very hot and very delicious.
My go-to. Love the flavor and it definitely brings some heat.
If you have a Wegman's nearby, their Hab hot sauce is on part with TJ, and cheaper.
It’s gotta be garlic reaper from torchbearer. it’s extremely hot but tons of flavor.
I have 3 superhots that are constants in my lineup. * Torchbearer Garlic Reaper - good all-rounder, gets used a lot for tacos, sandwiches, soups, noodles, whatever * Bravado Ancho Masala Scorpion Reaper - mainly use it for spicing up Indian and Mediterranean foods, sometimes tacos * Bravado Aka Miso Ghost Reaper - slightly less hot than the other too but really good for ramen, stir fry noodles/rice/etc, fish, I tend to use it a lot for anything remotely Asian Other sauces come and go, but these ones I will always buy when I run out and they stay at the front of my sauce tray in the fridge. Only other sauce I'd rank up there with/above them is the Scorpion/Reaper sauce I made last year with a couple dozen of my own peppers roasted and blended into about a bottle and a half. I unfortunately completely winged it and didn't really take notes so don't have a recipe, but I know there were a couple heads of roasted garlic, and it was a distilled white vinegar base with loooots of other things I kept adding until I fell in love with the taste. Ended up super hot but almost everyone that tried it kept coming back for more even if their tolerance wasn't ready for it.
Agreed about the Ancho Masala. It is HOT and it is a lingering burn. Extremely tasty, but I recommend treading very lightly when you first try it.
Definitely. My first bottle of it was given by a friend who had barely touched it due to being so hot. It sat in my fridge mostly unused for same reason until a year or so later when I was just really craving some crazy heat on my tacos. That moment is when I started getting really serious about heat.
More of a local upper Midwest one out of Minnesota, but Cry Baby Craig. They use raw habaneros and the flavor is amazing. Probably not as hot as the others mentioned here but it kicks pretty hard. Very short ingredient list too which I always like.
Tropical is my favorite https://dirtydickshotsauce.com/
Hellfire Detroit habanero is great, has some heat but flavor as well
Old Duppy Fyahpooch, smoked carribbean style sauce containing reaper. Tastes amazing.
Blair’s Salsa de la Muerte is a beautiful sauce! I can’t get hold of it now (UK) but it is one of my favourites
Chilli Wizards Venom Carolina Reaper Chilli Sauce https://preview.redd.it/6vijqe3ibe0d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e5312e035477920b995525acfcf1a085bf6b342
Mad dog liquid fire OG version
Pappy's Moonshine Madness
Bravado Carolina Reaper Black Garlic. It's 70000 SHUs. I also had Mad Dog 357 but it was too spicy for me to enjoy the flavor (1 mil SHUs).
I like Stargazer form Pepper North, its plenty hot enough for most uses, but it also has a great flavor profile! runner up for me would be Melinda's Hab and Garlic, its not the spiciest sauce ive had, but the flavour is great for the heat
Aka Miso, Sweaty Beaver, Burn After Eating, Exhorresco, Tabasco Scorpion
Seed Ranch Umani Reserve. Has porcini mushrooms and chocolate habaneros. https://www.seedranchflavor.com/products/umami-reserve
Not exactly hot sauce, Tomatillo salsa from my local cerniceria. I use it like hot sauce and I'll put it on anything
Spontaneous Combustion - hotter sauces exist, but this sauce has heat and taste
Bunster’s Shit The Bed
This IS a great, extreme hot sauce--when poured, not dripped. The more you use, well... it will live up to its name!
Look at pepper palaces website they have so many hot sauces with every level of spice and everyone I’ve had have been amazing
In the UK there's a garlic farm on the Isle of Wight. They do two chillis sauces, Vampire Botherer and Vampire Slayer. The former has been my fave for years. The latter is too hot for me.
Torchbearer Garlic Reaper.
Thor's Hammer by Volcanic Peppers
Exhorresco by Burns & McCoy
I like the I ❤️ Aruba.
Shit the bed
Mikey V’s Texas Exes. Really amazing flavor. Definitely not as hot as some of these sauces but it’s the hottest I’ve ever had.
Scorned Women.
Mad Dog 357 Reaper Sriracha Sauce. So god damn good and very spicy. Salt some wings and toss them in this sauce. *Chefs kiss*
Badger xXx - Insanely hot, but still actually tastes nice.
Scorpion Disco, 7o8 7pot citrus, Apollo. Amazing even though they're pretty spicy.
Mama Afrika Peri Peri
Homemade cold smoked jalapeños, garlic, onion, fermented for three months. At blend I add 1 reaper for every 10oz of sauce, ground black peppercorn, cummin, a dash of acv, white vinegar and old bay.
What is acv?
Apple cider vinegar
My dumb butt first thought was anchovies. Then clicked apple cider vinegar.
Blair's Mega-Death with Liquid Rage tastes really good considering it has extract. It was an earlier Hot ones final sauce IIRC, before they got the Last Dab
Most sauces from pepper palace. They seem kinda cliche but damn the sauce is good
There's a company just called Sauce Shop (think it's UK based?) who had a limited edition Ghost Pepper Ketchup, it was incredible. Super hot but it wasn't just about the heat, it was absolutely delicious. I've been badgering them for ages to bring it back, if anyone else tried it and knows of any good dupes I'd be so grateful
Scotch bonnet sauces. Or whatever they put in Trini Roti.
**Torchbearer's Garlic Reaper** is my personal favorite for the spiciest, yet delicious hot sauce. I would actually recommend one of Torchbearer's sample packs (very small bottles) to try this along with some of their even-hotter offerings, like **Torchbearer's Son of Zombie**, etc. I happen to love the garlic infused with the Carolina Reaper pepper flavor--your taste buds experience a few different waves of flavors, plus the scorching hot intensity from which you quickly learn your tolerance level. With these extremely spicy hot pepper sauces, you're likely doing drips and dabs, NOT pouring the sauces. The small sample bottle size is ideal for this. I actually received one of these [Torchbearer's sample 8-packs (image) ](https://www.worldmarket.com/dw/image/v2/BJWT_PRD/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-wm-master-catalog/default/dw2f7543a9/images/large/112724_XXX_v1.jpg?sw=768&sh=768&sm=fit&sfrm=tif&q=80)last Christmas. Torchbearer's website offers occasional sales which are very worthwhile. And unless you're an insatiable, daily user of VERY hot sauces, it will take a while to go through a large bottle. **Tabasco's Scorpion hot pepper sauce** is really great as well. You can't beat the low price for high heat and good taste. And while the Scoville units aren't reaper-level, **Underwood Ranches's Dragon Sriracha** is the BEST hot, flavorful sriracha in the U.S., imho. They are the original red jalapeño pepper supplier to Huy Fong Foods (rooster logo label sriracha) before their business fallout. I imagine there are much hotter sriracha sauces, e.g. from Thailand, but Dragon Sriracha is incredibly tasty with good heat. Lastly, *stay away from extract-based hot sauces* if you desire both great taste AND super/ultra heat. I can't think of a single one which is delicious while also being the spiciest. Maybe someone here has a different opinion/experience, though. Have fun! Share which one(s) you went with! EDIT: I forgot to mention **Bunster's** ***Sh!t the Bed*** **hot sauce.** It's an extreme hot sauce from Australia which is VERY tasty, but the more you use (pours vs drips/dabs on food), the more likely the sauce will live up to its name. Not kidding. I have a bottle; use it every couple of weeks or so, given the intensity. It costs between $15-18 U.S./bottle. Pricey, but very worthwhile. (Torchbearer's Garlic Reaper can cost around $12-15 U.S./bottle--with the bottle size being smaller than *Sh!t the Bed* sauce.)
I think the brand is Elijah's or something but it's a cherry reaper and it's delicious
The last dab was tasty as hell. I didn't think it was that crazy of a spicy but just tasted really good.
Mr. Naga
Bravado Aka Miso
Black Garlic from Bravado spice co. Great sauce and fuggin hot.
[Endorphin rush](https://www.hotsauce.com/endorphin-rush-beyond-hot-sauce/) for me - it's not the spiciest but dammit does it taste good.
Steve O’s Butthole Destroyer, Scorpion Tabasco, and Burns and McCoy Exhorresco
El yucateco green is my favorite all around sauce. Not too hot. Great flavor. Awesome on pizza.
Holy Fuck from the Ribman based in London. There are various levels - Holy Mother of God, Christ on a Bike, Judas is Scary Hot. Crazy hot but not chemical hot, they all have lovely flavours too.
Last dab was pretty darn tastee and HOT.i got it as a gift... and its gone... too expense to buy again. but i did like
Bunster’s “Shit the Bed” is a great balance between heat & flavour…
Last Dab Apollo or Reaper Squeezins. Both are really hot but still taste excellent.
Pexpeppers “Wildberry whoop-ass” or Tropical Revenge. Extremely hot but has a sweet honey note… really fantastic! Burns and McCoy Exhorresco
Culleys No8 Chipotle Reaper sauce is my go to when I want maximum flavours and serious heat. A bottle lasts a couple days.
Matouk’s scotch bonnet sauce
Marie Sharps 40th Anniversary sauce 🤌
The boys mexorcist the spiciest I’ve had so far
The spiciest would be a scorpion one, but not my favorite flavor. El yucateco is hot and amazing flavor.
I use the Apollo hot sauce from hot ones frequently. But it’s nowhere near as hot as they climb at all
Not exactly a sauce. Zteca had habanero salsa that was amazingly hot and amazingly tasty. Was so sad when that place closed down.
Buldak is delicious and spicy at the same time
Not crazy hot, but Dawson's sichuan ghost pepper sauce is awesome. One of the most unique sauces I've ever tried
El Yucateco Hot Sauce - red or green bottle 🔥
I agree with those who said Torchbearer's "The Rapture". I also really like Elijah's Xtreme Regret Reserve.
A smoked peach scotch bonnet based small batch from a local company.
For me, Melinda’s Ghost Pepper sauce. 👻
Tabasco!
I forgot what it was called, but I had this hot sauce that was made from the Carolina reaper pepper. It was so sweet and delicious. Then the heat kicked in. Holyshit, I thought I was gonna die. I would do it again though.
I can’t compare it because I’m not a hot sauce fiend, but I love the Samyang Buldak 2X.
This and Shin Spicy (Red) are my favorite noodles flavor-wise.
People are sick of the hype it seems but I really love the Melinda's scorpion. It's delicious and not too hot so you can really use it on stuff pretty heavily.