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). Spicy Food News: Paqui Haunted Ghost Pepper Chips Are Still Available, Tabasco Teams up with Banza, and More 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.

Moving into the 7-digit SHU level of heat, the unique Hot Ones / 88 Rising collaboration brought us Dragon In The Clouds in 2019. This hot sauce is unique, but also bizarre and difficult to pair with food. It is brutally spicy thanks to Ghost chiles, and has a bitter, citrusy zest from yuzu. 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!Welcome to our spicy corner of the internet. Our main goal is to help you grow healthy, bountiful pepper plants in your garden. Welcome to the Pepper Geek family. More about us >

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.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.

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. Just when you think you’ve seen the hottest pepper and the hottest hot sauces, something new breaks the boundaries. We know where our limits are when it comes to pepper heat, but some like it much, much hotter than we do, and we can understand. 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. 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.

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. 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:

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! 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. 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. The Hot Sauce Scoville Scale lists numerous hot sauces sorted by their pungency and their amount of capsaicin in Scoville Heat Units (SHU). A hot sauce, also known as chili pepper sauce is a spicy seasoning sauce made from chili peppers and other ingredients such as various fruit and vegetables, vinegar and spices. In addition to changing the degree of spiciness, hot sauce is also used to alter the actual taste of a dish. The production of hot sauces can be done by cooking, fermentation, but also by using only raw ingredients. Types of Hot SauceDave’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. Ingredients: Hot peppers, tomato paste, hot pepper extract, salt, cane vinegar, onions, xanthan gum, garlic, citric acid, spices In this article, we’ll rank some of the most popular hot sauces on the Scoville scale from mild to insanely hot.