First, the flavor: It’s terrible. I don’t know what battery acid tastes like, but if the makers of Da Bomb (who say it was invented to spice enormous quantities of soups and stews with just a few drops) said it was inspired by it, I’d believe them. For super hot, brain-busting hot sauce, look no further than Mad Dog 357, which boasts a frightening 600,000 Scoville units, which is pure unadulterated pain. The 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 or 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.

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.

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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. But in hot sauce, that capsaicin extract is greatly diluted with other ingredients like vinegar, spices, and citrus juice. And in fact, pepper extracts are never intended for direct consumption, their purpose is to be added to other food items to increase their spice level. The hottest hot sauce we know of (2023) We’ll get into the heat below. Just know for now that this is a hot sauce that reaches an extreme level of spiciness. Leading off with Trinidad Moruga Scorpion and Carolina Reaper is about as bold as you get.

Inside you’ll find three hot sauces which each show off the power of a different pepper, letting you savour and sweat out all the intensity of a ghost, red savina or habanero chilli. I’ve just had a dab of it about the size of a baby’s fingernail and it feels like someone’s pierced my tongue with a sparkler. Business owner Paul Robinson told Teesside Live said the scoville rating of the sauce is the equivalent to US grade pepper spray and is not for the faint-hearted. Now, why do we say it “appears to be” the hottest hot sauce in the world? Because we don’t actually know how spicy it is!Da Bomb Ground Zero measures at 321,003 SHU, and Da Bomb the Final Answer comes in at 1.5m SHU. At Spicin’s tasting bar in Kansas (which is open through the pandemic), chilli-eaters have to be 18 or over and sign a waiver to try “the Source” – which is recommended to be used one drop at a time and not “around children or pets” – at an astonishing 7.1m SHU. 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!

Given some of the dangerously high Scoville scores on this list, it’s a reasonable question and the answer is both yes and no. Eventually, the stomach revolts, tightening even more into a stubborn cramp, seemingly begging for it all to stop. There are a few reasons that we don’t actually know how spicy a lot of the hottest hot sauces are. Smart marketing This isn’t professional, no one’s getting paid, everyone’s just stepping up to get bragging rights,” he says. After that first challenge against Johnson, Waseem and the rest of the competitors drank beers at a local bar and became fast friends. They visit each other when possible and watch each other’s livestreams, cheering each other on and sending each other super-hot and hard-to-get products available in their respective hometowns.

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Waseem’s partner, Paul Ouro, and fellow UK competitor Matt Tangent are the founders of the League of Fire, an elaborate global ranking system where points are allocated to competitors when they successfully complete challenges. Until the League of Fire was established, the community was disparate and disjointed, and there was no official ranking of competitors.