Hot Sauce Scoville Scale

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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 Sauce

Depending on the chili pepper varieties used and the type of production process, hot sauces are divided into different degrees of pungency and consistencies. There are rather thick sauces with a lot of chili peppers like the Sriracha sauce. The Sriracha sauce is named after the city of Si Racha in Thailand and consists mainly of pureed chillies, garlic, sugar and relatively little vinegar. It is one of the world’s most famous Asian sauces used worldwide in the kitchen. But there are also thinner sauces that contain more vinegar, such as the classic Louisiana hot sauce. The world famous fermented TABASCO® sauce from the USA is a typical representative of the Louisiana style. In the Caribbean, there are very fruity chili sauces, which are mostly made from fresh fruits and Capsicum chinense chilis.

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.

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Scoville Scale

Scoville Heat Units	Scoville Level	Hot Sauce	Producer
16,000,000 SHU	10+++	Blair's 16 Million Reserve (Pure Capsaicin crystals)	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
16,000,000 SHU	10+++	Blair's 6 A.M. (Pure Capsaicin crystals)	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
16,000,000 SHU	10+++	Blair’s Halloween Reserve 2009 (Extract)	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
14,725,000 SHU	10+++	Blair's Holiday Reserve 2005 (Extract)	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
14,200,000 SHU	10+++	Meaty Vegan’s Experiment 1064 (Extract)	Meaty Vegan
14,100,000 SHU	10+++	Blair's Holiday Reserve 2004 (Extract)	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
14,000,000 SHU	10+++	Blair's Holiday Reserve 2006 (Extract)	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
13,500,000 SHU	10+++	Blair's Halloween Reserve 2006 (Extract)	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
10,000,000 SHU	10+++	Blair’s Caldera Hot Sauce Top (Extract)	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
9,600,000 SHU	10+++	Texas Creek Pure Evil 9.6 Capsaicin Drops (Extract)	Texas Creek
9,000,000 SHU	10+++	Mad Dog 357 Plutonium No. 9 (Extract)	Ashley Food Company
7,100,000 SHU	10+++	The Source	Spicin Foods (Original Juan)
6,000,000 SHU	10+++	Bumblefoot’s Bumblef**kd	Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal (Distributed by CaJohns Fiery Foods Co.)
6,000,000 SHU	10+++	Crazy Uncle Jester’s - The Jester	Crazy Uncle Jester's Inferno World
6,000,000 SHU	10+++	CaJohns Get Bitten Black Mamba 6 Hot Sauce	CaJohns Fiery Foods Co.
6,000,000 SHU	10+++	Mad Dog 357 Collector’s Edition	Ashley Food Company
6,000,000 SHU	10+++	Mad Dog 357 Mark of The Beast	Ashley Food Company
5,500,000 SHU	10+++	Blair's 5 A.M.	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
5,000,000 SHU	10+++	Blair’s Caldera Hot Sauce Middle	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
4,000,000 SHU	10+++	Blair's 4 A.M.	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
4,000,000 SHU	10+++	CaJohns Magma 4 Hot Sauce	CaJohns Fiery Foods Co.
4,000,000 SHU	10+++	CaJohns Z Nothing Beyond Hot Sauce	CaJohns Fiery Foods Co.
4,000,000 SHU	10+++	Mad Dog 44 Magnum	Ashley Food Company
3,500,000 SHU	10+++	Pepper Palace - The Hottest Sauce in the Universe
3,000,000 SHU	10+++	CaJohns Mongoose Hot Sauce	CaJohns Fiery Foods Co.
3,000,000 SHU	10+++	Mad Dog 38 Midnight Special (Extract)
2,500,000 SHU	10+++	CaJohns Black Mamba Hot Sauce	CaJohns Fiery Foods Co.
2,000,000 SHU	10+++	Blair’s 3 A.M.	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
2,000,000 SHU	10+++	CaJohns Vicious Viper	CaJohns Fiery Foods Co.
2,000,000 SHU	10+++	CaJohns Wanza’s Wicked Temptation Hot Sauce	CaJohns Fiery Foods Co.
2,000,000 SHU	10+++	Demon Ichor
2,000,000 SHU	10+++	Hot Ones - The Last Dab Reduxx	Heatonist
2,000,000 SHU	10+++	Mad Dog 22 Midnight Special (Extract)	Ashley Food Company
1,560,000 SHU	10+++	Texas Creek Pure Evil Capsaicin Drops
1,500,000 SHU	10+++	Da' Bomb The Final Answer Hot Sauce	Spicin Foods (Original Juan)
1,500,000 SHU	10+++	Pyro Diablo
1,500,000 SHU	10+++	Smack My Ass and Call Me Sally – Chet’s Gone Mad
1,400,000 SHU	10++	Blair’s Le Million Reserve	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
1,200,000 SHU	10+	Crazy Uncle Jester’s Spontaneous Combustion	Crazy Uncle Jester's Inferno World
1,200,000 SHU	10+	TorchBearer - The Rapture - Trinidad Scorpion Pepper Hot Sauce
1,100,000 SHU	10+	Crazy Uncle Jester’s Select Reserve	Crazy Uncle Jester's Inferno World
1,000,000 SHU	10+	Blair’s Caldera Hot Sauce Bottom	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
1,000,000 SHU	10+	CaJohns Magma Hot Sauce	CaJohns Fiery Foods Co.
1,000,000 SHU	10+	Dragon in the Clouds Hot Sauce	First We Feast and 88Rising
1,000,000 SHU	10+	Cool Million – One Million Scoville Units
1,000,000 SHU	10+	Frostbite Hot Sauce
1,000,000 SHU	10+	Gold Cap
1,000,000 SHU	10+	Hell’s Inferno Naga Bhut Jolokia Sauce
1,000,000 SHU	10+	Mad Dog 357 Gold Edition Hot Sauce	Ashley Food Company
1,000,000 SHU	10+	Mad Dog 357 Revenge	Ashley Food Company
1,000,000 SHU	10+	One Million Scoville Pepper Extract	Ashley Food Company
1,000,000 SHU	10+	Pepper Palace - The Hottest Sauce in the World
800,000 SHU	10	Blair's Ultra Death Sauce	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
800,000 SHU	10	Satan’s Blood Extract Hot Sauce
750,000 SHU	10	Blair’s 2 A.M.	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
750,000 SHU	10	Blair’s Jersey Death Sauce	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
750,000 SHU	10	Mad Dog 357 Silver Collector’s Edition Hot Sauce	Ashley Food Company
750,000 SHU	10	Habanera 750
750,000 SHU	10	Unbearable
700,000 SHU	10	Smack My Ass and Call Me Sally – The Slap Heard Around the World
669,000 SHU	10	Burn After Eating Hot Sauce	Karma Sauce
690,000 SHU	10	Puckerbutt Chocolate Plague Hot Sauce
650,000 SHU	10	Dave’s Ghost Pepper Naga Jolokia Hot Sauce	Dave's Gourmet
600,000 SHU	10	Mad Dog 357 Collector’s Edition Hot Sauce	Ashley Food Company
600,000 SHU	10	The Hottest Fuckin’ Sauce
600,000 SHU	10	Psycho Juice Extreme Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce
577,000 SHU	10	Melinda’s Red Savina Pepper Sauce	Melinda's
550,000 SHU	10	Blair's Mega Death Sauce	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
500,000 SHU	10	Pure Cap Hot Sauce - Ferociously Fiery Hot Sauce
500,000 SHU	10	Dave’s Private Reserve Insanity Hot Sauce
500,000 SHU	10	TorchBearer Zombie Apocalypse
500,000 SHU	10	Quaker Steak and Lube Triple Atomic Sauce	Quaker Steak and Lube
357,000 SHU	10	Mad Dog 357 Hot Sauce	Ashley Food Company
305,500 SHU	10	Danny Cash’s Jolokial Havoc
300,000 SHU	10	Buffalo Wild Wings Blazin’ Sauce
283,000 SHU	10	Blair’s Possible Side Effects Hot Sauce	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
250,000 SHU	10	Dave's Ultimate Insanity Hot Sauce
100,000 - 250,000 SHU	10	Smack My Ass and Call Me Sally - Habanero Hot Sauce
234,500 SHU	9	Cajohn's Lethal Injestion Bhut Jolokia Hot Sauce
234,000 SHU	9	Da’ Bomb Ground Zero Hot Sauce	Spicin Foods (Original Juan)
225,000 SHU	9	Not Cool Chocolate Habanero
180,000 SHU	9	Dave's Original Insanity Hot Sauce
175,000 SHU	9	Predator Great White Shark
162,300 SHU	9	Habanero Punch T.K.O. Hot Sauce
150,000 SHU	9	Mad Dog 357 Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce	Ashley Food Company
150,000 SHU	9	Mad Dog 357 Inferno Ghost Pepper Edition Reserve Hot Sauce	Ashley Food Company
150,000 SHU	9	Mad Dog Inferno Hot Sauce – 1999 Reserve Edition	Ashley Food Company
150,000 SHU	9	Quaker Steak and Lube Atomic Wing Sauce	Quaker Steak and Lube
135,000 SHU	9	Da’ Bomb Beyond Insanity Hot Sauce	Spicin Foods (Original Juan)
134,000 SHU	9	Jolokia 10 Hot Sauce
125,000 SHU	9	Crazy Jerry’s Mustard Gas Hot Sauce	Crazy Jerry’s
116,000 SHU	9	Aka Miso Ghost-Reaper Hot Sauce	Bravado Spice Company
116,000 SHU	9	TorchBearer Garlic Reaper Hot Sauce
105,000 SHU	9	Blair's Sudden Death Sauce	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
104,000 SHU	9	Wiltshire Chilli Farm Trinidad Scorpion Hot Sauce
100,000 SHU	9	Dead Heat Limited Edition Hot Sauce
100,000 SHU	9	Mad Dog 357 Reaper Sriracha Sauce	Ashley Food Company
100,000 SHU	9	Mad Dog 357 Scorpion Hot Sauce	Ashley Food Company
99,760 SHU	8	Blair's Beyond Death Hot Sauce	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
90,000 SHU	8	Mad Dog Inferno Hot Sauce	Ashley Food Company
90,000 SHU	8	Widow Hot Sauce
80,000 SHU	8	You Can’t Handle This Hot Sauce
77,000 SHU	8	Adoboloco Fiya! Fiya! Hot Sauce
66,000 SHU	8	Hellfire Detroit Habanero Hot Sauce
67,582 SHU	8	TorchBearer #42 Slaughter Sauce
57,000 SHU	7	Dave’s Temporary Insanity Hot Sauce	Dave's Gourmet
52,000 SHU	7	Torchbearer Headless Horseradish Hot Sauce
50,000 SHU	7	Blair’s After Death Hot Sauce with Chipotle	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
50,000 SHU	7	TABASCO® Brand Pepper Scorpion Pepper Sauce	McIlhenny
49,250 SHU	7	Blair's After Death Hot Sauce	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
45,000 SHU	7	Lottie’s Original Barbados Red Hot Sauce
44,100 SHU	7	Pain is Good Reaper-Acha Hot Sauce	Spicin Foods (Original Juan)
42,000 SHU	7	Dead Heat Hot Sauce
40,600 SHU	7	Pain 100% Hot Sauce	Spicin Foods (Original Juan)
40,000 SHU	7	Raw Heat Vintage '69 Hot Sauce	Spicin Foods (Original Juan)
38,202 SHU	7	TorchBearer #37 Tarnation Sauce
36,000 SHU	7	Hot Ones - Los Calientes Hot Sauce
35,000 SHU	7	Blair’s Pure Death Sauce	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
33,390 SHU	7	Endorphin Rush Beyond Hot Sauce
33,390 SHU	7	Endorphin Rush Hot Sauce
30,000 SHU	6	Blairs Original Death Hot Sauce	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
30,000 SHU	6	Lottie’s Traditional Barbados Yellow
29,800 SHU	6	Lucky Dog - Year of The Dog Thai Chile Pineapple Hot Sauce
30,000 SHU	6	Quaker Steak and Lube SuperCharged Wing Sauce	Quaker Steak and Lube
25,000 SHU	6	TorchBearer Son of Zombie
21,540 SHU	6	Naga Sabi Bomb Hot Sauce
20,000 SHU	6	Blair's Jalapeño Death Hot Sauce	Blair's Sauces and Snacks
20,000 SHU	6	Mad Anthony’s Hot Sauce
15,100 SHU	6	Dragon Repellent Knightmare	Spicin Foods (Original Juan)
14,000 SHU	5	Big Daddy Jake’s Texas Pit Smoked Hot Sauce
14,000 SHU	5	Queen Majesty Red Habanero and Black Coffee Hot Sauce
12,200 SHU	5	Heartbeat Pineapple Habanero Hot Sauce
11,700 SHU	5	Quaker Steak and Lube Dusted Ghost Pepper	Quaker Steak and Lube
11,600 SHU	5	El Yucateco XXXtra Hot Habanero	El Yucateco
11,000 SHU	5	Crazy Jerry’s Brain Damage
10,950 SHU	5	Pain is Good Batch 114 Jamaican Style Hot Sauce	Spicin Foods (Original Juan)
10,100 SHU	5	Shaquanda's Hot Pepper Sauce
10,000 SHU	5	Fire and Spice	Spicin Foods (Original Juan)
9,450 SHU	5	Orange Krush Habanero Hot Sauce
9,410 SHU	5	Pain is Good Habanero Hot Sauce	Spicin Foods (Original Juan)
8,910 SHU	5	El Yucateco Green Chile Habanero	El Yucateco
8,560 SHU	5	Pain is Good Batch 37 Garlic Style Hot Sauce	Spicin Foods (Original Juan)
8,000 SHU	5	Flying Goose Sriracha Sauce Extra Hot	Flying Goose
8,000 SHU	5	TABASCO® Brand Pepper Habanero Hot Sauce	McIlhenny
6,240 SHU	5	Crazy Mother Pucker’s Liquid Lava Sauce
6,000 SHU	5	Scorned Woman Hot Sauce
5,800 SHU	5	El Yucateco Red Chile Habanero	El Yucateco
5,400 SHU	5	El Yucateco Caribbean Habanero	El Yucateco
5,000 SHU	5	Quaker Steak & Lube Buckeye BBQ Wing Sauce	Quaker Steak and Lube
4,000 SHU	4	Crystal Pure - Louisiana Original Hot Sauce
3,880 SHU	4	Pain is Good Batch 218 Louisiana Style Hot Sauce	Spicin Foods (Original Juan)
3,870 SHU	4	Quaker Steak and Lube Cajun Sauce	Quaker Steak and Lube
3,600 SHU	4	Cholula Original Hot Sauce
3,400 SHU	4	El Yucateco Chipotle Hot Sauce	El Yucateco
3,300 SHU	4	Flying Goose Sriracha Sauce	Flying Goose
3,000 SHU	3	Flying Goose Sriracha Garlic Sauce
3,000 SHU	3	Flying Goose Sriracha Lemongrass Sauce	Flying Goose
3,000 SHU	3	Flying Goose Sriracha Onion Sauce	Flying Goose
3,000 SHU	3	Tapatío Hot Sauce (Salsa Picante)
3,000 SHU	3	Quaker Steak and Lube Hot Sauce	Quaker Steak and Lube
2,800 SHU	3	Small Axe Peppers - The Chicago Red Hot Jalapeno Hot Sauce
2,750 SHU	3	The Lube's Sriracha	Quaker Steak and Lube
2,550 SHU	3	Dusted Mango Habanero	Quaker Steak and Lube
2,500 SHU	3	Sauce Bae Skinny Habanero Hot Sauce
2,500 SHU	3	TABASCO® Brand Pepper Original Hot Sauce	McIlhenny
2,200 SHU	3	Huy Fong Foods Sriracha Sauce (Rooster Sauce)
2,200 SHU	3	Trappey’s INDI-PEP Pepper Sauce
2,200 SHU	3	Trappey’s Pepper Sauce
2,100 SHU	3	Valentina Hot Sauce Black Label
2,050 SHU	3	Quaker Steak and Lube Best Wings Arizona Ranch Sauce	Quaker Steak and Lube
2,030 SHU	3	Quaker Steak and Lube Golden Garlic Wing Sauce	Quaker Steak and Lube
2,000 SHU	2	Frank's RedHot® XTRA Hot Sauce
2,000 SHU	2	TABASCO® Brand Pepper Chipotle Sauce	McIlhenny
2,000 SHU	2	TABASCO® Brand Pepper Sriracha Sauce	McIlhenny
2,000 SHU	2	Trappey’s Chef Magic Jalapeno Sauce
1,935 SHU	2	Quaker Steak and Lube Haute Parm	Quaker Steak and Lube
1,850 SHU	2	Quaker Steak and Lube Thai R Cracker Wing Sauce	Quaker Steak and Lube
1,800 SHU	2	Hot Ones - The Classic Hot Sauce
1,600 SHU	2	TABASCO® Brand Pepper Garlic Sauce	McIlhenny
1,600 SHU	2	Trappey’s MEXI-PEP Louisiana Hot Sauce
1,500 SHU	2	Quaker Steak and Lube Dusted Salt & Vinegar	Quaker Steak and Lube
1,440 SHU	2	Quaker Steak and Lube Medium Wing Sauce	Quaker Steak and Lube
1,400 SHU	2	Thaisian	Quaker Steak and Lube
1,400 SHU	2	Trappey’s Bull Brand Louisiana Hot Sauce
1,400 SHU	2	Trappey’s Louisiana Hot Sauce
1,250 SHU	2	El Yucateco Jalapeno Hot Sauce	El Yucateco
1,250 SHU	2	Quaker Steak and Lube Smoked Jalapeño Honey Wing Sauce	Quaker Steak and Lube
1,220 SHU	2	Quaker Steak and Lube Louisiana Lickers Wing Sauce	Quaker Steak and Lube
1,1180 SHU	2	Pain is Good Jalapeno Hot Sauce	Spicin Foods (Original Juan)
1,130 SHU	2	Boom Boom	Quaker Steak and Lube
1,000 SHU	1	Cholula Chipotle Hot Sauce
1,000 SHU	1	Cholula Garlic Hot Sauce
1,000 SHU	1	TABASCO® Brand Pepper Green Jalapeño Sauce	McIlhenny
1,000 SHU	1	Trappey’s Red Devil Cayenne Pepper Sauce
930 SHU	1	Asian Sesame	Quaker Steak and Lube
900 SHU	1	Cholula Green Pepper Hot Sauce
900 SHU	1	Dusted Chipotle BBQ	Quaker Steak and Lube
870 SHU	1	Parmesan Pepper Sauce	Quaker Steak and Lube
900 SHU	1	Valentina Hot Sauce Red
851 SHU	1	Pain is Good Chipotle Hot Sauce	Spicin Foods (Original Juan)
800 SHU	1	Taco Bell Lava Sauce
750 SHU	1	Texas Pete’s Hot Sauce
725 SHU	1	Ott's Original Wing Sauce
700 SHU	1	Bee Sting Honey N’ Habanero Hot Sauce
600 SHU	1	Cholula Chili Lime Hot Sauce
600 SHU	1	TABASCO® Brand Pepper Buffalo Style Hot Sauce	McIlhenny
450 SHU	1	Frank’s Red Hot
450 SHU	1	Original Louisiana Hot Sauce
425 SHU	1	Iguana Cayenne Red Pepper Sauce
300 SHU	1	TABASCO® Brand Pepper Raspberry Chipotle Sauce	McIlhenny
300 SHU	1	TABASCO® Brand Pepper Sweet and Spicy Pepper Sauce	McIlhenny
110 SHU	1	Quaker Steak and Lube Kentucky Bourbon	Quaker Steak and Lube
100 SHU	1	Dusted Tex Mex Ranch	Quaker Steak and Lube
90 SHU	1	Quaker Steak and Lube Original Barbecue Wing Sauce	Quaker Steak and Lube

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