Hot Ones is a YouTube sensation that has taken the internet by storm. It is produced by First We Feast and Complex Media and is hosted by Sean Evans.
First debuting in March 2015 the show’s format consists of host Sean Evans interviewing a celebrity guest while both eat 10 chicken wings, each served with a progressively hotter hot sauce and culminating in The Last Dab, a sauce produced by Hot Ones themselves with a Scoville rating of 2,000,000+ units. The Last Dab was developed by legendary chilehead Smokin’ Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Co., the creator of the infamous Carolina Reaper, the world’s hottest pepper.
The show’s tagline, stated by Evans at the beginning of each episode, is “The show with hot questions, and even hotter wings.”
As of 21 May 2022 there has been seventeen seasons of Hot Ones produced with a total of 254 episodes. In 2018 Hot Ones won Best Non-Fiction Series at the Streamy Awards and the episodes on YouTube have been viewed more than a billion times in total.
The Season 18 Lineup of Hot Ones hot sauces was announced by Sean Evans on 20 May 2022 with the first episode of Hot Ones Season 18 scheduled to premiere on Thursday, 26 May.
Each season the lineup of hot sauces is changed with new sauces introduced, although some sauces have appeared in multiple seasons, notably Mad Dog 357, Blair’s Mega Death Sauce, Hot Ones The Classic Hot Sauce, Hot Ones Los Calientes Hot Sauce, Da’ Bomb Beyond Insanity and, of course, the sauce in the perennial ten spot, Hot Ones The Last Dab.
You can check out all the Hot Ones episodes on YouTube here: Hot Ones on YouTube
In November 2019 Hot Ones: The Game Show, also hosted by Sean Evans, was announced by WarnerMedia’s TruTV with a release date scheduled for early 2020. The first episode was broadcast on 18 February 2020.
Hot Ones: The Game Show takes place in “The Pepperdome” where two-person teams of contestants go head to head, competing through three rounds of pop-culture trivia questions while also eating hot wings. The winning team then moves to the final round, “The Ring of Fire”, where they play a password game in the hope of winning the $25,000 grand prize.
Three new hot sauces were created especially for Hot Ones: The Game Show; Brain Burner, Eye of the Scorpion and The Constrictor. Heatonist enlisted tattoo artists Natalia Garcia Briceno, Matthew Henning and BJ Betts to bring to life the label art for each of the three sauces.
On a scale of 1-10, Brain Burner rates an 8, Eye of the Scorpion a 9 and The Constrictor a 10. Initially, Heatonist did not announce official Scoville ratings for these three new hot sauces. However, a year after its release, Eye of the Scorpion was added to the Hot Ones Season 14 Lineup in the number nine spot with a Scoville rating of 676,000 SHU.
Below we have assembled a complete list of all the hot sauces featured on the Hot Ones YouTube series, along with their rating in Scoville Heat Units (SHU). Many of these sauces are available for purchase at Sauce Mania.
Hot Ones Hot Sauces Season Sixteen
| # | Hot Sauce | Scoville Rating (SHU) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot Ones The Classic Hot Sauce | 1,700 |
| 2 | Yellowbird Bliss & Vinegar Hot Sauce | 6,200 |
| 3 | Hoff & Pepper Hoffs House Sauce Hot Sauce | 14,500 |
| 4 | Hot Ones Los Calientes Verde Hot Sauce | 36,000 |
| 5 | Hot Heads Official Revolutionary Hot Sauce | 57,000 |
| 6 | Señor Lechuga .718 Hot Sauce | 67,000 |
| 7 | Chile Lengua De Fuego Bhutila Fire Hot Sauce | 118,000 |
| 8 | Da Bomb Beyond Insanity Hot Sauce | 135,600 |
| 9 | Hellfire Hot Sauce Kranked Hot Sauce | 699,000 |
| 10 | Hot Ones The Last Dab Apollo Hot Sauce | 2,000,000+ |
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.
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.
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.
Hot Ones Hot Sauces Season Thirteen
| # | Hot Sauce | Scoville Rating (SHU) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot Ones The Classic Garlic Fresno Hot Sauce | 1,700 |
| 2 | Dawson’s Shawarma Sauce | 4,200 |
| 3 | Shaquanda’s West Indian Curry Hot Sauce | 14,000 |
| 4 | Angry Goat Pepper Co. Goat Rider Hot Sauce | 43,500 |
| 5 | Hot Ones Los Calientes Rojo Hot Sauce | 49,000 |
| 6 | Heartbeat Hot Sauce Scorpion Hot Sauce | 66,000 |
| 7 | Hellfire Detroit Bourbon Habanero Ghost Hot Sauce | 89,000 |
| 8 | Da Bomb Beyond Insanity Hot Sauce | 135,600 |
| 9 | Puckerbutt Pepper Company Chipotle Express Hot Sauce | 669,000 |
| 10 | Hot Ones The Last Dab Apollo Hot Sauce | 2,000,000+ |
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