If you love some spice in your life, only the hottest hot sauces in the world will do. However, as you’ll quickly learn, there’s a fine line between “hot sauce” and pure chilli extract (capsaicin oleoresin). As such, we’ve ignored the extracts and selected only bottles that either blend that extract with other ingredients or toss it to the side altogether. Still, some of these sauces lean on the side of ‘food additive’, so if you’re buying to test your skill level, put your health first and follow the instructions provided by the brand. Ultimately, for those who like to take that kick to the extreme, this list is for you. We’ve found the hottest hot sauces in the world, so let’s check them out.
Hottest Hot Sauces at a Glance
Highlights from our list include the following options:
- World’s hottest hot sauce: Wiltshire Chilli Farm Regret Hot Sauce
- Tastiest hot sauce: The Last Dab Xperience
- Funniest hottest hot sauce name: Bumblefoot’s Bumblef**ked Hot Sauce
Now you’ve read our favourites, let’s check out the complete list.
Table of contents
- Hottest Hot Sauces at a Glance
- 1. Wiltshire Chilli Farm Regret Hot Sauce
- 2. Hellfire Re-Booted Double Doomed
- 3. Wiltshire Chilli Farm God Slayer Hot Sauce
- 4. Pepper Palace The End: Flatline Hot Sauce
- 5. CaJohns Black Mamba 6 Get Bitten Hot Sauce
- 6. Bumblefoot’s Bumblef**ked Hot Sauce
- 7. Z Nothing Beyond Extremely Hot Sauce
- 8. CaJohns Lethal Ingestion Bhut Jolokia Hot Sauce
- 9. The Last Dab Xperience
- 10. Wicked Reaper Carolina Hot Sauce
- 11. Stinger Scorpion Pepper Sauce
- 12. CaJohns Hydra 7-Pot Primo
- Alternatives to These Hot Sauces
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1. Wiltshire Chilli Farm Regret Hot Sauce
Price: from AU$40
- Scoville Units: 12 Million Scoville Heat Units (with extract)
Even though extract is used in this hot sauce for heat purposes, Regret from Wiltshire Chilli Farm has an actual flavour, which is quite impressive. We consider it to be a ‘sauce’, and while other concoctions of pure chilli extract claim to be hotter, they’re not ‘sauce’, so by definition, we cannot include them on a list of hottest hot sauces. Like most top dogs on our list, Wiltshire Chilli Farm Regret Hot Sauce combines oleoresin (a resin-like substance from extracting spice with a hydrocarbon solvent) with garlic, lime juice, and other flavours.
Simply put, Regret is the hottest hot sauce in the world. Try it on your own, and you’ll rush to the fridge, cry for milk, and then curl up into a small, insignificant ball of regret. However, if you must try it, you’ll enjoy it with a plate of chilli con carne, meatballs, or curry. Whatever you do, try a toothpick worth first.
Ingredients: Tomato, cider vinegar, garlic, bourbon, lime juice, reaper chilli, habanero, 12 million Scoville oleoresin, salt, herbs.
2. Hellfire Re-Booted Double Doomed
Price: from AU$39
- Scoville Units: 6.6 Million Scoville Heat Units (with extract)
Hotheads (enthusiasts) might turn their noses to such a cranky hot sauce because of its extract use. However, Hellfire has claimed to have created something special with the re-booted edition of their double doomed, calling it the best-tasting extract-enhanced sauce in the world! We’re not game enough to try it (for obvious reasons, it’s 6.6 Million SHU), but looking at the ingredients list will tell you they’ve put some thought into this concoction. Honey, pineapple, brown sugar, and ginger are not typical ingredients in a hot sauce, and with more than twenty on offer here, we think they will add plenty of flavour. Just be careful of the ramp-up. It’s a slow and punishing burn!
Ingredients: Brown Sugar (cane sugar and molasses), Apricot Purée Concentrate, Tomato Paste, Pepper Extract, Pineapple (pineapple, pineapple juice), Distilled Vinegar, Honey, Vegan Worcestershire Sauce (apple cider vinegar diluted with water to 8% acidity, water, soy sauce , pure cane sugar, molasses, garlic , dry mustard, onion powder, ginger, cinnamon and black pepper), Pure Maple Syrup, Pears (pears, water, sugar, citric acid), Water… the list goes on.
3. Wiltshire Chilli Farm God Slayer Hot Sauce
Price: from AU$25
- Scoville Units: 6.4 Million Scoville Heat Units (with extract)
Wiltshire Chilli Farm is back for seconds with its second-hottest sauce, dubbed “God Slayer.” It offers more than 6.4 Million SHU with an extract base. However, it’s not flavourless because a few layers of garlic, bourbon, and a casual ghost chilli are thrown in for good measure. It’s a worthy reminder that these extract-based ‘hot sauces’ are not for dabbing, and they’re referred to as food additives because of their dangerous heat levels. The brand recommends adding this to mayonnaise, deviled eggs, butternut curry, and loaded fries. We’ll stick with Tabasco.
Ingredients: Tomato, cider vinegar, garlic, bourbon, lime juice, reaper chilli, habanero, 9 million Scoville oleoresin, salt, herbs.
4. Pepper Palace The End: Flatline Hot Sauce
Price: from AU$40
- Scoville Units: 6 Million Scoville Heat Units (with extract)
This is an excruciating hot sauce that should not be consumed alone. The End: Flatline Hot Sauce by Pepper Palace is extremely hot but doesn’t taste very good because it mainly contains extract. We think it qualifies as a sauce because the ingredients list states it’s more than pure extract. However, it’s a scary read with reaper peppers, oleoresin capsicum, ghost peppers, scorpion peppers, and 7-pot chocolate dough peppers to round out the concoction. Why you would consume this is anyone’s guess, but curiosity has never been stronger.
Ingredients: Reaper peppers, oleoresin capsicum, water, vinegar, salt, tomato juice concentrate, ghost peppers, scorpion peppers, 7 pot chocolate douglah peppers, vitamin C, citric acid, xanthan gum
5. CaJohns Black Mamba 6 Get Bitten Hot Sauce
Price: from AU$39.95
- Scoville Units: 6 Million Scoville Heat Units (with extract)
The Get Bitten Black Mamba 6 Hot Sauce is made with a select blend of chocolate habaneros and pure capsaicin extract. This deceiving mix looks like barbecue sauce, but it will give you one hell of a burn. The Black Mamba 6 sauce is even hotter and more evil than its predecessor. According to the sauce’s makers, its mission is to bring pain with a never-ending wave of venomous fire.
Peppers: Chocolate habanero chilli, vinegar, chilli extract.
6. Bumblefoot’s Bumblef**ked Hot Sauce
Price: from AU$16.99
- Scoville Units: 6 Million Scoville Heat Units (with extract)
Bumblef**ked Hot Sauce was a collaboration between Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, a former guitarist for Guns and Roses, and CaJohns. This nuclear-level hot sauce mixes habanero peppers and pure capsaicin with ginseng and caffeine for an added kick. It’s an extract hot sauce with enough real flavour from the added ingredients to please the purists and hotheads.
Ingredients: Distilled vinegar, Habañero chiles, oleoresin of capsicum, tomato paste, honey mustard, papaya, guava, pineapple, sugar, ground ginger, caffeine, and ginseng.
7. Z Nothing Beyond Extremely Hot Sauce
Price: from AU$17.99
- Scoville Units: 4 Million Scoville Heat Units (with extract)
Z Nothing Beyond Extremely Hot Sauce is a lovely concoction of papaya, guava, pineapple, banana, and passion fruit. But that lovely fruity flavour doesn’t last long as the habaneros chillies and pure capsaicin extract kick in, leaving you in plenty of pain.
Ingredients: Vinegar, habanero peppers, 4 million SHU pepper extract, tomatoes, mustard, papaya, guava, pineapple, banana, water, sugar, passion fruit juice, and guava juice.
8. CaJohns Lethal Ingestion Bhut Jolokia Hot Sauce
Price: from AU$29.99
- Scoville Units: 2.79 Million Scoville Heat Units (lab tested, no extract)
CaJohns Lethal Ingestion Bhut Jolokia Hot Sauce is made using the Jolokia chilli, Red Savina habanero chilli, and Fatalii chilli, all of which make this one lethal concoction. This is one of the hottest non-extract hot sauces, meaning it gets its heat from actual peppers and not just from extracting the peppers’ capsaicin.
Ingredients: Fatalii chiles, Red Savina Habanero Chiles, Bhut Jolokia Chiles, and vinegar.
9. The Last Dab Xperience
Price: from AU$34
- Scoville Units: 2.693 Million Scoville Heat Units (no extract)
Put the famous YouTube show to the side for a second because Hot Ones has created one of the hottest non-extract hot sauces in the world with the help of world-class pepper scientist and farmer Smokin’ Ed Currie, who worked his magic to distil his insane Pepper X into consumable hot sauce, using 91% Pepper X in dried, fresh and all-natural distillate forms.
Ingredients: Pepper x pepper, distilled vinegar, pepper x pepper powder, pepper x pepper distillate
10. Wicked Reaper Carolina Hot Sauce
Price: from AU$80
- Scoville Units: 2.2 Million Scoville Heat Units (with extract)
There’s not much to delve into with this hot sauce, and it’s just bloody hot. Outside of that fact, it’s painful and tastes awful, and the extracted base is underperforming for something this highly rated on the SHU scale. The classic combination of tomato, garlic, and good old-fashioned Carolina Reaper chilli peppers, this time with heat over 2.2 million SHU, is overdone. We’d probably avoid this one.
Ingredients: Vinegar, Carolina Reaper chilli peppers (over 2.2 million SHU), tomato, garlic, onion, lime juice, capsaicin oleoresin, sea salt, spices.
11. Stinger Scorpion Pepper Sauce
Price: from AU$12
- Scoville Units: 2 Million Scoville Heat Units (no extract)
Stinger Scorpion Pepper Sauce is another hot sauce made by Pepper Palace, but this time, it puts the Carolina Reaper on the back burner, swapping it for the flavoursome Trinidad Moruga Stinger Scorpion. This chilli was formerly rated as “the hottest pepper in the world” in 2012. If you want to relive some of those great memories (pre-Carolina Reaper and pre-Pepper X), that’s another reason to pick up this affordable hot sauce bottle.
Ingredients: Trinidad Moruga Scorpion peppers, fresh carrots, onions, lime juice, vinegar, garlic, and salt.
12. CaJohns Hydra 7-Pot Primo
Price: from AU$20.99
- Scoville Units: 1.5 Million Scoville Heat Units (no extract)
Like the Trinidad Moruga Stinger Scorpion hot sauce above, the CaJohns Hydra 7-Pot Primo is a worthwhile addition to your collection as it uses the unique 7-Pot Primo chilli. In case you’re wondering, this is a cross between a Naga Morich and a Trinidad 7-Pot pepper. While it’s never been ‘The World’s Hottest’, this chilli still packs a punch and a kick for those who love some heat in their food with about 1.5 Million Scoville, no extract!
Ingredients: 7-pot primo chiles, distilled vinegar, cane sugar, sea salt, garlic, spices and lemon extract
Alternatives to These Hot Sauces
- The Source Hot Sauce (7.1 Million Scoville Heat Units) – from AU$239.99: The Source Hot Sauce is 1,000 times hotter than a jalapeño, as there are 100 pots of chilli in every one ounce of this stuff. The Source is to be used as a food additive only and should not be eaten straight under any circumstances. This super hot extract blend of pepper and pure capsaicin is only for the faint-hearted and should be used responsibly.
- Mad Dog 357 No. 9 Plutonium Extract (9 Million Scoville Heat Units) – from AU$244.99: Mad Dog 357 No. 9 Plutonium was (until recently) known as the hottest hot sauce on the market. This pepper extract is one of the hottest and purest in the world, containing 60% pure capsicum. A warning on the bottle says not to consume this product directly and only use it as a food additive. There’s also a disclaimer on the back that says you’re not to sue the company should you experience bodily harm.
- Texas Creek Pure Evil 13 Million SHU (13 Million Scoville Heat Units) – from AU$140: Simply put, this is the hottest liquid you can have in the world. You’ll cop more than 13 Million Scoville Heat Units from this pure capsaicin oleoresin.
