The Hot Ones Challenge (10 hot sauces)

Tapatío is a classic in the hot sauce world. Especially in the West and South of America people love this Mexican (it was created by Mexicans) hot sauce. It's allround and has an outstanding quality for this low price.

Origin: California, USA.

Content: 148 ml

This Dawson's Shawarma Hot Sauce (also known from Hot Ones season 13) is, as you might expect, the perfect sauce for your favorite shawarma dishes. Ofcourse that's not the only dish you can use this delicious creamy sauce for. With lots of garlic and a touch of honey this also goes great on chicken and sandwiches. Cayenne peppers, red chilli peppers and some chilli powder provide this sauce with a light medium heat. Conclusion: Awesome stuff!

Origin: Hamilton, Ontario (Canada)

Content: 148 ml

This is the Piko Peppers Piko Riko hot sauce and before we do our little story about it, we just want to quote Hot Ones host Sean Evans. This is what he said about Piko Riko: "I don't give compliments like that, but when I tasted this sauce I immediately thought: top 5 hot sauces I've ever tasted!" And that comes from someone who has already tasted hundreds of different hot sauces. It's also just a super tasty piri piri style hot sauce with bell peppers, onions, lots of garlic, habaneros, cayenne peppers and even beer. In terms of smell and flavour, it is almost reminiscent of pizza in a bottle, so it will not surprise you that this hot sauce is great with pizza & pasta, but also with chicken, tacos and much more.

Origin: Montreal, Canada

Content: 148 ml

Secret Aardvark Habanero Hot Sauce might be the most popular hot sauce of America and is now exclusively available at Heatsupply. This beautifully smooth Habanero sauce has a delicious Caribean / Tex-Mex flavor and goes well with absolutely everything. A must have for every hot sauce lover, but also a perfect hot sauce to start your hot sauce addiction.

Origin: Portland, Oregon (USA)

Content: 236 ml

This sauce was on season 4 of Hot Ones.

Dirty Dick's Hot Sauce might be an agressive name for a sauce, but it's one of the most delicious ones out there. The bottle says it all: hot pepper sauce with a tropical twist. It gets that twist from the mangos, pineapple and bananas. The perfect balance between flavor and heat. This hot sauce is also known from the YouTube show Hot Ones.

Origin: Vermont (USA)

Content: 147ml

This Heartbeat Scorpion Hot Sauce is the hottest and newest sauce of Canada's most popular hot sauce brand. They used 3 peppers to make it their spiciest ever: Habaneros, Chipotle and ofcourse the Trinidad Scorpion. This creates a flavor in which the peppers take center stage. The beets give it a sweet touch at the very beginning, but that disappears quickly to make room for the heat of the peppers, the smokyness of the Chipotle and the tartness of the vinegar. Another great sauce from Heartbeat that goes well with just about anything that can use some extra heat!

• Origin: Thunder Bay, Ontario (Canada)
• Content: 177 ml

Do you like savoury flavors and mushrooms? Then look no further than this Torchbearer Mushroom Mayhem hot sauce, because this sauce is so savoury that you would almost think it contains steak (despite the fact that it is vegan). This is mainly due to the shiitake and portobello mushrooms that are in it, which of course also provides a serious dose of umami flavour. This hot sauce is also a bit sweet due to the addition of both brown sugar and molasses. In terms of heat, you're all set with habaneros & scorpion peppers. A great hot sauce to go with, you guessed it, steak! But try it on wings, burgers or tofu as well!

• Origin: Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania (USA)
• Content: 142 gr

Don't be fooled by the list of ingredients and the Scoville score (135.000) of Da Bomb Beyond Insanity hot sauce. It might seem that this sauce won't be too hot, compared to sauces with hotter peppers in it, but it truely is an absolute bomb. We'd rather call this an experience sauce, which you have to try once. The flavour isn't great (we'll be honest about that), but the heat is something else.

• Origin: Kansas (USA)
• Net weight: 113 gram

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This Karma Burn After Eating is an extraordinary hot sauce. Not just because it was on Hot Ones or because it contains ingredients such as ajwain seed, amchoor and hing powder, but especially because the brand keeps the mix of extremely hot peppers a secret. What they do guarantee is that the sauce is scorching hot. So, who dares?

Origin: Bristol, New York (USA)

Content: 148 ml

Hellfire Fiery Fool is one of the hottest sauces in the world without chili extract. For a long time they even claimed to be the hottest, but they now say their Hellfire Doomed is the hottest sauce in the world. This does not alter the fact that Fiery Fool is still extremely hot. The 4 main ingredients of this sauce are all super hots: 7-pot primo, Carolina Reaper, Bhut Jolokia and Trinidad Scorpion. Super hot, but also super tasty with the focus on the taste of the peppers!

Origin: Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (USA)

Content: 148 ml