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

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.

The name Queen Majesty Red Habanero & Black Coffee already tells you it's a special hot sauce. The taste of black coffee is lightly recognizable, but it's especially the bell peppers and red habanero that make this sauce delicious. Good with pizza, falafel, sandwiches, burgers and stews.

Origin: Queens, New York, USA

Content: 147ml

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

This Karma Cosmic Disco Hot Sauce is a mix of two other great sauces: the Karma Cosmic Dumpling and the Karma Scorpion Disco. In terms of flavour, that can also be tasted, because the best of both is reflected in it. The first thing you taste is a combination of tamari and citrus (umami & sour), followed by the sweetness of the brown sugar and the intense heat of Trinidad Scorpion, Ghost Pepper & Jalapeño peppers. Delicious with your favourite Asian dishes, such as teriyaki or as a glaze with duck. That is if you can handle the heat, because this sauce was on wing #7 on Hot Ones (season 19) for a reason.

Origin: Rochester, New York (USA)

Content: 148ml

Don't be fooled by the list of ingredients and the Scoville score (135.000) of Da Bomb Beyond Insanity. 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 flavor isn't great, but the heat is overwhelming!

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

The name Hellfire Fear This already says a lot about this sauce. It's extremely spicy and according to hot sauce-expert Bill Moore one of the 3 hottest in the world without chili extracts. Not so crazy when you realize the first ingredient is Carolina Reaper peppers. Besides extremely hot it's also very tasty because of the sun dried tomatoes, garlic and different herbs. It adds depth which fans of extreme sauces are looking for.

Origin: Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (USA)

Content: 148ml

This sauce is on wing 9 of season 8 of the YouTube-show Hot Ones.