What Are The Hottest Hot Sauces In The World?

From the Editor of The Hot Sauce Collector

Easy there tiger -- before listing the hottest hot sauces, we need to layout the ground rules on how we measure the hotness of a hot sauce. Hotness is generally measured against a metric called The Scoville Scale, which is a measure of hotness in chile peppers. Chile peppers contain a chemical compound called capsaicin that generates the burning sensation associated with eating spicy food. Basically, scoville units represent the amount of capsaicin present in a hot sauce. The scoville scale is notoriously imprecise for several reasons (it was originally designed around a panel of taste testers that tasted a substance over and over again as it was being diluted until hotness was no longer detected), but it gives us a good general sense of the hotness levels of different hot sauces.

Once embarking on the journey of enjoying, collecting, and discovering new hot sauces, it is only natural to wonder what the most extreme examples of hot sauce have to offer the hot sauce collector. The editor of The Hot Sauce Collector has spent many hours searching the internet to find the hottest hot sauces in the world on behalf of hot sauce collectors everywhere. There are a number of interesting sites that discuss the hottest hot sauces in the world, but many of them seem to be out of date. So, we have taken it upon ourselves to put together this list. Behold, The Twenty Hottest Hot Sauces In The World! Scroll below to see an updated list of the 20 hottest hot sauces in the world as ranked by their claimed scoville measurement: