Hot Ones Hot Sauce Guide: List, Scoville, Buy Official

If you’ve ever watched a celebrity power through a plate of wings while fighting back tears, you’ve seen Hot Ones in action. The viral YouTube show pairs heat-hungry guests with ten progressively hotter sauces, and fans have been scrambling to buy the lineup ever since. This guide maps every Scoville rating from Season 1 through the current Season 29, shows you exactly where to get the real bottles, and flags which retailers actually stock the full range in the UK.

Total Seasons Featured: 23+ ·
Hottest Sauce Scoville: 2,000,000+ ·
Official Retailers: Heatonist, First We Feast ·
UK Availability: Hop Burns & Black, Bauce Brothers

What hot sauces are used in Hot Ones?

Hot Ones runs a consistent format: ten sauces per season, ordered from mild to blow-your-face hot. The lineup shifts every year, though certain brands like Los Calientes and Da’ Bomb have become recurring fan favorites. Sauce Mania maintains the most complete cross-season catalogue with verified Scoville ratings for each entry.

Season 23 lineup

Season 23 closed with La Pimenterie Forbidden Fruit at 124,000 SHU as the hottest entry. The season followed the established pattern of mixing established craft brands with newer entrants from small-batch producers. Heatonist’s official season pages include tasting cards that describe each sauce’s flavor profile beyond just heat.

Full list from all seasons

Across more than two dozen seasons, the show has featured over 200 unique sauce entries. Season 1 opened with Texas Pete Original Hot Sauce at 747 SHU and peaked at Da’ Bomb Beyond Insanity at 135,600 SHU. Season 29 currently opens with Microsaucerie Piko Peppers Garlic Delight at 1,900 SHU and #2 is Pickled Garlic Sriracha, per the Hot Ones Official storefront. Da’ Bomb Beyond Insanity has reappeared in multiple late-season packs at Hop Burns & Black, suggesting the producers value that particular benchmark.

Can I buy the sauces from Hot Ones?

Yes, the sauces are commercially available — just not through typical grocery shelves in most markets. Heatonist serves as the show’s official retail partner, stocking individual bottles and season packs with tasting cards. First We Feast runs the direct-to-consumer store that sells the Season 29 ten-pack with heat guide and stickers.

Official Hot Ones Store

The official store at hotones.com carries the current season’s 10-pack alongside archive selections. Every bottle ships directly from the production team, which means you’re getting the exact sauces used on camera. Prices run higher than grocery-store hot sauces, but the authenticity is guaranteed.

Heatonist collection

Heatonist organizes their Hot Ones inventory by season, making it easy to hunt down specific past favorites. Heatonist’s season archive lets you browse every lineup from Season 1 through 29. They also carry individual bottles if you only want one or two without committing to a full season pack.

Can you get hot ones sauces in the UK?

UK-based collectors have two solid options: Hop Burns & Black and Bauce Brothers. Both retailers source directly from official suppliers, which matters when you’re trying to get the genuine article rather than a grey-market import.

UK retailers

Hop Burns & Black stocks the largest UK collection, including Season 25-27 packs at £62.95 down to £39.95 for smaller bundles. They currently list SAVIR Foods Jala Pepa and other specialty entries alongside the expected mainstays like Los Calientes and Last Dab. Bauce Brothers focuses on fast delivery across Britain with a curated selection of official Hot Ones sauces.

Ireland options

No dedicated Ireland retailer has been publicly listed, but both UK-based shops offer fast delivery that likely covers Ireland. Hop Burns & Black ships nationwide, and Bauce Brothers advertises delivery across Britain without restricting to England and Scotland alone. For certainty, contact the retailers directly about Eire shipping before placing an order.

How many Scoville units is Hot Ones hot sauce?

Hot Ones sauces span a wide heat range — from just hundreds of Scoville Heat Units in the opening rounds to over two million at the top. Lucifers House of Heat maintains an independent Scoville verification guide that cross-references producer claims against documented ratings.

Heat scale overview

The Scoville scale measures capsaicin concentration. A typical jalapeño sits around 2,500–8,000 SHU. Hot Ones starts its guests off with sauces well below that range: Hot Ones Classic Hot Sauce at 1,800 SHU and Season 24’s The Classic Garlic Fresno at 1,700 SHU. Mid-season sauces like Hot Ones Fiery Chipotle at 15,600 SHU create the first real bridge, as The Takeout notes in their season analysis. By position ten, you’re hitting six figures: Zombie Apocalypse Ghost Chili hit 100,000 SHU in Season 4, and later entries like Ginger Goat Tropic Star hit 110,000 SHU in Season 22.

Sauces in order

While exact positioning varies slightly by season, the heat arc follows a predictable curve. The first three sauces typically stay under 5,000 SHU. Positions four through seven ramp from roughly 10,000 SHU into the 50,000–80,000 range — think Sauce Leopard The Seventh Reaper at 59,000 SHU (Season 18) or Torchbearer Mushroom Mayhem at 68,000 SHU (Season 20). Spicy Shark Mako Snake at 71,000 SHU held the Season 21 finale slot. The final positions consistently break 100,000 SHU, with Da’ Bomb Beyond Insanity anchoring at 135,600 SHU across multiple early-to-mid seasons.

What is the hottest sauce ever on Hot Ones?

The Last Dab: Xperience holds the title for hottest featured sauce at 2,000,000+ SHU, according to Heatonist’s official listings. Before that, Da’ Bomb Beyond Insanity at 135,600 SHU served as the benchmark across Seasons 1 through roughly mid-20s.

Last Dab Xperience

The Last Dab: Xperience represents a collaboration between Hot Ones and chef and YouTuber Apollo Heat, trading under the “Bravfogo” label. It uses Pepper X as its base pepper, the same variety that broke the million-SHU barrier in competitive growing circles. The 2,000,000+ SHU rating placed it roughly fifteen times hotter than Da’ Bomb, and it remains the ceiling against which all subsequent finales are measured.

Is 2,000,000 Scoville hot?

Two million Scoville units is extraordinarily hot by any measure. For context, civilian-grade pepper spray sits around 2,000,000–3,000,000 SHU. The Last Dab: Xperience operates in that territory — not as a food product in any practical sense but as a capsaicin delivery mechanism designed to challenge even veteran hot-sauce collectors. Sauce Mania confirms it appeared in multiple seasons before the show shifted toward more diverse producer selections for the finale slot.

The progression from 1,700 SHU at position one to over two million at the finale represents a roughly 1,200× increase in heat intensity across the ten-sauce ladder.

Quotes

Every bottle in our Hot Ones collection is sourced directly from official suppliers, guaranteeing you’re getting the exact same sauces that reduced Gordon Ramsay to tears.

— Bauce Brothers (UK retailer)

Take home the full Hot Ones hot sauce lineup from Season 29 with 10 sauces, heat guide, and stickers.

— First We Feast (Official Producer)

Hot Ones Fiery Chipotle serves as the mid-tier bridge at 15,600 SHU, introducing guests to real heat before the upper registers kick in.

— The Takeout (Season analysis)

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