Scoville Scale Chart for Hot Sauce and Hot Peppers

I'm a chilihead. I've tried to compile the most comprehensive list of the hottest hot sauces and hot peppers on the web. If there is any hot sauce or pepper missing from this list that your think I should add, please contact me and let me know about it. I need to know the Scoville rating for each sauce suggested, as well any other helpful information and links.

Some of the items (especially the one in excess of one million Scoville units and hotter) below may not necessarily be "sauces" you apply directly on food -- they are food additives and should only be used sparingly. The very highest ones are not liquid at all. These are capsaicin extracts and are powders or crystals, as pure capsaicin comes in crystaline form.


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Please keep in mind that the Scoville heat units listed are just estimates at best. Scoville units for each sauce or pepper may vary greatly due to the seed lineage, season, climate, soil, and other conditions in which the peppers and ingredients are grown.

Comparisons to jalapeño peppers are based on an "average" of 5,000 SHU for the jalapeño, and the high end SHU for the sauce or pepper in question.

Big thanks and credits go to Wikipedia, Chez Williams' Hottest Sauces in the World List, ChilliWorld's Scoville List, and SweatNSpice.com for help with photos and data.

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