The 20 Hottest Hot Sauces Will Make You Feel The Burn

Think you can handle 3 million Scoville Units? Then you need to try LD50 Hot Sauce. But maybe take this review as your warning: "Sure, it turns your guts into a wood stove. But it's delicious. Heat is intense—sharp on the tongue, warm in the stomach, rings of sweat around eyes. God help the fool who gets any into their sinuses."

This Mexican-American hot sauce "has more heat than sriracha but is the perfect substitute if you want to add an extra kick," said Ruben Rodriguez, chef and owner of Nai Restaurant Group. "Just like sriracha, it’s perfect to eat by itself or to make the perfect glaze with it."

Looking for something with lots of flavor and lots of heat? Go for this hot sauce from Bushwick Kitchen. "It is similar in texture to the famous original sriracha and can be used in all the same applications," said Andy Quinn, co-owner and executive chef of The Noortwyck in Brooklyn. "The gochujang adds an extra layer of umami due the fermentation process."

This hot sauce comes from Louisana and will be sure to add a serious kick to any dish. "Not too hot, great acidity, tang and viscosity, it finds itself in a lot of my dishes usually as a background note," said Chef John Manion at Chicago's El Che Steakhouse & Bar. "If I feel like something needs a punch, more often than not I'm reaching for Crystal."

If you need to hear the praises from a customer, just read this review: "It gives you a nice burn in the back of your throat and your entire mouth in general. Your sinuses will run," this reviewer said. "The flavor is insane in this sauce and it really is a great tasting hot sauce, perfect hot wings."

This spicy sauce is made with pod primo chilis, which have an intense heat (obviously) with a fruity taste and floral scent. It also has a nice hint of garlic and lime, prefect to spice up your tacos.

At 675,000 Scoville units, Melinda's Red Savina Pepper Hot Sauce is twice as hot as your habanero peppers, but it strikes a nice balance with the addition of carrots, vinegar, onion, and lime juice.

Widow Maker (yes, that's what's it's actually called) is no joke. Made with six of the world's hottest chilis—7 Pot, Butch T, Carolina Reaper, Moruga Scorpion, Trinidad Scorpion, and Naga Viper—this sauce is slightly balanced with some sweetness and tang of vinegar. Your mouth and throat will be on fire with just a dab.

This isn't so much a hot sauce as it is a death wish. The extract registers 9 million on the Scoville scale, and it's 60 percent pure capsicum. A bolded, all caps, red warning on the site reads: DO NOT CONSUME DIRECTLY - FOOD ADDITIVE ONLY!

There are 100 pots of chili in every one ounce of this stuff, which measures 7.1 million on the Scoville scale. The makers caution you to add it to food and not try it straight out of the bottle.

That "Six" in the name refers to the fact that this sauce is made with extract that has 6 million Scoville units (plus some chocolate habanero peppers). "It will give ya a burn for 5-10 min," one Amazon reviewer said.

Pepper Palace, the (evil) shop responsible for creating the 6 million Scoville sauce, The End, has a Wall of Flame. Post your reaction to trying this sauce on social media and tag it #WallOfFlame, and you could end up on it. One winner every month will even get $250 to the shop.

The habanero chilis in this are smack-you-in-the-face hot at 6 million Scoville, but the description also says honey mustard, Caribbean fruits, ginger and ginseng round out the taste.

We know that whole "nothing beyond" thing isn't exactly true given the other hot sauces on this list that are hotter—but a 4 million on the Scoville scale is still something worth recognizing.

Don't let the cute blue wax seal and the '90s logo fool you: This stuff registers 3.5 million on the Scoville Scale.

PuckerButt Pepper Company rates the heat of Reaper Squeezin's "painfully hot." In reality, it's 2.2 million Scoville. Do do with that what you will.

If you're here, you've probably watched "Hot Ones." You know that last sauce Sean Evans and his guest always taste? This is it—and it measures 2 million on the Scoville Scale.

Try this stuff, which clocks in at 1.5 Million Scoville—then decide if you care to reenact the scene on the bottle or not.

As if the whole "Mega Death" name wasn't enough, this sauce comes in coffin packaging with a skull keychain. Game? Prepare yourself for the 550,000 SHU sauce about to hit your tongue.

You'll find Carolina Reapers, one of the world's hottest peppers in this hot sauce, which measures between 250,000 and 1 million SHU. But it's got a hit of sweetness, too, thanks to sweet black cherries and cranberries.