Sean Evans, host of First We Feast’s popular YouTube web series Hot Ones.
Hot Ones is a YouTube sensation that has taken the internet by storm. It is produced by First We Feast and Complex Media and is hosted by Sean Evans.
First debuting in March 2015 the show’s format consists of host Sean Evans interviewing a celebrity guest while both eat 10 chicken wings, each served with a progressively hotter hot sauce and culminating in The Last Dab, a sauce created by Hot Ones with a Scoville rating of more than 2,000,000 SHU. The Last Dab was developed by legendary chilehead Smokin’ Ed Currie of PuckerButt Pepper Co., the creator of the infamous Carolina Reaper, the world’s hottest pepper.
The show’s tagline, as stated by Evans at the beginning of each episode, is “The show with hot questions, and even hotter wings.”
As of 2 July 2025 there has been twenty six complete seasons of Hot Ones produced with a total of 369 episodes. In 2018 Hot Ones won Best Non-Fiction Series at the Streamy Awards and the episodes on YouTube have been viewed more than a billion times in total.
The Season 27 Lineup of Hot Ones hot sauces was announced on 15 May 2025, with the first episode of Hot Ones Season 27 scheduled to premiering on Thursday, 22 May with Aaron Paul as the first celebrity guest of the new series.
Each season the lineup of hot sauces is changed with new sauces introduced, although some sauces have appeared in multiple seasons, notably Mad Dog 357, Blair’s Mega Death Sauce, Hot Ones The Classic Hot Sauce, Hot Ones Los Calientes Hot Sauce, Da’ Bomb Beyond Insanity and, of course, the sauce in the perennial ten spot, Hot Ones The Last Dab.
You can check out all the Hot Ones episodes on YouTube here: Hot Ones on YouTube
In November 2019 Hot Ones: The Game Show, also hosted by Sean Evans, was announced by WarnerMedia’s TruTV with a release date scheduled for early 2020. The first episode was broadcast on 18 February 2020.
Hot Ones: The Game Show takes place in “The Pepperdome” where two-person teams of contestants go head to head, competing through three rounds of pop-culture trivia questions while also eating hot wings. The winning team then moves to the final round, “The Ring of Fire”, where they play a password game in the hope of winning the $25,000 grand prize.
Three new hot sauces were created especially for Hot Ones: The Game Show; Brain Burner, Eye of the Scorpion and The Constrictor. Heatonist enlisted tattoo artists Natalia Garcia Briceno, Matthew Henning and BJ Betts to bring to life the label art for each of the three sauces.
On a scale of 1-10, Brain Burner rates an 8, Eye of the Scorpion a 9 and The Constrictor a 10. Initially, Heatonist did not announce official Scoville ratings for these three new hot sauces. However, a year after its release, Eye of the Scorpion was added to the Hot Ones Season 14 Lineup in the number nine spot with a Scoville rating of 676,000 SHU.
Below we have assembled a complete list of all the hot sauces featured on the Hot Ones YouTube series, along with their rating in Scoville Heat Units (SHU). Many of these sauces are available for purchase at Sauce Mania.
Hot Ones Season 27 is here! The second season of 2025 has finally arrived and it promises to be a memorable one.
With 2025 being the 10th anniversary year the folks at Hot Ones are changing things up a little and have released a completely new concept reveal video with a group of Hot Ones Superfans and amateur Spice Lords not only introducing the new hot sauce lineup but sampling the new sauces on chicken wings as well. It is a ...
2025 is here baby. 2024 is no more and the new year means that a new season of Hot Ones is ready to come out of the gate all guns blazing.
2025 marks the 10th anniversary of Hot Ones so this season marks the beginning of a year of celebration for the Hot Ones family worldwide, so no doubt there are going to be plenty of surprises along the way. Season 26 is just the beginning.
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September is here at last, and it's time for the final Hot Ones season of 2024. It's been a great year, and I'm sure that Season 25 will see out 2024 in spectacular fashion. All the ingredients are there for some great celebrity interviews and the sauces below look set to stir things up in a BIG way.
Here's what Sean had to say about the Season 25 Hot Ones lineup:
Hot Ones The Classi...
With Season 23 in the bag, it's time for another spicy season of celebrity guests taking on the legendary Hot Ones gauntlet for the amusement of us closet sadists. Cue Season 24. I know why you're here, so lets get started.
Here's what Sean had to say about the Season 24 Hot Ones lineup:
Hot Ones The Classic Garlic Fresno Hot Sauce
Here we are again. New year, new Season of Hot Ones. 2024 is finally here and it's time to find out what hot sauces are going to be tormenting the celebrity guests of Hot Ones Season 23. Some hot sauce makers from previous seasons are back again, and we have plenty of first timers to keep things fresh and interesting.
Here's what Sean had to say about the Hot Ones Season 23 hot sauce lineup:
With the year rapidly coming to an end, it's time for one more season of Hot Ones before we bid farewell to 2023 and welcome the new year. Season 22 promises to be a memorable Hot Ones season with some familiar sauce makers in the lineup and some exciting newcomers making their first ever appearance. In the words of Sean Evans, "As always we have a collection of indie sauce makers who not only make delicious hot sauces but are also an amazing, tight-knit group of people."...
It's May and that means it's time for a new season of Hot Ones and time for a brand new lineup of hot sauces. Some familiar sauce makers are back with exciting new sauces and there are some new sauce makers making their Hot Ones debut in Season 21.
This season is going to be hotter than the last. As Sean said in the Season 21 reveal, "Now in my experience, the summertime lineup is usually the hottest. We've shot a couple of epis...
2023 is here! And you all know what that means. As the saying goes, "New Year, New Tears". That's right a new season of Hot Ones and not just any Season but Season 20. Sean is back for the 20th time with a fresh, lineup of some of the most unique, tastiest and spiciest hot sauces on the planet.
Here is what's in store for the first Hot Ones Season of 2023.
2022 is slowly drawing to a close and there is just enough time for one more season of Hot Ones before the new year.
Sean Evans has just announced the new hot lineup for the upcoming Season 19 of Hot Ones and it looks like it might be Hot Ones' tastiest season ever with a real focus on flavour as well as heat.
As Sean explains:
Yes, it's that time again folks. A new season of Hot Ones is upon us. It's time to start grilling some chicken wings and gathering up your hot sauces in anticipation of another season of celebrity humiliation at the hands of a new lineup of hot sauces from makers both old and new. There's something for everyone in the ten hot sauces that constitute the Season 18 Hot Sauce Lineup, so keep reading for the lowdown on the new sauce...
It's 2022 and by now you all know the drill. New year, new season of your favourite YouTube series, Hot Ones!
Sean Evans has just revealed the Season 17 Hot Ones lineup of sauces and there are a number of familiar hot sauce makers among this season's hot sauces. There are also some exciting newcomers, including one from the land Down Under. Season 17 is looking very promising indeed.
That's right folks, it's that time again. Time for a brand new season of Hot Ones and time for a new lineup of Hot Ones hot sauces.
Season 16 of Hot Ones is just around the corner, so it's time to get familiar with the front end hot sauces that will be luring all the new celebrity guests into a false sense of security, and the back end hot sauces that will be making them wish they never agreed to appear on Hot Ones in the first...
Hello Sales,
I am Tim Rauch, Purchasing Manager at Pappas Restaurant Inc.
We are interested in purchasing some of the products your company offers as listed below.
* Ground Chili Hot Peppers
* Hot Sauces
Please advise on pricing, packaging and availability for bulk purchase including the necessary steps in setting up a corporate account with your company.
Looking forward to your earliest response.
Thanks for your time in advance.
Tim.
The last dab has wonderful flavor but the heat massively exaggerated.
Despite only having 357,000 Scoville’s mad dog 357 is hotter than everything else on this list that I have tried. Da Bomb Ground Zero is easily hotter than the last dab as the next tier up from from Beyond Insanity. I’ve only had the hot ones partnered “da bomb evolution” and that is more comparable to the last dab.
I have learned to never trust the Scoville scale beyond the most basic of guidelines for general heat.
If they want to get some real heat go try The Source over 7million SVU and see who will survive the heat. I had it twice when it came out but I’m used to spicy stuff
My husband bought a three pack of the Hot Ones hot sauce couple of weeks ago. The three pack has the Classic, Buffalo and Last Dab hot sauce. I was a little nervous to try the Last Dab hot sauce because of all the crying and hysterical celebrities barely able to speak but I’m Portuguese and was brought up with pickled hot peppers for lunch and dinner and those peppers were waaaaay hotter than the last dab! Tonight I poured almost half the bottle on my mashed potatoes (by accident) and just ate them anyway. No crying, no mumbling weird things. These Hot Ones hot sauces are yummy definitely….but not spicy enough to cry and freak out! Great acting to those who “couldn’t handle it”! 🤣
I can’t believe the hottest sauce on the planet with flavor has never been on the show. Frank’s hot sauce is the best hot sauce on the planet. End of story.
Frank Sauce is not hot, this show is about a sauce that is hot and each time getting hotter. Frank’s is a nice flavour sauce for some buffalo wings and that it. You could drink that out of the nitrile with no burn.
This show is about a sauce that is hot and each time getting hotter. Frank’s is a nice flavour sauce for some buffalo wings and that it. You could drink that out of the nitrile with no burn.
Just wondering why you all never had Blair’s ultra death sauce on the show it claims to be 1,000,000 on the scale and it’s pretty hot. Lack of flavor though. I love the face that the bottle comes in a coffin shaped box. But it could be number 9 and is hotter than the mega death sauce. Oh and I love the show can’t wait to try the last dab. Any of them.
Just got some of the Pringles with Los Calientes with it (Hot Ones teamed up with them for it I guess) they are really good! I think they should release a lineup of Pringles with some of the more popular Hot Ones sauces. That would be killer!!!
Curious as to the selection process. For example, why was Blair’s Megadeath sauce cut from the lineup? I understand removing it from position #10 as the Apollo sauces eclipse its 550k strength. But replacements have a similar rating and there are still so many much weaker rated sauces in the lineup. Is perhaps a part of the lineup a kickback from the companies towards a sponsorship and Blair’s pulled out? Was there some politics?
Hello Sales,
I am Tim Rauch, Purchasing Manager at Pappas Restaurant Inc.
We are interested in purchasing some of the products your company offers as listed below.
* Ground Chili Hot Peppers
* Hot Sauces
Please advise on pricing, packaging and availability for bulk purchase including the necessary steps in setting up a corporate account with your company.
Looking forward to your earliest response.
Thanks for your time in advance.
Tim.
The last dab has wonderful flavor but the heat massively exaggerated.
Despite only having 357,000 Scoville’s mad dog 357 is hotter than everything else on this list that I have tried. Da Bomb Ground Zero is easily hotter than the last dab as the next tier up from from Beyond Insanity. I’ve only had the hot ones partnered “da bomb evolution” and that is more comparable to the last dab.
I have learned to never trust the Scoville scale beyond the most basic of guidelines for general heat.
If they want to get some real heat go try The Source over 7million SVU and see who will survive the heat. I had it twice when it came out but I’m used to spicy stuff
My husband bought a three pack of the Hot Ones hot sauce couple of weeks ago. The three pack has the Classic, Buffalo and Last Dab hot sauce. I was a little nervous to try the Last Dab hot sauce because of all the crying and hysterical celebrities barely able to speak but I’m Portuguese and was brought up with pickled hot peppers for lunch and dinner and those peppers were waaaaay hotter than the last dab! Tonight I poured almost half the bottle on my mashed potatoes (by accident) and just ate them anyway. No crying, no mumbling weird things. These Hot Ones hot sauces are yummy definitely….but not spicy enough to cry and freak out! Great acting to those who “couldn’t handle it”! 🤣
Right! I tried the last dab and didn’t even flinch. I’d say the Queen Majesty Sicilian one was way way hotter. All had good flavor.
Why haven’t they tried Da Bomb Ground Zero yet?
Frank hot sauce? It’s about heat and that is not hot! Lol
Have you ever considered featuring Paulman Acre hot sauce? Don’t Pear the Reaper is pretty hot.
I can’t believe the hottest sauce on the planet with flavor has never been on the show. Frank’s hot sauce is the best hot sauce on the planet. End of story.
Frank Sauce is not hot, this show is about a sauce that is hot and each time getting hotter. Frank’s is a nice flavour sauce for some buffalo wings and that it. You could drink that out of the nitrile with no burn.
This show is about a sauce that is hot and each time getting hotter. Frank’s is a nice flavour sauce for some buffalo wings and that it. You could drink that out of the nitrile with no burn.
me realising i had something over 2 million scoville heat units.
same lol rip
Just wondering why you all never had Blair’s ultra death sauce on the show it claims to be 1,000,000 on the scale and it’s pretty hot. Lack of flavor though. I love the face that the bottle comes in a coffin shaped box. But it could be number 9 and is hotter than the mega death sauce. Oh and I love the show can’t wait to try the last dab. Any of them.
Just got some of the Pringles with Los Calientes with it (Hot Ones teamed up with them for it I guess) they are really good! I think they should release a lineup of Pringles with some of the more popular Hot Ones sauces. That would be killer!!!
Curious as to the selection process. For example, why was Blair’s Megadeath sauce cut from the lineup? I understand removing it from position #10 as the Apollo sauces eclipse its 550k strength. But replacements have a similar rating and there are still so many much weaker rated sauces in the lineup. Is perhaps a part of the lineup a kickback from the companies towards a sponsorship and Blair’s pulled out? Was there some politics?
Why is the last dab listed with 1 million and then with 2 million?
Reread the names. They’re two different sauces. One is the original, the other is “redux” with a different recipe.
It’s not yet officially decided what it is. They are testing it right now.
*100,000