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 produced by Hot Ones themselves with a Scoville rating of 2,000,000+ units. 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 22 January 2023 there has been twenty two seasons of Hot Ones produced with a total of 314 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 23 Lineup of Hot Ones hot sauces was announced by Sean Evans on 18 January 2024, with the first episode of Hot Ones Season 23 scheduled to premiere on Thursday, 25 January.
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.
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.
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?
It's not yet officially decided what it is. They are testing it right now.
Reread the names. They’re two different sauces. One is the original, the other is “redux” with a different recipe.
*100,000
The new version of The Classic is so good and definitely spicy. Is it close to the the original version of The Last Dab?
REALLY need this in spreadsheet format, so i can sort it by heat level, or search it and have all seasons together.
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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.
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?
It's not yet officially decided what it is. They are testing it right now.
Reread the names. They’re two different sauces. One is the original, the other is “redux” with a different recipe.
*100,000
The new version of The Classic is so good and definitely spicy. Is it close to the the original version of The Last Dab?
REALLY need this in spreadsheet format, so i can sort it by heat level, or search it and have all seasons together.