![]() ![]() So before dousing your next meal with a Scoville Sauce, keep in mind that a few drops is all you’ll need. It’s damn near impossible to truly enjoy a Scoville Sauce before you build up a tolerance. Watch Some of the Legends of the Chili World and Ultimate Pepper Heads in Action as They Take on the Carolina Reaper ®īefore adding Scoville sauces to your next meal, pace yourself. Our Reaper Sauce on the other hand, made with 70% Carolina Reaper ® peppers with a 1.6 Million SHU, is one of the hottest Scoville sauces you can imagine. Our Smokin Racha sauce is packed with 50% Habanero Peppers a chili pepper with an avg Scoville rating well over 250,000 SHU making it a very hot sauce that inches near Scoville Sauce territory. Most Scoville sauces, are between 200,000 SHU and 600,000 SHU. Start your journey from Mild to Wild, with a tasting adventure that gradually gets hotter with each sauce until you reach insanely hot with our Reaper Scoville Sauce. A single drop on your tongue will get you as close as you will ever get to a fire breathing dragon. ![]() Just a few drops of chili pepper extracts can be used to add extreme heat to food as well as in combat and settling old scores. So, proceed with caution when playing with these bottles of fire. Chili pepper extracts are pure, hellish capsaicin heat and can create an unbelievable and painful shock to the body if consumed in large quantities. On the fiery, inferno side of Scoville Heat Scale are Scoville sauces and chili pepper extracts. Tabasco for example, carries a mere 5,000 SHU, …child’s play. Anything less than that is just considered a regular, less adventurous hot sauce. Most people in the chili pepper community consider sauces rated between 100,000 SHU and 1 million SHU as Scoville sauces. So What Separates Hot Sauces from Scoville Sauces Our very own Carolina Reaper © created by Puckerbutt Pepper Company owner and self- proclaimed mad scientist, sets at the top of the Scoville scale for chili peppers at a scorching (1.6 Million Scoville units) The active compound in chili peppers that make them blazing hot is Pure Capsaicin, which ranks 16 million on the Scoville scale. Scoville Heat Units (SHU) is still the golden rule used when ranking the heat of hot sauces and chili peppers. And today, people sample Scoville sauces for fun, (here’s looking at you Pepper Heads!). ![]() Today, measuring the Scoville heat of sauces and the chili peppers they’re derived from has become much more accurate like the laboratory tests used by the Guinness World Record to measure Smokin Ed’s ® Carolina Reaper ® and declare it the hottest pepper in the world. Wilbur’s mission was to measure the heat of chili peppers by providing samples of chili peppers and capsaicin extracts and measuring how diluted a sample needed to be in order for people to consume it without pain. The method to measure the heat found in chili peppers was created back in 1912 by Pharmacist and Pepper Head, Wilbur Scoville. The Scoville scale rates the heat of chili peppers. So, to answer the question of how big of a Pepper Head you are, start by seeing where are your tolerance lands on the Scoville Scale. These Scoville Sauces and hot peppers aren’t for the faint of heart and should come with a serious warning before making their way to your table. And, hot sauces just keep getting hotter, thanks in part to trail blazers like Puckerbutt Pepper Company’s Smokin’ Ed Currie ® and his quest to continue to create the world’s hottest peppers and pack them into the hottest sauces imaginable. Some have been known to go into an otherworldly, hallucinogenic state when eating too much too fast. ![]() There are hot sauces and then there are Scoville sauces that are so ridiculously hot that you’ll cry when you eat them. ![]()
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