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 29 September 2024 there has been twenty four complete seasons of Hot Ones produced with a total of 342 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 25 Lineup of Hot Ones hot sauces was announced by Sean Evans on 19 September 2024, with the first episode of Hot Ones Season 24 scheduled to premiere on Thursday, 26 September.
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 theart 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.
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.
What is the best sweet/hot sauce?
Who makes your wings? And where can I get some of the hot ones hot sauce in the US?
Just had los calientes rojo and stargazer. They are both delicious. Stargazer has some heat.
Is there a gift pack of the Hot Ones sauces? Preferably season 11. Maybe small bottles?
Hi Simon, unfortunately we don't currently have any gift packs as we are finding it difficult to keep a lot of the sauces from Hot Ones in stock due to their popularity. However, there are quite a few still available to be purchased individually and we are expecting more back in stock in early July.
Hi! So I’m doing a hot ones challenge with my friends, I found the scoville units of every sauce except for the last 2; Eye of the Scorpion, and Culley’s Brutality. I was wondering which one was hotter between the two, and if either one was hotter than The Last Dab, just so I can line them up correctly for the challenge.
How can I order season 11 hot sauce set
I spoke with Heatonist as well about the new rating system, but they weren't very much help.
Has anyone made a conversion list?
I'm sure there must be some kind of ballpark figures ie: 1/10 = 2,500 and 10/10 = 2,000,000+
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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.
What is the best sweet/hot sauce?
Who makes your wings? And where can I get some of the hot ones hot sauce in the US?
Just had los calientes rojo and stargazer. They are both delicious. Stargazer has some heat.
Is there a gift pack of the Hot Ones sauces? Preferably season 11. Maybe small bottles?
Hi Simon, unfortunately we don't currently have any gift packs as we are finding it difficult to keep a lot of the sauces from Hot Ones in stock due to their popularity. However, there are quite a few still available to be purchased individually and we are expecting more back in stock in early July.
Hi! So I’m doing a hot ones challenge with my friends, I found the scoville units of every sauce except for the last 2; Eye of the Scorpion, and Culley’s Brutality. I was wondering which one was hotter between the two, and if either one was hotter than The Last Dab, just so I can line them up correctly for the challenge.
How can I order season 11 hot sauce set
I spoke with Heatonist as well about the new rating system, but they weren't very much help.
Has anyone made a conversion list?
I'm sure there must be some kind of ballpark figures ie: 1/10 = 2,500 and 10/10 = 2,000,000+