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 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 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.
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...
The Hot Ones Season 15 Hot Sauce Lineup
Welcome back, baby! Yes, it's that time again. Time for a new series of Hot Ones and time for a new lineup of celebrity guests to feel the pain of the infamous Wings of Death.
In a just released YouTube video, Hot Ones host Sean Evan...
The Hot Ones Season 14 Hot Sauce Lineup
A new year means a new Hot Ones hot sauce lineup and 2021 is no different. The Season 14 sauces have just been revealed by host Sean Evans and it looks like this season may be the hottest one so far.
There's a good mix of fresh faces and familiar sau...
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.
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+
Hey Guys, In love with all the sauces you mentioned above, can I order them over phone. I know shipping will add a lot to the cost but I’m up for paying that. Thankyou
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+
Hot Ones introduced me to Heartbeat habenaro sauce out of Canada. It is by far my favorite hot sauce. Mild, but excellent flavor!
Hey Guys, In love with all the sauces you mentioned above, can I order them over phone. I know shipping will add a lot to the cost but I’m up for paying that. Thankyou
Hi Faiz, thanks for your message. Unfortunately we only ship products to Australian addresses. Sorry. 🙁
Do you have info on their “Brain Burner” sauce? I just got it in their monthly sauce box.
Unfortunately we don’t have any information yet Michael. As soon as we do we’ll update this post with the details.
I want to buy sauces from you over the phone. How do I do that and when’s a good time to call?
Hi Bernard, thank you for your message. Unfortunately, we only ship sauces to Australian addresses and I note that you reside in the USA.