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Tabasco®

Price - $34.95

Scoville Rating - 3,750

Everyone who likes hot sauce knows about Tabasco. There is something so addictive about this sauce. The label says "it takes 3 years to make the unique flavor." They probably mean: it takes 3 years for the vinegar we use to age. In any case, their mix of distilled vinegar, red pepper, and salt is just right.

The company claims you can put this on anything. I did at one point, but I think my tongue got numb. In my opinion, this hot sauce is best on anything greasy. I put Tabasco hot sauce on 3 things now: Domino's pizza, fried potatos, and french fries.

Tabasco hot sauce is usually sold in 5fl oz bottles. The Scoville scale is a rating system to measure the "hotness" of a chile pepper. This rating is more a selling point among hot sauce companies. I am told habaneros hot sauce is the hottest. Well, it only makes sense since the habaneros pepper has a Scoville rating of more than 300,000.

 

The following is examples of Scoville ratings to use as point of reference:
15,000,000 Pure capsaicin, dihydrocapsaicin
12,000,000 Blair's 6am food additive (999 made)
9,100,000 Nordihydrocapsaicin
8,600,000 Homodihydrocapsaicin and homocapsaicin
7,100,000 "The Source" hot sauce
5,300,000 Police grade Pepper spray
4,000,000 Blair's 4am food additive (999 made)
2,000,000 Common pepper spray or Pepper Bomb
350,000 - 580,000 Red Savina habanero
100,000 - 350,000 Habanero chile
100,000 - 325,000 Scotch bonnet
100,000 - 225,000 African birdseye (aka "African Devil")
100,000 - 200,000 Jamaican hot pepper
100,000 - 125,000 Carolina cayenne pepper
95,000 - 110,000 Bahamian pepper
85,000 - 115,000 Tabiche pepper
50,000 - 100,000 Chiltepin pepper
50,000 - 100,000 Rocoto
40,000 - 58,000 Pequin pepper
40,000 - 50,000 Super chile pepper
40,000 - 50,000 Santaka pepper
30,000 - 50,000 Cayenne pepper
30,000 - 50,000 Tabasco pepper
15,000 - 30,000 de Arbol pepper
12,000 - 30,000 Manzano pepper, Aji
5,000 - 23,000 Serrano pepper
5,000 - 10,000 Hot wax pepper
5,000 - 10,000 Chipotle
2,500 - 8,000 Jalapeno
2,500 - 8,000 Santaka pepper
2,500 - 5,000 Guajilla pepper
1,500 - 2,500 Rocotilla pepper
1,000 - 2,000 Pasilla pepper
1,000 - 2,000 Ancho pepper
1,000 - 2,000 Poblano pepper
700 - 1,000 Coronado pepper
500 - 2,500 Anaheim pepper
500 - 1,000 New Mexico pepper
500 - 700 Santa Fe Grande pepper
100 - 500 Pepperoncini pepper
100 - 500 Pimento
0 Bell pepper