Elijah’s Xtreme Regret goes great with wings, in chili, and on grilled meats. I tried it as an addition to my BBQ sauce, and just a few drops added plenty of spiciness to a perviously mild sauce. I also added a few drops onto a BBQ sandwich, and the fruity heat really was a standout. I even got that touch of garlic from just those few drops. Regret uses 12 million Scoville oleoresin (similar to extract) as its main heat source, which is often misinterpreted and misrepresented as the hot sauce scoring 12 million SHU. It uses 12 million SHU oleoresin, but that SHU is diluted by its other ingredients including: tomato, cider vinegar, bourbon, garlic, lime, ghost pepper, habanero, salt, and herbs. Perfect for those who appreciate the wild and dangerous side of hot sauce tasting, Psycho Juice’s directions for use explicitly warn you that pain may be experienced.

At a low level, this is through things like sweating, but if overdosing on seriously hot stuff, your body will likely induce vomiting to stop a super Scoville chilli overriding your system. The scoville scale measures heat in chilli peppers and other spicy foods with the common green chilli coming in at between 350-1,500 and even the hottest scotch bonnet is less than 400,000. Read More Related ArticlesFirst time I did it, it smelled like pain and regret,” he says. “The second time I did it, it smelled like misery and trauma.

The minute you open the bottle, you get a delicious sweet smell. It’s that mix of carrots, tomato paste, apple cider vinegar, and sugar (along with the fruitiness of those Chinense chilies) that are front and center with the aroma. Johnson admits that even he is intimidated by the extracts. And yet YouTube is filled with videos by amateurs and experienced chilli eaters all willing to feed an audience’s sado-masochistic taste for pain. Beware though, not every hot sauce has a Scoville rating, as they must be officially tested to get one. I wondered how Da Bomb’s makers, Spicin Foods, were building on its popularity. I should have guessed: Jeff Hinds, president of Spicin, says the company cranked the heat, developing even hotter versions of the wretched stuff. We’ll get into the heat below. Just know for now that this is a hot sauce that reaches an extreme level of spiciness. Leading off with Trinidad Moruga Scorpion and Carolina Reaper is about as bold as you get.I’m Johnny Scoville, and as you know I have issues,” says the triple-braid bearded host of Chase the Heat at the beginning of his Mad Dog 357 Plutonium extract challenge video, where he’s about to chug the 9m SHU concentrate. He’s nervous, he says – not because of the challenge, which he’s already completed twice, but because of a confession he’s about to make. A normal bell pepper, for example, would rate at 0-100 SHU, as from experience, you’ll know they have essentially no spice.

When you see a chilli you don’t recognise, research it’s uses and try and get an idea of which recipes or food it will work well with to make sure you’re buying a hot sauce which will fit your favourite flavour profiles. To properly understand how hot your chosen sauce is going to be, it’s wise to get acquainted with the Scoville chart (SHU), an official accreditation of heat for chilli peppers. I could feel the heat traveling through my digestive tract, but it didn’t get too far. Like severe menstrual cramps, waves of nausea sent me to lay on the bathroom floor.So, these are big time chilies, and one of the joys of Elijah’s Xtreme Regret Hot Sauce is that it lets those peppers shine, both in heat and flavor. This a true super-hot hot sauce: no massive dilution with water, vinegar, or another liquid and flavor pairings that highlight the natural fruity sweetness you find in both of these chilies.