Halloween Hot Sauce: Revenge, Reapers and the Mark of the Beast
Revenge. Reaper. Scorpion. The Beast. Straight Outta Hell. Half our lineup already sounds like a haunted house, so here's the Halloween edition: what each one is, how hot it really runs, and what to put it on before the trick-or-treaters show up.
- Making the party chili? One drop of Revenge, 1,000,000 Scoville habanero extract, does the whole pot.
- Sweet first, then the fire: Pure Gold, Dragon's Breath Edition, over 1,000,000 Scoville.
- The final boss: Mark of the Beast, 6,000,000 Scoville. Kitchen only, one drop at a time.
The Halloween lineup
Revenge
1,000,000 Scoville · habanero extract · kitchen only
They say revenge is best served cold. They never tried this. Habanero and chile pepper extract that takes over 12 pounds of hot peppers to make, under a bright yellow label that's there for a reason. It's a food additive, not a sauce: one drop goes into the pot, and the bottle stays in the kitchen.
Use it in: the big pot of party chili, a batch of wing sauce, a crockpot of queso. Our chili dosing guide has the amounts.
Reaper Sriracha
Carolina Reaper · sriracha style
Red jalapeño and garlic up front, like the sriracha you know. Then the Carolina Reaper shows up. It's thick enough to dip, so it works where a thin hot sauce runs off.
Put it on: wings, egg rolls, dumplings, a mummy-wrapped hot dog.
Pure Gold, Dragon's Breath Edition
Over 1,000,000 Scoville · 200× a jalapeño
Ripe mango and peach, then Carolina Reaper. It tastes like candy for about three seconds, which makes it the most Halloween-appropriate trick in the box.
Put it on: pork, shrimp, grilled chicken, a cheese board. A few drops is a serving.
Mark of the Beast
6,000,000 Scoville · 1,200× a jalapeño
HPLC-certified pepper extract in a black collector case with a side window that shows the bottle. This is not a hot sauce. It's a food additive, used one drop at a time in a full pot of chili or stew, and never eaten straight. Warm the bottle in hot water before you open it.
Use it in: the pot, when Revenge isn’t enough. One drop, never more to start.
Love is STRAIGHT OUTTA HELL!
Four bottles · gift pack
Pure Ghost, Scorpion, Silver Edition with the bullet key chain, and a 5 oz bottle of 1 Million Scoville Pepper Extract. One box covers the whole party, from the curious to the reckless.
Carve your own heat: dried pods
Making a pot of chili or a batch of salsa for the party? A single dried superhot pod does more than a handful of fresh jalapeños. Drop one whole pod into the pot while it simmers and fish it out before serving. Want more heat? Break it open first.
- Carolina Reaper Pods: tested at over 1,410,000 Scoville.
- Scorpion Pods: tested at over 1,000,000 Scoville.
- Naga Morich Pods: the "serpent chile," a close relative of the ghost pepper.
Wear gloves when you break dried pods, and keep your hands away from your eyes until you've washed them.
Throwing a Halloween party? Four house rules
- Label the hot stuff. A little skull on a sticky note next to the dip does the job. Nobody should find out by accident.
- Keep the superhots away from the candy bowl. Halloween means kids at the door. Sauce stays on the adult table.
- Extract stays in the kitchen. It goes in the pot, not on the snack table, and never on a chip as a dare.
- Put milk out. Whole milk or a dairy dip cuts the burn better than water or beer. More on that in how to stop the burn.
Pick your fright
Making the party chili? Revenge. Sweet tooth? Pure Gold. Need the whole party covered? Straight Outta Hell. Already know exactly what 6 million means? The Beast is waiting. Nothing mild here.
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