We see you scouring through the hot sauces to find out which one holds the crown of “hottest sauce”! Is it a Reaper sauce? Is it a garlic sauce? Get your milk ready, because we’re taking you through the best hot sauces ranked at Torchbearer Sauces (based on our team’s opinion).
10. Headless Horseradish
Heat level: 6
Pepper(s): Bhut Jolokia (Ghost)
Don’t let the small amount of Ghost Peppers in this hot sauce fool you! They joined hands with horseradish to turn up the taste bud thermostat without you noticing. But one taste, and you’ll definitely be paying attention. Smoky and spicy with that famous horseradish bite, the flavorful heat of Headless Horseradish solidifies its place on our best hot sauces ranked.
P.S. This hot sauce/wing sauce for sale was featured on season 10 of Hot Ones!
9. Mushroom Mayhem
Heat level: 7
Pepper(s): Habañero; Scorpion
Next up on our hottest sauces list is Mushroom Mayhem. And mayhem it will bring. Featured on season 20 of Hot Ones, this hot sauce brings habañero and Scorpion peppers together with shiitake and portabella mushrooms for a sauce that’s as devilishly delicious as it is fiery. You’ll be pouring this on everything from sandwiches to dry wings. Take heed though, this hot sauce is not for the faint of heart!
8. Ultimate Annihilation™
Heat level: 7
Pepper(s): Bhut Jolokia; Chocolate Habañero
Mushroom Mayhem not hot enough for you? Then, hop onto the slow freight train to hell, better known as Ultimate Annihilation™. Coming in at number 8 on our best hot sauces ranked, this Ghost Pepper-led sauce offers a slow burn and a great introduction to the spicy sauces at Torchbearer. But this isn’t just another spicy-to-be-spicy hot sauce! Naturally made with fruits and vegetables (no extracts!), Ultimate Annihilation™ is filled with awesome flavors.
7. Zombie Apocalypse™
Heat level: 8
Pepper(s): Bhut Jolokia; Habañero
You know a hot sauce featured on 2 different seasons of Hot Ones had to be super hot! This Jolokia Pepper sauce provides apocalyptic levels of heat due to the infamously hot Bhut Jolokia and delightfully warm habañero. But trust us, spicy’s never tasted this good. Zombie Apocalypse™ puts flavor first and fire second with ingredients like carrots and mandarin oranges, making it one of our best hot sauces ranked for both flavor and heat.
6. Plum Reaper
Heat level: 8
Pepper(s): Reaper
Just when you thought it couldn’t get even hotter, we hit you with Plum Reaper. Sweet? Yep. Spicy? 100%. So, before you go dousing your food with this Reaper sauce, remember that it is on our hottest sauce list. We love Plum Reaper for its balance of sweet, fruity flavors and sweat-inducing heat, and we think you will, too!
5. Honey Badger
Heat level: 8
Pepper(s): Scorpion; Reaper
Ready for the top 5 best hot sauces ranked? Then, buckle up, because coming in at a scalding-hot number 5 is Honey Badger! This sauce combines our award-winning Honey Mustard recipe with Scorpion Peppers and Reaper Peppers, giving you a mustard hot sauce you’re going to want to try on hot dogs, pretzels, sandwiches, and right off a spoon.
4. Reaper Evil
Heat level: 9
Pepper(s): Reaper
This may be closer to your standard hot sauce, but it’s anything but. Artificial flavor- and preservative-free, Reaper Evil harnesses the pure evil, or errr, flavors, of Reaper Peppers for heat that’s almost guaranteed to have you reaching for that gallon of milk.
The heat definitely doesn’t overpower the flavors, though. We added tons of onions, garlic, and vinegar to complement the subtly sweet flavors of the Reaper and give you a delicious burn.
3. Nekrogoblikon’s Goblin Blood
Heat level: 9
Pepper(s): Reaper; Chipotle
Number 3 on our best hot sauces ranked isn’t just hot; it’s fiendish. With its obscene heat, we like to say that this sauce came straight from Nekrogoblikon’s resident goblin himself. Nekrogoblikon’s Goblin Blood is packed with Reaper Peppers and rounded out with the oniony, herbaceous flavor of chives, smoky chipotle peppers, and red wine vinegar, making it one face-melting, flavor explosion of a sauce. Taste the blaze…if you dare.
2. Garlic Reaper
Heat level: 9.5
Pepper(s): Reaper
Our hottest sauces list would never be complete without our Garlic Reaper sauce! Our biggest sauce of 2019, Garlic Reaper is one of the best hot sauces ranked at Torchbearer Sauces for its amazing heat and flavor. It’s creamy, garlicky, savory, and so hot it just might make you combust.
Don’t think a garlic sauce could possibly be that hot? Think again. Featured on season 8 of Hot Ones, Garlic Reaper even had Gordon Ramsay regretting biting into his Reaper-drenched wing. But if you’re brave enough to try this unique hot sauce, your fellow pepper heads love putting it on pizza, tacos, burritos, burgers, and everything else that garlic goes on.
1. The Rapture™
Heat level: 10+
Pepper(s): Habañero; Bhut Jolokia; Scorpion; Reaper
And the hottest sauce on our list is…drumroll please…The Rapture™. For everyone out there who’s ever complained about sauces with feeble heat, bitter extracts, or excessive vinegar, this is the best hot sauce ranked for you! Using fruits, vegetables, and our spice blends, we bottled up some big flavors to match the heat of this super-hot hot sauce.
We gotta warn you though – this sauce is straight-up deadly. Your taste buds will immediately be hit with a raw and earthy pepper flavor before experiencing a fiery, end-of-times kind of heat that will make you weak in the knees and have smoke coming out of your ears. Don’t believe us? Unleash the spice today.
The Best Hot Sauces Ranked
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Andy – the Marketing & Sales Manager | Sauce Wizard, full-time foodie, and lover of all things hot sauce. He’s got a serious thing for flavor and spice, which is why he’s been on his own personal mission to crown the best hot sauce EVER (though his indecisiveness really keeps getting in his way). Some of his current favorite Torchbearer Sauces include Son of Zombie, Garlic Reaper, and Mushroom Mayhem, but ask him next week and the answer might change. He also hopes to be on First We Feast’s Hot Ones one day, if Sean would finally just answer his emails…
