Blair's builds its Death Sauce line around ever-hotter extracts, and the Scoville ratings Wikipedia lists for it climb from a mild 4,000 to 2 million. Crystal Death tops the sauces that are still on shelves. The hotter 16 Million Reserve was a numbered run of 999 bottles, now sold out.
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At a glance
| Product | Claim | Lowest eBay | Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|
 Mad Dog 357 Plutonium No. 9 Pepper Extract | 9M SHU | $88.64 | Check price |
| Blair's Crystal Death Sauce | 2.0M SHU | none listed | Check price |
 Hot Ones The Last Dab | 2M+ SHU | $28.70 | Check price |
 Blair's Ultra Death Sauce | 1.1M SHU | $23.50 | Check price |
 Blair's Mega Death Sauce | 550K SHU | $23.77 | Check price |
Run your own Hot Ones challenge
Hot Ones guests eat wings with a lineup of hotter and hotter sauces. Da' Bomb Beyond Insanity has sat in spot 8 since season 2, and The Last Dab is always the final sauce (Wikipedia). At home:
- Line up the sauces from mildest to hottest.
- Eat one wing per sauce, in order, with no skipping.
- Finish on The Last Dab, or Crystal Death if you want 2 million SHU in a regular sauce.
- Plutonium No. 9 is an extract, not a dipping sauce: its maker says never use more than one drop in any food.
Do it safely
- Keep milk, bread or rice nearby.
- Wash your hands before touching your eyes.
- Keep extracts away from children.
The sauces and extracts
Mad Dog 357 Plutonium No. 9 Pepper Extract
Ashley Food Company says it registers 9,000,000 on the Scoville scale, about four times a Carolina Reaper pepper. It is an extract for cooking, not a table sauce.
Food additive, not a sauce: keep it away from eyes and children. The maker's founder says never use more than one drop in any food or consume it directly.
Hot Ones The Last Dab
The final sauce on the Hot Ones interview show, rated 2,000,000+ SHU per Wikipedia. Guests take it last, after Da' Bomb Beyond Insanity in spot 8. Later versions include Reduxx, XXX, Apollo and Xperience.
Blair's Ultra Death Sauce
Listed at 1,100,000 SHU: about 220 to 440 times Tabasco, and in the range of a Carolina Reaper pepper.
Blair's Mega Death Sauce
Listed at 550,000 SHU: about 110 to 220 times Tabasco. The easiest of the three to find, and the mildest.
We earn a commission on purchases through these links. eBay prices (item + shipping) read from our latest check; Amazon links open a search, so check the price there. Listed in no particular order. Each figure is the maker’s or the named source’s claim, as of 2026-11-09.
How hot is that?
Scoville heat units on a log scale: each step right is a multiple, not an addition.
Pepper Sauce or candy On this page
- Tabasco sauce
2,500 to 5,000 SHU · source - Jalapeño
about 5,000 SHU · source - Blair's Mega Death
550,000 SHU · source - Blair's Ultra Death
1,100,000 SHU · source - Carolina Reaper
1,641,183 (average) SHU · source - Blair's Crystal Death
2,000,000 SHU · source - Hot Ones The Last Dab
2,000,000+ SHU · source - Pepper X
2,693,000 average SHU · source - Mad Dog 357 Plutonium No. 9
9,000,000 SHU · source - Blair's 16 Million Reserve (sold out)
about 16,000,000 SHU · source
Good to know
- Heat figures are the makers' ratings as listed by Wikipedia (page last edited 14 June 2026), not independent lab results.
- Blair's 16 Million Reserve (capsaicin crystals, about 16 million SHU) is sold out; resale prices run into the hundreds of dollars.
Watch Hot Ones and extract challenges
▶Gordon Ramsay on Hot OnesFirst We Feast · YouTube · 2019
▶Tom Holland on Hot OnesFirst We Feast · YouTube · 2021
▶Dry-aging steak in 9 million Scoville extractMax the Meat Guy · YouTube · 2023Videos open on YouTube. We don't make or endorse them; they show what the challenge looks like.
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Sources
- PR Newswire: Ashley Food Company, Mad Dog 357 Plutonium No. 9, Oct 22 2013: “never use more than one drop in any food or consume it directly”
- Wikipedia: Hot Ones, read 2026-11-09
- Wikipedia: Blair's Sauces and Snacks, read 2026-11-09: “All but the 2am and 3am reserves are completely sold-out.”
- The Manual: hottest hot sauce in the world (16 Million Reserve), Jan 2024