Scoville Heat Units (SHU) is still the golden rule used when ranking the heat of hot sauces and chili peppers. And today, people sample Scoville sauces for fun, (here’s looking at you Pepper Heads!). Today, measuring the Scoville heat of sauces and the chili peppers they’re derived from has become much more accurate like the laboratory tests used by the Guinness World Record to measure Smokin Ed’s ® Carolina Reaper ® and declare it the hottest pepper in the world.

Wilbur’s mission was to measure the heat of chili peppers by providing samples of chili peppers and capsaicin extracts and measuring how diluted a sample needed to be in order for people to consume it without pain. The method to measure the heat found in chili peppers was created back in 1912 by Pharmacist and Pepper Head, Wilbur Scoville. The Scoville scale rates the heat of chili peppers. So, to answer the question of how big of a Pepper Head you are, start by seeing where are your tolerance lands on the Scoville Scale. These Scoville Sauces and hot peppers aren’t for the faint of heart and should come with a serious warning before making their way to your table. And, hot sauces just keep getting hotter, thanks in part to trail blazers like Puckerbutt Pepper Company’s Smokin’ Ed Currie ® and his quest to continue to create the world’s hottest peppers and pack them into the hottest sauces imaginable. Some have been known to go into an otherworldly, hallucinogenic state when eating too much too fast.

There are hot sauces and then there are Scoville sauces that are so ridiculously hot that you’ll cry when you eat them.

Some carolina reaper sauce