How does the "Suicide Sauce" from Hot Licks rate on the Scoville Scale
I bought the so called "Suicide Hot-Sauce" from Hot Licks about a year ago when I visited California. I forgot to ask how this sauce rates on the Scoville Scale, because I usually don't care that much about those numbers as long as the taste is good.
The topic came up in a recent discussion and I tried to find this information on the Internet. Many supplier provide this information, but I could not find anything, not even a rough estimate, about the Suicide Sauce. From what I have read so far this sauce is one of the less hot ones.
Can anyone who knows this hot-sauce give a rough estimate how hot it is?
Update: According to their website the Hot Licks "XXX" sauce is three times as hot as the suicide sauce. In case someone has information about this one, this would help as well.
Edit: Is there a way to rate sauces on the Scoville scale? Does an index exist for sauces? Is there a way to measure the hotness?
Best Answer
I am Adrienne Fay, Merchandise Manager for Hot Licks, Maker of Suicide and XXX.
I just discovered this post. Unfortunately even I can not give you the Scoville rating because we have never had our sauce rated on the Scoville scale for two reasons:
- The rating system is intended for peppers and even two peppers on the same vine will have two different ratings.
- Everyone's perception of hot is different. So for some people,even a drop of Suicide sauce will destroy them, where some customers buy the product by the case load.
Most companies will estimate the Scoville rating by ingredients we know, but frankly we just set out to make a sauce with capsaicin extract that had flavor. Hopefully you find the taste and heat level to your liking.
If you have any further inquiries you can email me at [email protected]
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How many Scoville units is suicide sauce?
With its 1,1 Million Scoville Units pepper extracts, this sauce is 800 times hotter than Tabasco and makes it one of the hottest sauces in the world. Death has never tasted better.How many Scoville units are suicide chicken wings?
Suicide is much hotter. Like the top answerer mentioned, it's probably around 100,000 SHU.Sean Evans Reveals the Season 17 Hot Sauce Lineup | Hot Ones
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Answer 2
On this website, and this one they have rated several different sauces based on the Scoville scale. Although "Suicide Hot-Sauce" is not on the list, you can get an estimate of its range if you know the ingredients.
That said, I've tried the suicide sauce and it is no hotter than what's used in chicken hot-wings sold in bars, and is comparable to Tabasco. I would estimate its hotness to be between 40,000-60,000 Scoville heat units.
UPDATE
As I was reading more about it, I found out that Hot Licks started out in San Diego and "Suicide" was their first ever sauce! In fact, two of their three stores are in SD, which is where I am right now. So I went to one of them and inquired about it and they said it was around 100,000 - 120,000 SHU! That's way above my estimate of Tabasco sauce/chicken wings (my tongue has sure become insensitive!). They also confirmed what you said in your post... "XXX" is rated at around 300,000 SHU.
They said these are only estimates and that there are no official ratings of the sauces because they didn't get it verified/rated (which explains why my earlier links didn't have any info on them). Apparently it is very expensive to do so.
Answer 3
I've had Frank's. I've had Tobasco. I can drink that junk. Suicide is much hotter. Like the top answerer mentioned, it's probably around 100,000 SHU. Franks is tomato sauce compared to Suicide. XXX is about 3 times hotter than even Suicide.
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