Tabasco "Extra Hot" Scorpion Sauce

[rockquarry]

Has this been available for a while or is it new? Anyone tried it? I noticed it at the grocery store this morning for the first time and couldn't pass it up. Most of the "very hot" versions of most hot sauces aren't, but here's hoping Scorpion is the real thing, with flavor, too, of course.

 

[s&wchad]

It’s old enough that I got my first bottle in the reduced section at Kroger. I’m currently working on my second bottle. It has a great flavor, but it does pack a punch!
Only use a couple of drops, until you build up your tolerance.

Edit to add:
I did some digging.
Regular Tabasco is listed at 2,500 on the Scoville scale.
Tabasco Scorpion sauce is listed at 50,000 SHU’s.

If that’s not hot enough, get a bottle of Da’ Bomb Ground Zero. It’s listed at 234,000 SHU’s!

 

[rockquarry]

It’s old enough that I got my first bottle in the reduced section at Kroger. I’m currently working on my second bottle. It has a great flavor, but it does pack a punch!
Only use a couple of drops, until you build up your tolerance.

One negative point after reading the box label; it's pretty high in sodium like most or all of the cheap hot sauces. Scorpion has about six times the sodium content of regular Tabasco, which is only 35 mg. per teaspoon.

 

[tops]

One negative point after reading the box label; it's pretty high in sodium like most or all of the cheap hot sauces. Scorpion has about six times the sodium content of regular Tabasco, which is only 35 mg. per teaspoon.

It's just an old mans curiosity but if eating something hot enough to burn holes in your insides why worry about sodium? Larry

 

[s&wchad]

It’s 20X hotter than regular Tabasco sauce. A teaspoon of that stuff is a lot!

 

[STCM(SW)]

Hot Sause

I haven't even open this one.....
480,000 SU!

 

[Kevin J.]

I love hot sauces of all kind. But at some point the heat things gets a little silly. It has to have some flavor other than surface of the sun hot.

 

[CH4]

No thanks
A local Thai restaurant has a heat scale from 1 to 10, with 10 being the hottest. I am known as #2 Lou

 

[ralph7]

The Tabasco scorpion sauce has a good hit to it, I like it better than the original.

 

[Rustyt1953]

As both Billy Wilder and Robert Palmer said: "some like it hot."

 

[ladder13]

Might be good for burning off polyps.

 

[Kevin J.]

Might be good for burning off polyps.

Not to mention hemorrhoids.

 

[ladder13]

Not to mention hemorrhoids.

Or cause them.

 

[riverrat38]

Thats why ice cream is eaten after the hot pepper sauce!

73,
Rick

 

[DWalt]

I worked in Colombia for awhile. Colombian food is normally on the mild, if not bland, side, but they had a bottled sauce there which was far hotter than anything I had tried in the USA. One or two drops was enough. Beyond that, food became inedible, at least to me. I don’t remember its name.

My favorite is a Mexican import sauce called San Luis, sold at the Texas supermarket chain H-E-B. Only medium hot, but it has a very good taste. Not thin and watery like Tabasco sauce, closer to Cholula, but better. I put it on everything. No idea how much sodium it has, as I don’t care.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I loves me some endorphin rush but 580K is my "cry uncle" point.

PS: I've never had stomach or intestinal issues due to the consumption of incendiary foods.

 

[s&wchad]

Be careful what you ask for…

Back when I worked in an office, a group of us single guys would regularly go out for lunch. One of our favorite restaurants was the Bangkok Kitchen. We got to be good friends with the owner and were on a first name basis. He took great pride in raising, roasted and grinding his own Thai peppers.

Over time, we were ordering our Pad Thai hotter and hotter. One day, a fellow engineer named Jim with a great sense of humor ordered “Pad Thai Pigeon, flaming stool hot”. The pigeon crack ticked the owner off, so he taught him a lesson.

Jim’s lunch came out dark red. After one bite, he got a severe case of the hick-up’s and had to choke down an entire pitcher of ice water. The owner took it away and brought him another plate. When he put it on the table, he told Jim “You no do that again”.

 

[CH4]

Not to mention hemorrhoids.

... a polyp that escaped

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[S42N8]

Highly radioactive; half-life of 10 seconds. Probably as advertised, but really hard to keep in stock.