Ridiculously Hot Sauce
Ridiculously Hot Sauce
This sauce has no chill. It tastes great. Then it gets ridiculous.
Ridiculously Hot Sauce is loud, punchy and unapologetic. Built on our Hot Pepper Original as the vinegar base, it’s loaded with NZ-grown super-hot chillies - including Carolina Reapers and Trinidad Scorpions — then topped off with garlic, ginger and Tom Yum paste.
The intensity ramps up fast. It’s not subtle, but it is full of flavour. Yeah, it’s hot. Pretty hot. But it’s not pointlessly hot - this sauce earns its place with a balance of bold heat and real taste.
You’ll swear “never again”… but let’s be honest - we’ll see you tomorrow.
Heat level: Super hot (10/10)
Big heat with bold flavour.
How we like to use it
- Add a small amount to curries or stir-fries
- Spike ramen, soups or marinades
- Mix it with yoghurt, mayo or butter for reckless but controlled chaos in a burger, taco or dipping sauce or spread
- As with all of our products - get involved and put in on whatever makes you happy
Ingredients
White vinegar, New Zealand chillies ferment (23%), New Zealand chillies (22%) (including Carolina Reaper and Trinidad Scorpion), red capsicum, sugar, salt, garlic, ginger, Tom Yum paste (crustacean, soy), flavour enhancer (621), garlic powder, onion powder, thickener (xanthan gum), preservative (202).
Contains: crustacean, soy.
Dietary & details
- Dairy Free
- Small-batch artisan hot sauce
- Made in New Zealand
This extremely hot chilli sauce is made in New Zealand for heat lovers who value flavour as much as fire.
Ridiculously Hot Sauce
FAQ
Questions and Answers
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We make small-batch, artisanal, and high-quality sauces using traditional techniques and high-quality ingredients. The focus is on creating unique and flavourful products with a high attention to detail and care, rather than mass-produced, commercially made sauces.
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We sure do, contact us for details at wholesale@tastelab.co.nz
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There are no animal products in the fermented hot sauces. Our Sweet Chilli Sauce contains fish sauce. Our Hot Honey Sauces contain honey... so it depends how you feel about that.
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Yes! And No.
Most of the sauces are gluten free. The exceptions are Reaper Madness which is made with some malt vinegar and the BBQ sauce which is made with Worcestershire sauce which contains gluten.
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No, none of our Sauces or Spice Blends contain MSG, artificial flavours, or preservatives.
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The Scoville scale is based on a subjective test in which a panel of tasters, typically five, taste a sample of dried pepper that has been mixed with sugar water in decreasing concentrations until the heat can no longer be detected. The heat level of the pepper is then rated based on the number of times the sample must be diluted before the tasters can no longer detect its heat.
The rating is based on the Scoville Heat Units (SHU) and ranges from 0 for a bell pepper to over 2 million for the hottest peppers in the world, such as the Carolina Reaper. The scale is not linear, so a pepper with a rating of 1 million SHU is not just twice as hot as a pepper with a rating of 500,000 SHU.
Today, more objective methods such as High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) are used to measure the concentration of capsaicin, the compound responsible for the spiciness of peppers, but the Scoville scale remains a popular way to compare the heat levels of different peppers and spicy foods.
We're currently working on measuring the HPLC for our sauces.