Tabasco Scorpion Hot Sauce (5 Ounce)

It's a good hot sauce. As with most other Tabasco sauces, it's very vinegar-forward. It's thicker than other Tabasco sauces, but still quite watery compared to many modern hot sauces. The heat level is decent and is a noticeable step up from the Tabasco Habanero sauce. The Habanero version has a very fruity flavor, but it may not be hot enough for people looking for more heat. This one brings the heat while still keeping the familiar Tabasco profile. It may be too hot if you are not used to spicy food. The only downside is that the flavor can taste a little artificial compared to more natural-tasting sauces. It also doesn't have the complexity of artisanal sauces or the charm of brands like Torchbearer and PuckerBu-- sauces. That said, in this price range, it's one of the best hot sauces you can reliably get. It's a great option if you like Tabasco but want something significantly hotter without jumping into extreme heat levels.

Normal Tabasco, as great as it is, is a casual sauce. It's a table sauce at Chipotle and whatever. This Scorpion Sauce is real. It won't kill you like Apollo or Reaper Squeezin's or a super-hot extract sauce, but you can't casually palm-squirt 30 bursts of this on to your burrito like the normal stuff, either. I give this five stars mostly for availability. For people who might want to dip their toes into the waters of super-hots, this is an acceptable and affordable jumping-off point, at least in my opinion. If super-hots are a swimming pool, I think this is a good diving-board. Flavor-wise, this is tabasco-ish. Smoke and vinegar, which is wonderful. But when you start getting into super-hots, there are so many pepper-mash flavors that you kinda start learning that smoke and vinegar are almost "gimmick flavors" that are perfect for some things, but not necessarily everything. For me, this sauce hits hard with anything that has sour cream and/or cilantro in it. Like for that flavor profile, it kills. But it really brings the heat.

Five star rating, though I'm probably never buying this sauce again, even if it's still available a year from now. Bought four bottles a couple weeks back. As a Tabasco Habanero addict (like five 1-gallon jugs in the last five years for me alone), I do like my heat. And I adore my Tabasco. It's just the laws of physics that get in the way. The McIlhenny folks are supremely skilled, devoted, and brave -- they're actually devoted public servants as well as culinary artists of the highest degree. They looked at the burgeoning hot sauce landscape like 5-10 years ago, and challenged themselves: they asked the question, "could we do a truly great super-hot sauce?" And they decided, brilliantly, on a totally Jamaican flavor profile. They passed over the simplistic carroty/tomatoey Habanero sauce formulas, and went straight for the complex exquisiteness of Caribbean style. This means scorching heat from painstakingly bred super-hot peppers, astoundingly married to their polar opposites. The Tabasco Habanero is many times spicier than the century-old Tabaso Lousiana-style, but it is tempered with the coolest tropical fruits imaginable. Banana. Guava. Papaya. That sauce is a masterpiece: the first truly unadulteredly American hot sauce with a classically American melting pot of foreign influences. I will buy more gallons, and continue putting it on everything from steak to hot dogs to spaghetti. But the ingenious (yet kind) folks at McIlhenny are never satisfied with mere perfection: they always want to move forward, especially as American tastes evolve. Which brings us to the exciting new territory beyond Habaneros, such as the Scorpion pepper. Yet the problem is unsolvable. It's basic math. Chemistry. Physics. As you make sauces from hotter and hotter new cultivars of peppers, people are obviously going to use less of it to get their preferred heat. The inspirations for the wonderful Scorpion Sauce are clear: beloved old Jamaican entries like Pick-A-Pepper (with its Bird Peppers). But the problem is clear: when you use less sauce, it means you can't taste the other ingredients as well. Tabasco Scorpion is a skillful balance of pineapple and guava with deliciously hot Scorpion peppers. Simply superb. But where I, personally, can enjoy a tablespoon of Tabasco Habanero per dinner, I can only stomach about a teaspoon of Scorpion (before violent internal revolution takes place). I get the heat all right, but without nearly as much of that awesome tropical breezy counterpoint. I think Tabasco Scorpion is a great replacement for my Pure Cap One Miilion Scoville extract when it comes to certain foods like tuna or curry, where I don't want much fruity flavor intruding beyond the sheer inferno. But for most super-hot dishes I think I will stay with the Tabasco Habanero, where I can have the maximum cold/hot dynamic going for me. Love McIlhenny. Love Tabasco. But despite my five-star rating, the Scorpion is a little too far for me to venture much.

I’ve been using the Tabasco Scorpion sauce for years, and I have to say, it delivers. It's fairly hot to me, so if you're sensitive to heat and think regular Tabasco is spicy, you'll want to take it slow. But the great thing is that it still has a solid flavor, unlike some super-hot sauces that just taste like pure pain. There's a little bit of a fruity note in there that keeps it interesting. The bottle is the standard 5-ounce size, and honestly, you don't need much. A drop or two is usually enough to spice up an entire dish, so it will last you a while. I’ve been putting it on eggs, tacos, pizza, spaghetti, and just about everything else. If you are a fan of Tabasco and want to step up the heat level significantly, this is the one. Great buy, no complaints.

This might be the best sauce ever! The nice thing about Tabasco which I hope they never change is their all natural ingredients. They do not sacrifice on quality. This is great on cheese burgers, tacos, nachos and pizza and more. If you like heat with great flavor try this. I have given a bottle of this to many many friends so they can try it. All without exception have loved it. FYI- They all love spicy spicy stuff. Cheer and Enjoy!

It's not insane, but it's hotter than the original Tabasco by far. It also is very different than the original. It doesn't have that pronounced vinegar aspect, and it's very slightly smokey. Excellent on things like pasta with tomato-based sauce and salad dressing for extra punch and a flavor accent. This is a nice-sized bottle, and a good value.

I like hot sauce, but not necessarily HOT sauce. This sauce packs a punch, but not enough to make you stop. It's also not hot to just be hot, there's actual flavor to compliment the heat. It's the hottest sauce I actually enjoy. If sriracha is a heat scale 3, this is a 5. Good stuff.

Great hot sauce that still retains some of the original Tabasco flavor! Nice and SPICY!!! If you're looking to level up, definitely try this!!!

Let me tell you something. I thought I was tough. I was in Osaka, in a restaurant, acting all cool. I poured 7–8 drops of this Tabasco Scorpion sauce on a taco chip like it was nothing. For five full minutes, I bragged to the restaurant owner that I felt nothing. "Pfft, this is weak," I said. And then. Hell. Literally hell. The burn activated like some cursed ancient trap. For the next hour, I was sweating like I ran a marathon through a volcano. Tongue went numb. I genuinely wondered if I would survive. At one point I saw the void. But here's the thing: After that hour of torment... I felt reborn. Cleansed. Almost divine. Verdict: If you want the hottest sauce that actually comes from a pepper that grows naturally, this is it. The Scorpion is not a lab-made freakshow. It's the real deal. A beast. And I tasted it. I conquered it. Godlike. Would I use it again? Yes. But maybe... one drop at a time.

Parfait comme d'habitude. Probablement la meilleure sauce du monde.

Ist wie erwartet ,schmeckt gut und ist gut scharf .nicht für Leute die es nur pikant mögen . Perfekt Fürst essen nebenbei mal

Very yummy, hot too!

Exelente, creo que es la mejor salsa de esta marca, pero ojo, la verdad es una de las más picosas qué hay, y lo especifica diciendo que en serio es extremadamente picosa, así que si te gusta algo así, adelante