How'd this fruit get in my hot sauce?
Let's talk about that.
Good mythical morning.
Now, when I think of fruit-based hot sauces,
I pretty much only think of mango habanero.
Habanero.
I can't even say it.
But it turns out there are tons
of different, really interesting fruity hot sauce options
out there on the market. So fruity.
That you didn't even know about.
And if you don't, you will today.
Uh-huh, today is day two
of our hot sauce tournament,
and we're shifting from super savory wing sauces
to the strange, unsung world
of sweet and zesty fruit-based hot sauces.
Rhett, take it away.
Berry, berry, oh contrary,
you just can't miss this slick gift
of citrus and spice competish,
an encounter of fruit-based power,
a fight of spicy delight.
Eight may appear,
but only one can slay their palatable peers.
It's time for Hot Sauce Summer: Fruit-Based Sauces.
To establish our competitors today,
the Mythical crew collected some
of the top-selling fruit-based hot sauces on the market,
and then the super knowledgeable
Mythical Kitcheneers' mouths.
Yes.
Tasted them.
Also, some normie Mythical crew mouths
tasted them. Normies.
And then they ranked them all,
and that gave us our final eight.
And you can watch that full tasting process,
and how they came to their conclusions
on "Behind the Mythicality" over at the Mythical Society
starting tomorrow. Ooh.
Now, according to those results,
the top eight sauces are Dirty Dick's Hot Sauce.
Burns & McCoy
Devorandum Cheery & Trinidad Scorpion Sauce.
Famous Dave's Pineapple Rage Sauce.
Angry Goat Pepper Company Purple Hippo Sauce.
Heartbeat Pineapple Habanero Sauce.
Tabasco Raspberry Chipotle Sauce.
Angry Goat Pepper Company
Hippy Dippy Green Hot Sauce.
And Fat Cat Strawberry Serrano Sauce.
They're not holding back on the words.
Yeah, a lot of qualifiers there.
I gotta see these labels.
Okay, we have determined
that the best level playing field vessel
to eat these hot sauces on
is just a good old French fry.
Okay.
Yeah, we did.
I'm not gonna argue with French fries.
In the end, one fruit-based hot sauce
will stand out enough
to board the illustrious Smokin' Hot Sauce Yacht.
Mm-hm.
Starting out with our first seed Dirty Dick's Hot Sauce
up against our bottom seed Burns & McCoy
Devorandum Cherry & Trinidad Scorpion Sauce.
Okay, this sauce is not very hot.
21,000 Scoville units.
Okay.
It is considered one of the top three hot sauces
in the country by Chile Pepper Magazine
and the National Barbecue Association,
both sources that I trust
and love. Mm.
And it's won all kinds of awards.
Very decorated.
I can taste the mangoes and pineapple in this,
and it pairs well with a decent amount
of heat. Mm.
I would not call it not spicy.
It seems hotter than 21,000.
Yeah.
But boy, that's got a lot of flavor.
Yeah, it's good.
Now, I'm a little afraid.
Me too. Of the Devorandum.
I mean, it's got friggin'.
It's got a bull with abs. A Minotaur.
Well, that's a Min-taur, Minotaur?
A bull with abs.
He's holding a skull.
That's what you're gonna feel like.
You're gonna feel like that skull
he has grasped in his claws.
It's got scorpion and Carolina reaper peppers in it.
Well, it's 1.5 million Scoville units,
1.5 million to 1.75 million.
Smell that.
Okay, we gotta go super easy.
This is triggery, man.
It's a triggery situation.
Now, here's the thing.
Yesterday, you were talking about how-
This one wins. Ghost peppers trigger you.
You confused yourself.
It's Carolina reaper peppers that trigger you.
Well, they both do, 'cause I was triggered.
Because Carolina reaper peppers taste
and smell like death.
They don't taste good.
But there's also a lot of sugar,
some tart cherries.
All right, there's just a little dip,
because this is some hot.
This is hotter than everything featured on "Hot Ones"
except for the last dap.
Okay, I could've gone bigger.
I got so little, and it is so menacing.
I mean, this is the real deal.
What's a Devorandum cherry?
That sounds like something somebody made up.
I mean.
For some reason, it's not hitting me that hard,
but it doesn't taste great. It spreads.
It spreads.
It was a little, little thing
right there on my tongue. This is really good.
And then, now, it's, like, everywhere in my mouth,
and it's coming out my ears a little bit,
and it's creeping up the sides of my head.
Well, you can take it home with you,
because we're gonna put it on ice.
Yeah, we can.
Number one seed, not surprisingly,
Dirty Dick's is moving
right along.
Send it away.
Moving on to our fourth seed,
Famous Dave's Pineapple Rage Sauce,
competing against our fifth seed,
Angry Goat Pepper Company Purple Hippo Sauce.
Sound like you said angry guilt company.
That would be a totally different thing.
Famous Dave's. I've experienced that.
It's a restaurant.
They got over 180 locations.
I like how they put this in,
it's like a flask.
You can put it on your hip,
pull it out, and put it on all types of stuff.
This is kinda bringing me flashbacks.
Best on pork, it says.
Because this bottle shape,
in fact, I'm almost willing to bet
that the exact bottle manufacturer made a sauce
that my dad brought home one time when I was a kid,
and it said 100% Pain on it.
Do you remember those sauces?
This is the 100% Pain bottle.
But the Scoville unit is unknown for Famous Dave's.
It's tricky.
Whoops.
That mean you like it, 'cause you threw the fry?
Well, it's got a barbecue sauce consistency
and a pineapple kick.
The pineapple is coming strong.
Uh-huh.
That pineapple's raging.
I mean, it just plays like a barbecue sauce to me.
I think we just came off of the super heat,
the hottest one we're gonna have
that we kicked to the curb,
and now, I'm searching for the heat.
It's opening up my sinuses,
and I didn't even really feel the first one.
It's just crazy. I really like the taste.
Over here, we've got...
You know, I don't like their logo as much.
Obviously, some kid drew a purple hippo.
Let's see how this tastes. This is a thin sauce.
Apricot bourbon barbecue sauce.
Woo, this right here is a lot hotter.
This one goes up to a quarter of a million Scoville units,
but it's packing a punch.
Well, a quarter million is a lot.
Yeah, ah.
It's not doing enough for me, though.
Famous Dave's is giving me that pineapple rage.
It does not shy away from that pineapple.
Never had anything like it, so.
That means that Famous Dave's is moving along.
Purple Hippo, sorry to knock on the artwork,
but you're outta here.
A child did it.
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Okay, now, we got our third seed,
Heartbeat Pineapple Habanero Sauce
up against our sixth seed, Tabasco Chipotle Raspberry Sauce.
Mm-hm.
This is an interesting bottle.
Yeah, it is.
It's got a squirty thing happening, like a.
It looks like honey mustard.
This is pretty low on the heat scale,
12,200. But thinner.
It is made with Sleeping Giant Beaver Duck Session IPA.
Oh, beer.
Yeah, it's a beer.
I don't think there's beavers or ducks in it.
Okay, good.
I said Beaver duck while you were eating your first bite.
Yeah, that scared me.
Hm, that's got a nice balance of flavors.
Interesting.
Yeah, and it's got some good heat.
I would say, like, a nice, medium heat.
Doesn't make me complain.
Pineapple and yellow peppers, and habaneros.
This is fun.
And some garlic oil.
All right, now, you come over here
to the world of the Tabasco bottle,
Raspberry Chipotle.
Also got blueberry powder and pomegranate concentrate.
Pomegranate concentrate?
Happening.
I went thick, boy.
You know, pomegranate, that'll give you,
that'll make you horny. The toots?
Oh.
Pomegranate is like the fruit of-
Yeah.
Sensuality.
That tastes like jam.
But hot.
Hot jam.
That is so unusual. Ben mentioned
that you can eat this with ice cream.
I got ice cream on the side
just for a palate-cleanser,
but this is a good idea.
I really am kinda enjoying this.
Oh, I just, well, no harm, no foul.
Oh.
Serve me.
Okay. Here you go.
Ooh, that's good.
It's so sweet. Ooh, ooh,
this is a tough round.
It's so sweet, but-
I wanna vote for both of them.
I feel like this is bringing such a fruitiness,
and such a unique fruitiness, and a spice.
I hate to see this go,
but I think this has got to stay.
This is really good,
but this is doing some very unique things for me.
This hurts me, Heartbeat Sauce,
especially 'cause you're tapping
into my hipster sensibility with the design.
Squirt a little bit in your mouth for the road
before you see it go away.
Okay, that was uneventful. Oh, it's sealed.
Bring it down.
We're sending the Beaver Duck away.
Or is it the Duck Beaver?
We're sending all ducks and all beavers away.
All right, rounding out our preliminary rounds,
we got the second seed,
Angry Goat Pepper Company's Hippy Dippy Green Hot Sauce
going up against the seventh seed
Fat Cat Strawberry Serrano Sauce.
So, again, another entry from Angry Goat Pepper Company.
What do you think about the artwork on this one?
You think a little baby did this one?
It's a psychedelic turtle,
so I think this is more just done by a hippie.
Interesting, this has avocado and kiwi in it.
I mean, a kiwi hot sauce?
You ever thought about that before?
No.
A lot of new flavors hitting my mouth today.
This is fun. It actually says
it would be good on Mexican cuisine.
Yep, that's right.
What do we got over here?
Well, Rhett, Strawberry Serrano
also has some pineapple juice in it.
Pretty thin here.
It's perfectly good, named after Tiggy,
the cat who started out thin, but ended up fat.
Wow.
I like a good cat backstory.
If you don't like strawberry, you're not gonna like that.
That's got so much strawberry flavor.
I don't eat a lot of jellies or jams.
This is my new jellies and jams.
It's just a hot sauce version.
This would be good on ice cream, too.
I'm feeling buzzed.
Yeah, I feel it, too.
My entire, I'm getting chills in my whole body.
Yeah. Like, I feel more awake.
There's parts of me coming alive
that haven't been alive in years.
I mean, I'm starting to think I wa-
You want me to tell you which ones?
No, I want more hot sauce in my life,
because I've never experienced all this fruity hot sauce.
This is an answer to a question I didn't know I had.
I'm in a fruity mood today.
Mm-hm.
And just because we're tasting fruity stuff.
This is great on some tacos.
I love how fruity that strawberry is.
Yeah, let's go total fruit.
Yeah, total fruit. And let's get rid
of the Angry Goat. Whoa, that was very slick.
In our first semifinal round,
we got the number one seed Dirty Dick's back.
Let's go back,
go back with the Dirty Dick's.
Versus Famous Dave's.
Mm.
Now, what am I tasting in there?
I'm still hoping for just a little bit more heat
to my taste. You know what?
Bananas, I knew that I was tasting bananas.
I couldn't put my finger on it.
Oh, that's why I shouldn't like it.
You know what it kinda has?
Now, I can taste it.
It has a little bit of a jerk thing that's going on.
I'm wrong about Dirty Dick's entirely.
I love it, and I hate it,
and Famous Dave's.
This is the pineapple king.
Also good on, like, a grilled chicken, I bet.
At this point, I know I said a lot of great things
about Famous Dave's, and I still like it,
but now that it's going up against a hot sauce,
what you said in the last round really
is echoing in my brain right now,
that it's a barbecue sauce.
It feels like a barbecue sauce.
Yeah, it's so thick.
I still feel like I prefer this one over Famous Dave's.
I'm voting for Famous Dave's,
and this puts us in a tiebreaker situation.
Oh, gosh.
Now, to stick with the fruit theme.
It's called the Berry Vacuum.
We're gonna do the Berry Vacuum,
and who can vacuum up all of these berries first,
their choice goes forward.
Oh, you mean just suck them hands free
right out of this ramekin,
and we gotta eat them,
or get them all in your mouth.
Get them outta the ramekin, into your mouth.
I got a little mouth, but I can chew fast.
Three.
I got a big mouth.
Two, one.
Oh, gosh.
There's too many berries.
Stop making those noises.
Whose idea was this?
Look away.
I got a raspberry blanket on the bottom of this.
I throw in the towel.
You win.
I can't, I mean, look at that.
My tongue is literally crushing this raspberry blanket.
I take issue with whoever put these berries in here,
and you did not put equal numbers
of equal berries in the ramekin.
Yes, I did. That was an important...
You did?
Yeah. Dirty Dick's,
you're outta here.
Rhett, you lost, just own it.
It's fine, it really wasn't that good anyway.
You're right.
All right, we got the number six seed,
Tabasco Chipotle Pepper Sauce,
versus number seven, Fat Cat Strawberry Serrano.
This is, like, the super fruity stuff
versus the super fruity stuff.
Fruit face off.
So berry forward.
I mean, we just ate a pile of berries, and still,
this knocks the socks off of it.
There's so many berries that went into this.
You can't out-berry it with berries.
Fat Cat over here.
Hm.
Tasting them side by side, I almost feel
like this has got too many berries in it.
This is an ice cream topping.
I mean, but that's fun.
It's good, I love both of these.
It's almost like a concentrate.
It packs so much of a punch.
I feel like I have to-
But, again, with Tabasco Sauce.
I have to wait on the peppers.
A little bit goes a long way, you know?
So it's like-
But you know what I'm not getting in this?
It is a concentrate.
I'm getting the feel that I'm eating a hot sauce,
but I'm not getting a flavor of any peppers.
Over here, I'm getting a strawberry hit
followed by, very quickly, right behind it,
a Serrano hit, which I like.
It makes me feel like I'm eating a hot sauce.
I like the flavor more.
I can't argue with that, my friend.
This is solid, though.
Tabasco, we will not forget
about your Raspberry Chipotle-ness any time soon,
but you're on ice.
Get out of here.
Okay, final round.
I mean, the four seed versus the seven seed.
Who knew?
Famous Dave's Pineapple Rage Sauce
versus Fat Cat Strawberry Serrano Hot Sauce.
I think the four and seven, what it says,
and before you eat, I just kinda wanna...
Before you eat the sauce.
You can't stop me
from eating, bro. Just wanna say,
it's like, I think we've been on quite a journey today.
We've discovered so much.
It was a lot of fun.
My buzz is wearing off, but it's anybody's game,
because the gamut is so wide.
I recommend pretty much anything that we tasted.
Now, we've said that this is more like a barbecue sauce,
so I need to find the heat.
I'm resetting my expectations.
It made it to the finals.
And this one has a good balance of heat and fruit,
but the fruit is strawberry.
Or maybe we could say, you know what?
Just put it in your mouth,
and which one tastes better?
The heat comes on the back end.
It is there, though,
and it is pronounced.
I do think a pineapple is a more classic pairing
with a hot sauce.
It's a little bit sweet.
For the strawberry, though?
In the wrong way, is my assessment.
This is super sweet, but in only a strawberry way.
All right.
And the Serrano comes so hard.
I don't wanna suck any more berries,
but I just wanna three, two, one it,
so don't say anything else. But sucking berries
was so fun to watch, hm.
I'm-a take a risk
to have to suck a berry.
Three, two, one.
Yes, we agree.
All right. All right, so,
we're kicking. That wasn't a psych out?
Famous Dave's to the curb.
And that means, against all odds.
Bring in the Sauce Yacht.
The Fat Cat Strawberry Serrano Hot Sauce,
a perfectly good mix of strawberry and Serrano.
Ooh.
It joins Buffalo Wild Wings Hot Wing Sauce
on the Smokin' Hot Hot Sauce Yacht.
Wow.
The Smokin' Hot Sauce Yacht.
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