Hot sauces are spicy condiments, sauces and seasonings that use chilli peppers as one of their primary ingredients. They are also known as pepper sauces and chilli sauces. In the U.S., commercial hot sauces are graded according to their quality, which criterion includes flavour, absence of defects, consistency, colouration and character.
Hot sauces are strongly associated with the U.S., but they are also common in other countries of the Americas and the Caribbean. Outside the Americas, they are most common in the United Kingdom and Australia. There is a specific scale for measuring the heat of a hot sauce, known as the Scoville scale. Tabasco sauce is rather at only 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units, making it one of the mildest commercially available sauces around. One of the hottest is Blair's 16 Million Reserve, and the Scoville scale only goes up to 16 million units.
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