TorchBearer Sauces The Rapture Trinidad Scorpion Pepper Hot Sauce, 5 Fl Oz - Deadly Hot - All Natural, Vegan, Extract-Free, Made in USA

This sauce was EXACTLY what I was hoping for - a sauce that tastes like the chili (Scorpion), not vinegar or a bunch of other ingredients. I had the chance to taste the Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia) this Fall at a chili contest in Europe. Wow, I loved that flavor! But nobody at the contest had it available, so I went home with a bottle of Trinidad Scorpion sauce instead. Like most sauces, the main flavor was vinegar (and in this case, sugar), but the Scorpion flavor was there and it was really good. Thus began my search for a higher quality Scorpion sauce, which led me to Rapture, that tastes EXACTLY like the pepper and not a bunch of other ingredients. (And it's hot enough to melt your face off on a snowy day, as well, which is awesome!) Since then, I tried the Torchbearer Zombie Apocalypse sauce as well, which is made from the Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia), and loved it as well. Like you probably, most sauces I've had over the years (pretty much nearly all) tend to have vinegar as their dominant flavor. That's the first thing you taste, and you "get through it" so that you can enjoy the pepper. But even so, it's rare to the point of nonexistent that you really even taste the chilli itself. Pretty much the only thing that differentiates most sauces from each other regardless of what chili they claim to be made from is the degree of burn. That, and all the flavors of the 'other' ingredients besides the chili, as in black pepper, or sugar, or cumin or whatever. It's to the point really that I think most people couldn't even say what chili a sauce is made from, as you don't really taste it anyway. Torchbearer sauces in my opinion are really different, in that of the three of their sauces I've now tried have the dominant flavor actually coming from the chili pepper itself! And not a bunch of other junk they add to the sauce. Not only that, but the heat itself comes from the chili, not chemical extracts and other weird stuff that tastes awful and gives you a terrible stomach ache and flames coming from various parts of your body! Don't get me wrong, they do sell other sauces with multiple flavor ingredients for cooking, burgers and the like. But they're chili sauces taste like... well, the chili they're made from. Amazing! So if you're looking for a high quality sauce that actually tastes like fresh Scorpion peppers (two kinds), then you've found it! (Or Ghost peppers, then go for the Zombie). Both are worth the premium price as you'll know the moment this stuff hits your tongue that you've found your new favorite high-quality chili sauce! Enjoy! An Additional Note: Since these sauces use much less vinegar than normal hot sauces, they have to be refrigerated after you open them. If you open your sauce and let it sit out on the counter it will go bad fairly quickly, as I've had the experience of finding out. Also, I called the company about why the sauces cost so much. They told me it's just their "superhot" sauces that do, (others they make are a lot cheaper), because they are indeed made from mostly the chili they list on the ingredient label. They don't use a bunch of fillers, dried powders, vinegar, chemical extracts etc., and so they obviously cost them a lot more to make. Finally, remember that the dominant flavor of the Rapture and the Zombie sauces is indeed the chili: Ghost Pepper in the case of Zombie, Scorpion in Rapture. If you're looking for fruit flavors, or other spices like I think a good Vindaloo is made from, then these would not work "as is" but as an addition to other flavors you'd add to a sauce. They are strictly "chili" sauce, not "sauce made with chili" and other ingredients, if that makes sense. And to me, that's exactly what they taste like: the chili. Enjoy!

Rapture 2.0 (sometimes just called Rapture but 2.0 is visible on the label) is tied as one of the two hottest sauces without extract that I have tried. It has a dark color, has a pleasant visual texture that reminds me of fruit preserves (I’m guessing what I’m seeing is seeds) and is thin enough to poor easily but a little thicker than some competing sauces. It tastes a heck of a lot better than Da Bomb Beyond Insanity (or even Evolution) and the disappointingly mild (at least compared to advertising even though it’s still on the upper end of medium hot) Last Dab Xperience. Recently my journey to try the hottest hot sauces without pepper extract led me through many sauces from a variety of companies and after starting to think that even extract free sauces needed to taste bad to be especially hot, I came across the two hottest sauces without extract that I had tried in the same day. The Rapture 2.0 is one of them with 66% peppers and a burn that, while lacking the type of burn found in extract sauces like Beyond Insanity, is about as hot as you can get without it , tastes much better and doesn’t give extract related stomach cramps. The blend of peppers in Rapture and the sauce it tied with is very similar with both featuring scorpion, reaper and habanero at the very start of their respective ingredient lists but they also both hit slightly differently. While the heat in Rapture 2.0 hits many places the one I noticed most in comparison to Elijah’s Xtreme Regret Reserve (the sauce it tied with) is the upper chest while Regret Reserve’s heat was stronger in the throat by comparison. Rapture 2.0 is darker, thicker and has a more complex texture compared to Regret Reserve but the two are very similar and both taste surprisingly good for this level of heat (though don’t go expecting the complex profile of a mild sauce like Neal’s Real Deal Smoked Onion) and I happily use both of them on my food several times a day without worrying that things will taste worst (I’m looking at you Last Dab Xperience) or give me stomach cramps (unlike Beyond Insanity). The sauce met my expectations in heat and exceeded them in taste and utility. One of the hottest non-extract sauces on the market today and at its current price (as of March 2025) is a great value for the money.

Despite being the hottest sauce I’ve had, it’s far more tolerable than others. The flavour is genuinely amazing

I’m no stranger to hot sauces and Torchbearer’s Rapture 2.0 packs a thunderous smack of heat from five of the hottest chillies on the planet all crammed into one great sauce. This lacks the emphasis on flavour that their Garlic Reaper sauce has but for those looking to seriously test their tolerance for heat, there’s few natural sauces out there to compete with this. A sauce for serious chilli heads.

Hot and delicious! 100% recommended for strong types with asbestos covered mouths.

Definitely not anywhere near the advertised scoville rating. Probably a bit hotter than extra hot encona and definitely not as hot as the garlic reaper. Tastes nice though so would buy again.

Excellent for a hot wings challenge