Tabasco sauce is a brand of hot sauce made from tabasco peppers (Capsicum frutescens var. tabasco), vinegar, and salt, and aged in white oak barrels for three years. It has a hot, spicy flavor and is popular in many parts of the world.Tabasco is trademarked as the brand name for the variety of tabasco sauce marketed by one of the United States' biggest makers of hot sauce, the McIlhenny Company of Avery Island, Louisiana. Often, the word "tabasco" is rendered in lowercase when referring to the botanical variety, but in uppercase, "Tabasco," when referring to the actual trademarked brand name. While there are many other kinds on the market, Tabasco is the most famous brand of "hot pepper sauce". Although it is produced in the United States, it acquired its name from the state of Tabasco in Mexico.The McIlhenny Company is now in its fifth generation as a family-run business. All of the 145 shareholders either inherited their stock or were given it from another living family member.

The pepper is about 2000 times hotter than the hottest Tabasco sauce sold in most stores, the reporter takes a bite, then after trying to put the fire out, makes the mistake of taking another!

Whether you eat pepper sauce with every meal or you’re just stockpiling for Y3K, Tabasco now offers their hot sauces in one gallon jugs for $38.95. You can test your taste buds with Traditional, Habanero, Green Pepper, Chipotle Pepper, or Garlic Pepper in these gigantic containers.

This guy tried to eat a habanero pepper rates between 200,000 to 300,000 scoville units. Tabasco sauce by comparison is only 7000 units. Enjoy the face melting!

ds Tabasco, to taste -(or other hot pepper -sauce) Cut off spurs from chicken wing-tips and rinse chicken wings.

Pepper "hotness" is measured in Scoville Heat Units (SHU). For a comparison, pepper spray (the stuff you spray on an attacker, not in him) is measured at 2,000,000 - 5,300,000 SHU. A plain old bell pepper is measured at 0 SHU. Tabasco Sauce is 2500-5000 SHU. Hopefully that gives you a sense of scale. How about over 1,000,000 SHU?