'Pepper X' Creator Ed Currie Tries 32 Hot Sauces | Epicurious

Professional hot sauce maker Smokin’ Ed Currie, the founder and president of PuckerButt Pepper Company, returns to Epicurious to demystify hot sauce labels and classify some of the many varieties available into categories of hotness. Which ones come in on the mild side and which ones push the envelope on heat?

0:00 Sauce It Up
0:43 Table Sauces (Mild)
2:47 Warming Up (Hint of Spice)
6:46 Wild Cards (Flavored)
9:13 XXX Sauces (Wild)
14:08 Cool It Down (Dessert)

Director: Cory Cavin
Director of Photography: Kevin Dynia
Editor: LJ D'Arpa
Host: Ed Currie
Director of Culinary Production: Kelly Janke
Creative Producer: Lisa Paradise
Coordinating Producer: Tommy Werner
Culinary Producer: Kat Boytsova
Culinary Associate Producer: Katrina Zito
Line Producer: Jen McGinity
Associate Producer: Amy Haskour
Production Manager: Janine Dispensa
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes
Talent Booker: Cynthia Simpson
Camera Operator: Will Boone
Assistant Camera: Tony Aviles
Sound Mixer: Rachel Suffian
Production Assistant: Brianna Figueroa
Culinary Assistant: Leslie Raney
Staff Editorial Consultant: Ryan Harrington
Researcher: Vivian Jao
Post Production Supervisor: Andrea Farr
Post Production Coordinator: Scout Alter
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araújo
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
Graphics Supervisor: Ross Rackin
VFX: Léa Kichler



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[AReardon]

"Oh excuse me, I picked up the wrong one. I am stoned out of my mind." Never change, Ed

[AutismArchon]

The fact he can talk through the 1M+ Scoville peppers is truly amazing.

[lysolmax]

This is literally the last guy you should ask advice for what is considered hot or not.

[heysogo]

I love how he showed almost no emotion on the mild sauces, but as soon as he popped open a hot one, he cracked a big smile and started showing enthusiasm. That says it all about how truly passionate he is about hot peppers!

[gustie]

Ed Currie should do a 4 levels style video, but with a hot sauce amateur, a hot sauce connoisseur, himself as a hot sauce expert, and then a culinary chemist.

[tite]

"The bourbon flavor comes through first"
"No heat at all, I'd put this in a baby bottle!"

Never change, Ed

[KhaledArafa]

The fact that he keeps tasting the hot sauces on that small spoon like ice cream, going up the Scoville scale over a million units while giving his expert opinion in a very nonchalant way it's beyond legendary.

[shaunwann]

You’ve inspired me to quit drinking 4 years ago. I am still clean. I replaced my addiction with doing super hot pepper sauces and growing them. Thank you for inspiring me that there is more to life than drinking my life away…❤

[julesgro]

You can bring Ed as often as you can.
Won´t get tired of it :D

[NoName-fryd]

The HUGE smile when he pulls out the chicken makes my heart warm up!

[ExtinctionHazard]

I love how he says “I use this on absolutely everything! It’s horrid don’t even think of trying it!”😂😂

[dannyl]

Ed should go on Hot Ones but he picks the sauces

[jonnibelugabat]

Please keep this Pepper Ed content coming 😎

[artpro]

My father is in his endgame of Parkinson disease. Our family has lived with it for more than a decade. Watching Mr. Currie's shaking makes me feel for him. I'm not a doctor, but his bahaviour makes me think of my father when the symptoms were first detectable.

[goe]

For the simplicity, I love Tabasco sauce! No artificial stuff, just three ingredients kept in white oak barrels for 3 years. Made with love ❤︎

[louderthangod]

His version of “no heat at all” is radically different than mine. I have a friend that just barely tastes even extremely spicy things, they didn’t build up tolerance, they’re just nearly insensitive to it, I suspect he’s similar.

[BardKim]

His enthusiasm and expertise on chilis is just a joy to witness! Thanks Ed!

[tomdyer]

The fact his last name is ‘Curry’ and he makes hot sauce is just hilarious to me. He was born for this 😅

[ashleyshanks]

He makes me proud to be a Sriracha fan. Pretty warm praise for a hot sauce he had on the "not hot" side. I know I'm no hardcore spice addict, but I do have taste.

[MerdaPura]

It's interesting to see how Ed's sauces have no added preservatives, the pasteurization added to a controlled pH enviroment keeps the bottle sterile