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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