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

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.

Good flavor, good heat. Will buy again, but the Zombie Apocolypse is better in both heat and flavor.

First thing’s first - this sauce is incredibly delicious. As far as flavor goes it’s definitely in my top 5. Due to the price I’ll probably use it more in moderation but I think I’ll always have a bottle on hand. This stuff tastes super fresh and I love that it uses all natural ingredients.Where it doesn’t quite live up to its hype is in the heat department. Don’t get me wrong, this packs a punch for sure, but it’s not nearly as hot as I thought it was going to be.I saw that this claims to be 1.2M SHUs and I was scared. It brought me back to the days when Blair’s 3AM extract (which is roughly the same) would absolutely knock me on my bum. I cautiously put the tiniest amount on a french fry and ate it. I was waiting for the heat to build to a moderate level but I only felt a whisper. I shook the bottle making sure to mix up all the good bits, tried again with just a touch, and same thing.I finally dipped a fry in it similar to how you would dip a fry in ketchup and - ahh yeah - that was the good stuff. I felt a nice rolling burn that lasted a couple minutes and then faded away. Still though, for the amount of sauce I put on my fry I was expecting to get absolutely blasted. Even Da Bomb (which is less than 200K SHUs) blasts me way harder than this. The difference is that Da Bomb is made with extracts so the oily extract might coat the mouth more and cause a different kind of pain, whereas these ingredients are all natural. I finally put a very healthy double-dollop on a chip and that sent me somewhere nice, though only briefly.I’m not some macho overly testosterone’d guy who pretends that heat doesn’t affect me. Da Bomb knocks me out, Mad Dog 357 puts me in pain, even eating a raw habanero leaves me panting, but this sauce just isn’t what I was hoping for. To me this feels like 100-150K SHUs, certainly nowhere near 10X that.Luckily the amazing flavor saves this sauce.

Good