Chez-williams.com compiles a list of the world's hottest sauces, and we're already sweating just from read ing it. To give you an idea: Tabasco sauce doesn't even make it to the list, scoring only 2,140 in Scoville units.

Scoville units? How is the spiciness of food measured, anyway? Capsaicin is the chemical in hot peppers that is responsible for their heat. Named after pharmacist Wilbur Scoville, Scoville units measures capsaicin in peppers, with bell pepper having zero Scoville units and habanero peppers having  100,000 to 300,000 Scoville units.

Starting from the bottom, we picked out some sauces to show their scale in Scoville units.

1. Dead Heat - Hot Sauce Harry's limited edition, coming only in 600 bottles, has a Scoville rating of 100,000 units. It even comes with its own coffin and death certificate.
2. Not Cool Chocolate Habanero Sauce - Coming from a patent pending cultivar and rating at 225,000 Scoville units, this sauce has the flavors of coffee and cocoa.
3. Dave's Private Reserve - Claimed to be the first and only product ever to be banned from the National Fiery Foods Show, this sauce scores 300,000 Scoville units. Every bottle has been hand-signed, numbered and dated by Dave.
4. Hard Time Humble Sauce - 400,000 Scoville units in a bottle of Red Savina habaneros.
5. Pure Cap - This mixture of vegetable oil and capsaicin has a rating of 500,000 Scoville units and is 100 times hotter than a Jalapeno.
6. Smack My Ass and Call Me Sally...The Slap Heard Around the World - Despite the silly name, this sauce has been featured in national magazines, and rated having 700,000 Scoville units. It's the hottest condiment on earth.
7. Satan's Blood - Said to have been conceived during a full moon on Friday the 13th in October, 2000. It's chili extract and red wine vinegar, coming at 800,000 Scoville units.
8. Mad Dog's Revenge - Scoring at 1,000,000 Scoville units, this product is not a hot sauce or a condiment, but a chili extract to be used in recipes by the drops as food additive only.
9. Demon Ichor - One of the most potent, ready to use pepper extracts available in the market, scoring 2,000,000 Scoville units.
10. Blair's Caldera - A collectible item with pure capsaicin crytals suspended in oil. It scores 10,000,000 Scoville units.

We recommend you not to use the poisonous crystals of the latter part of the list, but for the record, chilies are healthy. Capsaicin in peppers lowers blood pressure, reduces cholesterol, wards off strokes and heart attacks, speeds up metabolism, treats colds and fevers, prevents cancer and controls pain.