The Indian ghost pepper is the latest hot sauce makers pepper craze.

Many Manufacturer’s of hot sauces have started to create hot sauce concoctions chock fullof bhut jolokia peppers. Bhut Jolokia sauce is incredibly hot without the need of pepper extracts.
The bhut jolokia chili pepper will fire up taste buds with flavor and heat. The thumb-sized chilies are so potently hot they could be used in pepper spray, says the director of India's Defense Research Lab, R.B. Srivastava. "I've been told the U.S. and Israel have considered it for antiriot material," he says.

The bhut jolokia pepper also known as the ghost pepper, which is harvested in the northeast part of India, was recently declared it the world's hottest pepper in the Guinness Book of World Records. The bhut jolokia is rated at one million scovilles. The famous heat measuring technique named after Wilbur Lincoln Scoville, a chemist who in 1912 developed a method of assessing the heat given off by capsaicin, the active ingredient in chili peppers.

"When you eat it, it feels like dying," touts one online retailer. Even packaging the stuff is a pain. "Our workers wear goggles, face masks, head cover and protective clothing," says Ananta Saikia, whose firm is the pepper's sole exporter. "They look like astronauts." He and his wife have started shipping tons of dried bhut jolokia around the world, including Germany, England and the U.S.

Locals here in Assam and the neighboring states of Manipur and Nagaland add fresh chopped chilies to the pot when cooking curries. The hardiest eat them raw as a condiment. Dried pepper powder and flakes are sold online in the U.S. and abroad.

Try some our Bhut Jolokia or Ghost Pepper Hot Sauces below: