
Wings two through nine are basically at the hottest levels of Scovilles for each position in the history of the show. Although the first wing in season 6 is weak, it can lull you into a false sense of security, as a rocket is about to take-off. Depsite this fact, I think season 6 offers the toughest lineup in the series' history (in term of Scovilles). The Last Dab Reduxx was introduced in season 6, which dropped the Scovilles in the last wing to 'only' 2 million. Interestingly, the jump in hot sauce on the tenth wing in season 1 (Mad Dog 357) to The Last Dab on season 4-6, is roughly the same as the jump for wing five in season 1 and season 6. This 3.3 million Scoville sauce is far and above the hottest sauce they've featured on the show. The introduction of the Hot Ones' original hot sauce, The Last Dab, in season 4 was a game changer in terms of Scovilles on the Show. Seasons 5 and 6 really cranked up the heat here too though. You can see this in the log transformed figure. The spike we see at position five is, in part, pronounced because season 1's hot sauce had fewer Scovilles than the fourth wing of that lineup. It also had the widest range in Scovilles in all the seasons.Īlthough this figure allows us to see the general pattern, the overlapping nature of the data makes it difficult to readily understand how the Scovilles have changed over the seasons.īy plotting the data points by their relation to season 1, we can more clearly see how the hot sauces evolved in their Scovilles across the seasons. It had the slowest uptake in Scovilles, but rose quickly thereafter.

Season 6 presents the hottest wings from 2-6 span of wings. You can see from the figure that season 6 has higher Scovilles in the middle of the wing array than any previous season. When intrepreting the figure, keep in mind that because of the scaling the same vertical distance, spatially, at the lower y-levels includes less numbers than at the upper regions. This was done in response to the skewed and wide ranging nature of the data. Scovilles of Hot Ones' wing lineups across all six seasons.Ī log 10 transformation was used for the above figure.
