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Torchbearer Son of Zombie Hot Sauce
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Son of Zombie Hot Sauce

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TorchBearer Son of Zombie is a hot, sweet and smoky sauce: honey, molasses and tomato with savory garlic, and a slow-building kick from ghost and habanero peppers. It was the fourth sauce on season 6 of Hot Ones.

TorchBearer rates it 6 out of 10. It placed among hot and extra hot wing sauces at the Spicy Flave Awards (third in 2023, second in 2025) and took second for hot specialty chile sauces at the 2025 Scovie Awards. Try it on wings, burgers, pulled pork and chicken fingers, or in dips. TorchBearer Sauces, in Lemoyne, Pennsylvania, began in 2005 after owner Vid Lynch and his friend Ben bottled a spare crop of habaneros with carrots, mandarin oranges and onions; its sauces use no pepper extracts.

Size: 5 fl oz

Made with

Ghost pepper Habanero Honey Garlic Lemon Mustard
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  • Tasted before we take a maker on, and every bottle is rated on our own heat scale
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BurgersDipsWingsChicken Fingers
Ingredients
Honey, Apple Cider Vinegar, Tomato Paste, Water, Garlic, Ghost Pepper, Habanero Pepper, Distilled White Vinegar, Brown Sugar, Canola Oil, Lemon Juice, Molasses, Mandarin Orange, Diced Tomato, Carrots, Mustard Powder, Turmeric, Garlic Powder, Onion, Salt, Crushed Red Pepper, White Sugar, Chili Powder, Oregano, Black Pepper
Specs
  • Heat Hot on the SCOVILLED scale
  • Maker Torchbearer Sauces
  • Peppers Ghost, Habanero
  • As seen on Hot Ones, Season 6 #4
  • SKU 7622
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Torchbearer Son of Zombie Hot Sauce
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About the maker

Torchbearer Sauces

Pennsylvania’s TorchBearer Sauces has been making bold, all-natural sauces since 2005, and it’s a Hot Ones regular.

Founded in Mechanicsburg by three friends, TorchBearer made its name with Garlic Reaper, built on its mild Oh My Garlic! sauce, which became a Hot Ones favorite. Superhots like Zombie Apocalypse, Son of Zombie and Ultimate Annihilation sit at the top of a huge range that also has plenty of mild and medium bottles, like Sweet Onion Habanero, Honey Badger, Headless Horseradish and Danny Wood Jalapeño, plus barbecue and wing sauces.

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30,000–350,000 SHU on the SCOVILLED scale. Habanero territory: heat that lingers, with room left for flavor.

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