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Chicken pot die (pie), blazing steak tips, hot ice cream, etc. Family life has tamed that expression, but I still enjoy hot sauces.\nI collected hot sauces to use in cooking. Right when we were really getting in to collecting hot sauces Blair's released the [16M Reserve](https://www.hotsauce.com/Blair-s-16-Million-Reserve-Crystals-p/misc-blairs-16-million.htm), a limited edition run of 999 bottles of pure capsaicin. We ended up getting a LOT of bottles of it and it wasn't cheap. We opened a couple but most of them were kept for the story, more than the purpose. The Blair's 16M Reserve got recognized by the [Guinness Book of Records](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair%27s_Sauces_and_Snacks#16_Million_Reserve) which made the story even better!\n\n### About my bottle\nMy bottle has sat on my shelf in my office for all these years (more than 10) and I have finally decided to test the water and see if I can sell it for with a good return. I did a lot of googling to see if anyone actually has it listed for sale but come up blank. Lots of lore, not much in the way of recent activity.\n\n![](/content/images/2017/04/IMG_0542.JPG)\n![](/content/images/2017/04/IMG_0543.JPG)\n\nAs you can see the bottle is signed and numbered. Mine is **746**/999. Overall it is in great condition, the only issues it has are in the outer plastic box which has a few age cracks in it.\n\n![](/content/images/2017/04/IMG_0550.JPG)\n\nThis is an amazing piece of hot sauce history, there is a lot of lore about it on the internet. Sure, there are plenty of 16M capsaicin products out on the market now, but this was the **FIRST** one sold as a hot sauce product.\n\n![](/content/images/2017/04/IMG_0546.JPG)\n![](/content/images/2017/04/IMG_0547.JPG)\n\n### Hot sauce lore and history\nThis particular item has a lot of internet lore, a lot of people did crazy challenges with it when it first came out. As it was the first of its kind, it was recognized in the Guinness Book of Records. There are a lot of funny reviews posted on the sites that used to sell it.\n\n* https://www.hotsauce.com/Blair-s-16-Million-Reserve-Crystals-p/misc-blairs-16-million.htm\n* http://uncrate.com/article/blairs-16-million-reserve/\n\n\nAnd a ton of reviews on hot sauce review sites:\n\n* http://www.thegreenhead.com/2007/07/blairs-16-million-reserve-worlds-hottest-hot-sauce.php\n* http://www.hotsauceblog.com/hotsaucearchives/blairs-16-million-product-review/\n* http://didntyouhear.com/blairs-16-million-is-hot/\n* http://www.craveonline.com/mandatory/1067530-these-hottest-hot-sauces-will-burn-your-life-down\n\nIt still sits at the top of hot sauce heat lists:\n\n* http://www.scottrobertsweb.com/scoville-scale/\n* http://www.chez-williams.com/Hot%20Sauce/hothome.htm\n* http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/04/25-awesome-hot-sauces-that-every-man-needs-to-try/\n\nAnd it even has news articles writen about it! \n\n* http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1489595/This-chilli-is-so-hot-youd-have-to-drink-250000-gallons-of-water-just-to-put-out-the-fire.html\n\n### YouTube\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/tHZ5TwcGcyQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c/iframe\u003e\n\n\n### Wrapping up\nAs you can see, Blair's 16M Reserve Crystals are a piece of Hot Sauce history.\n\n#AND I SOLD IT!\n","html":"\u003ch3\u003eThe History\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack in the day we were all obsessed with hot sauces. We used to make everything super spicy. Chicken pot die (pie), blazing steak tips, hot ice cream, etc. Family life has tamed that expression, but I still enjoy hot sauces.\nI collected hot sauces to use in cooking. Right when we were really getting in to collecting hot sauces Blair\u0026#39;s released the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hotsauce.com/Blair-s-16-Million-Reserve-Crystals-p/misc-blairs-16-million.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e16M Reserve\u003c/a\u003e, a limited edition run of 999 bottles of pure capsaicin. We ended up getting a LOT of bottles of it and it wasn\u0026#39;t cheap. We opened a couple but most of them were kept for the story, more than the purpose. The Blair\u0026#39;s 16M Reserve got recognized by the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair%27s_Sauces_and_Snacks#16_Million_Reserve\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eGuinness Book of Records\u003c/a\u003e which made the story even better!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout my bottle\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy bottle has sat on my shelf in my office for all these years (more than 10) and I have finally decided to test the water and see if I can sell it for with a good return. I did a lot of googling to see if anyone actually has it listed for sale but come up blank. Lots of lore, not much in the way of recent activity.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"/content/images/2017/04/IMG_0542.JPG\" alt=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"/content/images/2017/04/IMG_0543.JPG\" alt=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs you can see the bottle is signed and numbered. Mine is \u003cstrong\u003e746\u003c/strong\u003e/999. Overall it is in great condition, the only issues it has are in the outer plastic box which has a few age cracks in it.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"/content/images/2017/04/IMG_0550.JPG\" alt=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is an amazing piece of hot sauce history, there is a lot of lore about it on the internet. Sure, there are plenty of 16M capsaicin products out on the market now, but this was the \u003cstrong\u003eFIRST\u003c/strong\u003e one sold as a hot sauce product.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"/content/images/2017/04/IMG_0546.JPG\" alt=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"/content/images/2017/04/IMG_0547.JPG\" alt=\"\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHot sauce lore and history\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis particular item has a lot of internet lore, a lot of people did crazy challenges with it when it first came out. As it was the first of its kind, it was recognized in the Guinness Book of Records. There are a lot of funny reviews posted on the sites that used to sell it.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.hotsauce.com/Blair-s-16-Million-Reserve-Crystals-p/misc-blairs-16-million.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttps://www.hotsauce.com/Blair-s-16-Million-Reserve-Crystals-p/misc-blairs-16-million.htm\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://uncrate.com/article/blairs-16-million-reserve/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://uncrate.com/article/blairs-16-million-reserve/\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd a ton of reviews on hot sauce review sites:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.thegreenhead.com/2007/07/blairs-16-million-reserve-worlds-hottest-hot-sauce.php\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.thegreenhead.com/2007/07/blairs-16-million-reserve-worlds-hottest-hot-sauce.php\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.hotsauceblog.com/hotsaucearchives/blairs-16-million-product-review/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.hotsauceblog.com/hotsaucearchives/blairs-16-million-product-review/\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://didntyouhear.com/blairs-16-million-is-hot/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://didntyouhear.com/blairs-16-million-is-hot/\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.craveonline.com/mandatory/1067530-these-hottest-hot-sauces-will-burn-your-life-down\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.craveonline.com/mandatory/1067530-these-hottest-hot-sauces-will-burn-your-life-down\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt still sits at the top of hot sauce heat lists:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.scottrobertsweb.com/scoville-scale/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.scottrobertsweb.com/scoville-scale/\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.chez-williams.com/Hot%20Sauce/hothome.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.chez-williams.com/Hot%20Sauce/hothome.htm\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/04/25-awesome-hot-sauces-that-every-man-needs-to-try/\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/04/25-awesome-hot-sauces-that-every-man-needs-to-try/\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd it even has news articles writen about it!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1489595/This-chilli-is-so-hot-youd-have-to-drink-250000-gallons-of-water-just-to-put-out-the-fire.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003ehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1489595/This-chilli-is-so-hot-youd-have-to-drink-250000-gallons-of-water-just-to-put-out-the-fire.html\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eYouTube\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/tHZ5TwcGcyQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c/iframe\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWrapping up\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs you can see, Blair\u0026#39;s 16M Reserve Crystals are a piece of Hot Sauce history.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003eAND I SOLD IT!\u003c/h1\u003e\n","excerpt":"","metaTitle":"","metaDescription":"","status":"published","featured":false,"publishedAt":"2017-04-08T13:29:39Z","authorId":"190160de54f2192bd5b8734ec8808086","authorName":"Daniel Chote","authorSlug":"daniel","heroMediaId":"1cc1320edb76e37d8c73f89e953723b2","projectId":"","tags":[{"id":"7ef3cdcf8e47cee737f388c91b8d31c2","name":"hot sauce","slug":"hot-sauce"},{"id":"563992072f5e0afa71d5088802e94aab","name":"blair's","slug":"blairs"}],"createdAt":"2026-10-18T13:16:27Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-18T13:16:27Z"}],"site":{"id":"projectable","theme":"projectable","title":"Daniel Chote's Project Blog","description":"Software Development, Hardware Hacking, Sim Racing, Multirotors and Robots!","timezone":"America/New_York","postsPerPage":10,"logoMediaId":"21557257b3f2ecc4b3fa875b808097a7","coverMediaId":"25f1417193daeb2af73861aaa0dd17fd","copyright":"© Daniel Chote","twitterUrl":"https://twitter.com/dchote","linkedinUrl":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/dchote","googleTagId":"G-07GJBQVM38","hosts":[{"host":"new.projectable.me","canonical":false},{"host":"projectable.me","canonical":true},{"host":"www.projectable.me","canonical":false}]},"tag":{"name":"blair's","slug":"blairs"},"tagId":"563992072f5e0afa71d5088802e94aab","total":1}