Question: is piri piri sauce hot?
Answer: This pepper is hot for sure, but, with a Scoville ranking of 175,000 piri piri ranks at the bottom end of 'habanero-hot'. By comparison, bell peppers and banana peppers rate between 100 and 900 Scoville units, while the very hottest peppers clock in at a whopping 2,000,000 (that's million) units!