Hot Ones is celebrating a round-number milestone with a special promotion. YouTube’s spiciest interview series is linking up with Grubhub to deliver its wings and sauces to New York City residents.
The promotion includes multiple menu items, including six-piece and 12-piece wing orders. Chicken and vegetarian sandwiches are also available. The Hot Ones foodstuffs come covered in the show’s signature sauces, including its “Los Calientes Rojo” and “The Classic Chili Maple” varieties.
According to Grubhub, the Hot Ones menu is available “across select locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.” It’s not the first time the Complex Networks show has expanded into the realm of food delivery. Last year, the Hot Ones team joined forces with a New York City institution — Shake Shack — to debut a red-hot line of menu items.
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The latest Hot Ones promotion is more than just a taste test of internet-famous sauces. It’s also a celebration of the show’s remarkable longevity. Across 300 episodes, Hot Ones has brought billions of views to the First We Feast channel. Its most-watched installment, a sitdown with chef Gordon Ramsay, has collected 118 million views all on its own.
The 300th Hot Ones installment is likely to add millions more views to that impressive total. In the milestone episode, host Sean Evans sits down with comedian John Mulaney, who makes his first attempt to complete the Hot Ones gauntlet. Mulaney’s personal life has been in the news over the past year, so Evans has a lot of material to choose from for the “burning questions” segment of his interview.
Hot Ones creator Chris Schonberger spoke about the show’s impact in a recent interview with Variety. “It’s maybe cliche, but the assumption is that celebrities hate doing press and every junket is a slog,” Schonberger said. “When they do Hot Ones, not only does it deliver for them in terms of getting eyeballs, but it’s also a crazy experience that you would talk about at a dinner party. It’s a badge of honor.”
Schonberger also spoke with Variety about the first Hot Ones spinoff, which will star N.Y.C.-based restaurateur Esther Choi. In Heat Eaters, which will run for six-episodes, Choi will explore how food cultures around the world deploy spice in their cooking.
