Dave's GourmetNaga Jolokia Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce 148 ml

After I tried a bottle of Tabasco's Scorpion special edition I found the Habarnero one no longer provided the necessary pain on my bacon and eggs. So I upgraded to this. It's much hotter than even the Tabasco Scorpion sauce, so it took a little getting used to. Then I tried a few other sauces, including Dave's Scorpion sauce, Z: Nothing Beyond, Who Dares Burns: Second Assault and finally Dave's Ultimate Insanity, but in the end I have come back to this one. It has the heat AND the taste. Dave's Scorpion sauce is very hot but has no extract, so it lacks the lava-like sensation (great chilli flavour though). Z is very tasty and very, very hot, but also very sweet. Who Dares Burns 2 and esp Dave's Ultimate Insanity taste awful, though certainly delivers the magma. In fairness to the latter, it's intended to be added to food as an ingredient, not a condiment, so I'm not using it properly. So perhaps use that for your curries/chillis, but use the Ghost Pepper one for your bacon and eggs, etc. Fantastic heat with a nice, strong chilli flavour without being sweet. Heat level: if you like vindaloos, or even phals, this sauce is for you. Otherwise you will find its heat genuinely alarming. Actually, even if you do like those curries, this will still surprise you!

Being a lover of hot chili sauces - I use Tabasco every day, and once drank a bottle to win 10 roubles - I thought I knew what chili heat could do. I had tried Dave's Insanity before, and had to have a bottle of their Ghost Pepper sauce, reputed to be very, very much hotter. Opening the bottle, I dipped my little finger in to try it. With just a tiny, tiny speck on my finger, almost invisible, I licked it. Wow!!!The heat starts off pretty easy, but then develops over the upper palate with a kind of icy capsaicin burn. The spot where I put it on my tongue quickly felt swollen, and soon the tip of my tongue went numb as it spread through my mouth. This is HOT!The most surprising thing is that from start to finish this sauce has a really delicious, well developed and rounded pepper taste. Unlike other very hot sauces that try for the heavyweight title, there is real depth and flavour here, which will certainly add more than just heat to any curry. chilli-con-carne or salsa.The sauce gradually wore off my palate until after 4 or 5 mins there was just a lovely pepper fruit flavour wafting in and out of my sinuses as I took a breath.In conclusion, this is not only one of the very hottest chili sauces, but in my experience the best flavoured as well. Of course, everything has its place, but I can really see this playing a major part in my kitchen not only as a condiment to scare guests with, but as a valued and versatile ingredient.By the way, well done to Hot-Headz, who got this excellent product to my door in 48hrs with a Bank Holiday in-between!

I first had this in America, if your no familiar with the Ghost Pepper then do a quick search on Youtube. This is a great way to experience the extreme hotness.If you are not familiar with the Scoville scale, its the measurement of the pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy foods as reported in Scoville heat units (SHU).To put it in perspective a Jalapeño pepper is about 1000 SHUthis stuff, the ghost pepper is upwards of 1,000,000 SHUI hunted for this Ghost Pepper for a while, I love getting it out at BBQ's and when having guests over for dinner.Do you want to try the hot sauce? sure! no one is ever disappointed. You only need 1 drop, no joke 1 drop, often 1 drop added to a curry dish is enough. If you just put your finger on it and taste it will be really hot not the best way to try, I like to mix a few drops with salsa or BBQ sauce to give it a nice kick. I have found mixing it into other sauces makes it tolerable.Keep away from kids and pets. Careful you don't get any on your fingers and then touch your nose or eyes.Enjoy!

Having tried "Blair's Pure Death" sauce and found it nice and tasty but rather weak, I decided on this "Insanity" sauce which I hoped would be more challenging. I had a first try with this sauce in a beef and bean chilli last night. It gave a good quality burning sensation eventually without overpowering the taste of the meal, but I didnt find it as potent as some of the other reviewers seem to think. I started off very carefully, adding 5 drops at first, but ended up putting in a generous teaspoon (into about 600 ml of the chilli sauce). It's fine, and one bottle should do quite a few more meals so is good value - compared to the Blair's stuff which lasted less than a week! But after the hype I wouldn't call it Insanely hot.I couldnt resist trying some of the sauce straight out of the bottle, due to the warnings not to! I put 3 drops on a teaspoon and took it. Yes, it was bleeding hot, especially stinging on the lips, but NOTHING like as painful as biting into a large bit of fresh Naga pod, which I did accidently once and felt like a hot poker in the gob! A bit of experimentation showed a 20:1 dilution in a barbecue/tomato sauce made an acceptable but still challenging dipping sauce. In summary, a good bang for your buck but hardly "Hell in a bottle".

Very very hot but a lovely flavour. Only a drop required to give a lot of heat in any cooking.Ghost pepper is my favourite flavour and this hits the spot 😋

I had this sauce for almost a year now and just ordered another bottle after testing a few other brands.This sauce is quite hot and good for if you're looking to grow the level of scoville beyond what you can get in high-street shops. But what stands out compared to other sauces I tried is that it has its own very strong flavour. Not only this makes it delicious, but it helped me adding more and more sauce to my dish over time. Soon, I didn't just want to add more because it was hot, but because I'm absolutely craving the taste.