Dave's Gourmet Insanity Sauce

What the bottle says...
The original hottest sauce in the universe! A great cooking ingredient for sauces, soups and stews. Also, strips waxed floors and removes driveway grease stains. Enjoy! WARNING: use this product one drop at a time. Keep away from eyes, pets and children. Not for people with heart/respiratory problems.

What we say...
The grandaddy of super hot sauces, often imitated, rarely bettered. Heed the warnings on the label and use sparingly for an instant hit of nature's napalm.

Country of origin: Costa Rica

Ingredients: tomato sauce, onions, hot pepper extract, hot peppers, vinegar, spices, soy oil, garlic, salt

142g bottle

Price: £4.99

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Product Reviews

Submited By: Ian G...
I was very surprised with this sauce, used sparingly it is really tasty and has a lovely smokey taste to it. 3 to 4 drops in a pizza topping makes for a nice spicy topping without blowing your b**** off. I'm pretty sure you could quickly get to painful levels though :D Certainly a good introduction to the hotter sauces for the curious.

Submited By: S J West
This actually, wasn't as hot as I expected it to be, but it was alot tastier. It leaves a real tasty after taste on your lips of garlic and onions with a smokey kinda flavour to it too. Although one thing I might add, this thing makes you sweat like Brit in a Baghdad prison. The heat only took a couple of minutes to die down, but then the drips of sweat started coming, and 5 minutes later they were still there?! This was the most interesting breakfast I've had in a very long time.

Submited By: Richard Bell
Iâ€™m a fan of hot sauces, so imagine my surprise and delight when I spied bottles of Daveâ€™s Insanity Sauce on the shelves of a local supermarket. After promptly acquiring a bottle and scuttling back to my lair, I somewhat cautiously* took a dab. T-minus 2 seconds to ignition: smallish blob planted on tongue. hmmmmâ€¦ not too bad, warming up. T-minus 1.5 secs: a hint of a taste I think, getting hotter. T-minus 1 sec: error, taste buds shutting down, heatwave approaching, what have I done?! T-minus 0.5 sec: uh-oh, here it comes. IGNITION (aka thermonuclear detonation): oh-ya, ouch, hu-hu-hu, thatâ€™s hot, getting hotter, burny-burny, water, must have water, air, nurseâ€¦! You get the idea. And that was with a â€˜smallish blobâ€™. Let me tell you, nothing can prepare you for the intensity of the inferno generated by such a seemingly insignificant quantity of â€˜sassâ€™. Contrary to popular belief, inhaling â€˜coolâ€™ air over the hot spots in your mouth is utterly useless when dealing with sauces as extreme as this. Drawing in lots of fresh, oxygenated air has precisely the same effect of blowing on the embers of a fire â€” yeah, thatâ€™s right, they get even toastier and glow red/white hot! And donâ€™t discount the heating effect caused by the apparent â€˜frictionâ€™ of the air as it rasps over your highly sensitised (read â€˜crematedâ€™) sensory nodules. Milk and time, lots of time, appear to be the only antidotes to quench the flames. While perhaps itâ€™s not a good idea to eat it on its own, Insanity Sauce is great when used to spice up sauces or other flavoursome dips lacking in heat. Just go easy with it. There are a few other uses not listed on the bottle, though: Insanity Pizza Russian Roulette â€” Prior to hitting the town for a few drinks, generously coat the prongs of a fork with Insanity Sauce and then proceed to stab certain slices of a large pizza. Repeat as required. Upon returning, sozzled and in dire need of munchies, spin the pizza, see which slice lands nearest you, wolf it down and wait for the â€˜Party In Your Mouthâ€™ to begin. Insanity Tomato Sauce â€” When round at a friends (letâ€™s call him Peetzie), wait until he leaves the room and seize the opportunity to top up his bottle of tomato sauce with a large helping of the Insanity variety (if its already full, make some room). Then wait a few daysâ€¦ I did, and one night I received a text message that went something like this: â€˜OHYA *******! INSANITY TOMATO SAUCE. MOUTH ON FIRE. TOP MARKS, MATE!â€™ Quickly calling my â€˜mateâ€™ to hear the full horror story, I had to prop myself up against a wall to avoid keeling over with laughter. No, really! My friend had come in from work and decided to make a sandwich. Bizarrely it consisted of jam, peanut butter, ham and, yup, you guessed it, a thick smearing of â€˜tomato sauceâ€™. Heâ€™d been particularly hungry and his first bite would have apparently been worthy of Jaws 1, 2 and 3. Masticating the mix around his mouth, between his teeth and into his cheeks, for about 2 seconds he suspected nothing. Then, as the BURNING began, he instantly knew what was happening and whoâ€™d done it to him. He also knew that, while heâ€™d just about been able to cope with the pain even a tiny amount can inflict, the greedy dose heâ€™d just chowed down was going to be something else. And so it was. For two hours! Stomping around his living room, face contorted in agony, mouth ablaze, lips puffed up like a randy baboonâ€™s backside, he must have looked like Mick Jagger on Ritalin. Oops. * I say â€˜cautiouslyâ€™ as I was aware of the productâ€™s reputation, not to mention the fact I had peeled off the â€˜Importâ€™ label on the bottle to reveal health warnings concerning respiratory disease, dodgy tickers and the sauceâ€™s ability to strip wax, clean driveways and dissolve gold**. ** This claim is not actually on the label, but that doesnâ€™t mean it shouldnâ€™t be.

Submited By: Jim Kolsing
Yep, the name is about right. insanely HOT. But thats what I like. Wery good to spice soups and and other dishes up to a really good burning sensation

Submited By: Russ Birks
All I did was taste a bit of the residue out of the lid on my finger to test this sauce,thought the burning would never stop!!! Immensely hot,awesome mixed into food though,keep it to a few drops though is my advice!