Dave's Gourmet Insanity Sauce 148 ml

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Dingo’s Widow Maker comes in at an impressive 682,000 SHUs on the Scoville scale, making it one of the hottest all-natural hot sauces in our collection. I made the mistake of pouring about a tablespoon onto one bite of my burrito when trying this out for the first time. I think the reason I bought it was the sinister packaging, coming in a bottle that looks like an evil witch’s poison vial. You know you’re dealing with fiercely spicy food when the company name alludes to a firearm (357 magnum).

Since it’s just a drop or two you’d use, it doesn’t alter the taste of your food, it just brings the heat.The Hot Sauce Scoville Scale lists numerous hot sauces sorted by their pungency and their amount of capsaicin in Scoville Heat Units (SHU). Mad Dog has some of the hottest sauces on the market, but they also claim to have some flavor-first hot sauces with mild heat as well. There is a point when you can go too far, though, like when the local law enforcement asks for a bowl of your chili for crowd control. Get our 80+ page field guide ebook covering 20+ popular chilies free, enjoy 15% off our fiery spices from our Spicery, and subscribe to our weekly Wicked Wednesday enewsletter featuring deliciously bold recipes. The peppery flavor of fresh chilies is there, but the star of this sauce is the pure heat it delivers, That likely comes primarily from the pepper extract which adds a ton of heat without any additional flavor nuance.

In addition to changing the degree of spiciness, hot sauce is also used to alter the actual taste of a dish. The Scoville Scale is a measurement of a food's spiciness by gauging how much capsaicin it contains along with its sugar-to-water content ratio. In his self-introduction, Hirschkop professes to be the first person to start the "superhot" hot sauce trend, and there might be some truth to the claim: his Insanity sauce's slogan is literally, "Original Hottest Sauce in the Universe.It’s more tasty than many super-hot sauces that lean into the pepper extract at the sake of all other flavor. Dave’s Insanity Sauce once held the title of “world’s hottest sauce”, but there are tons of insanely hot sauces out there these days, many of which claim to be much hotter. In this article, we’ll rank some of the most popular hot sauces on the Scoville scale from mild to insanely hot.