Dave's Ghost Pepper Naga Jolokia Hot Sauce 5oz

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Product Description

"So Hot It's Spooky". Slightly hotter than "the new hottest sauce in the universe" (Ultimate Insanity). This sauce is distinctive for the sweet fruity flavor that sits over the top of the sauce's heat.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 15.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B001PQTYN2
• UPC: 753469000882
• Item model number: DAGPHS
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (88 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #683 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)
  • #2 in Grocery & Gourmet Food > Sauces & Dips > Sauces > Hot Sauces

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605 of 612 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars sauce not for mortals, December 14, 2009

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Benjamin Chodroff (Cleveland, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dave's Ghost Pepper Naga Jolokia Hot Sauce 5oz (Misc.)

I purchased a burrito from a small shop a few blocks from home. I was unimpressed with their habanero "hot" salsa. Eager to kick it up a notch, I reached for a bottle of what I later found to be Dave's Gourmet Ghost Pepper Jolokia Hot Sauce. I unscrewed the top and went to put a dab on. I quickly realized that there was no flow regulation but not before a large pool of the magma colored liquid dripped into my lunch. I decided to dab my finger in it and see what I was dealing with. It was formidable, sweet and flavorful with a long heat. I thought I could take the heat.

I demolished the burrito, hot sauce and all, and shrugged off the pain. Every bite was saturated with the taste of a thousand tortured souls but the guacamole still tasted great. I wiped my tingling lips and while downing a glass of water I looked at the bottle. It claimed a heat rating of "Insanity++." I headed home thinking surely the worst must be over. I've ate plenty of hot food and my stomach is battle tested. I was wrong.

I walked no more than a block before I started to feel odd. It was in the forties in Cleveland but I could feel the sweat forming on my brow. I walked another block and I could literally feel the burning sensation outlining my stomach. My breaths were noticeably faster and shorter. People on the street looked at me weird. I figured it would go away by the time I got home but I decided to pick up the pace. By the time my apartment was in sight I was experiencing tunnel vision and it felt like a live agitated weasel had been placed inside me. I knew what I had to do. After flushing my lunch, a tablespoon of this sauce, half a gallon of milk, and my ego down the drain, I can honestly say I am just happy to be alive. This sauce is not for mortals.

52 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A glimpse into the abyss, December 25, 2010

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W. Andrews - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dave's Ghost Pepper Naga Jolokia Hot Sauce 5oz (Misc.)

A few hours ago, I put a dime sized dab of this sauce on a corn chip and scarfed it down. Initially, it was hot but certainly no hotter than other sauces I've had. I quickly followed up with another dime sized dab on a chip. Shortly thereafter, it began to feel as if my tongue was being electrocuted. My eyes began to sting and my lips went numb. The ecstasy brought about by eating spicy food poured up out of my mouth and into my head. I laid down and the dog started to act very worried. While prostrate, I focused on the pain and stared into the darkness of my own eyelids. Every little thing becomes significant when the mind is seeking relief from pain. I do not know what will happen when this stuff makes its way through my digestive tract. I'll be eating more soon.

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Hottest of the Hot (for now), February 16, 2009

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Timothy B. Riley (San Antonio, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dave's Ghost Pepper Naga Jolokia Hot Sauce 5oz (Misc.)

It seems like there is a new "Hottest Pepper in the World" every couple of years or so. Not too long ago it was the Red Savinaź Habanero with a Scoville heat rating of 577,000 units. Now it is the Naga Jolokia (also known as the Naga Morris, Nai Miris, Bih Jolokia and Bhut Jolokia, etc.) with a whopping 1,001,304 Scoville Heat Units according to the New Mexico State University Chile Pepper Institute. In February 2007, Guinness World Records certified the Bhut Jolokia (aka Naga Jolokia) as the hottest pepper in the world. It is reportedly called the "Ghost Pepper" because after one bite of the pepper you "give up the ghost".

Now Dave's Gourmet has made a sauce from this serious pepper. This is nothing to fool around with, it will cause pain, a lot of pain. So why would anybody want a sauce that hot (other than for bravado)? I for one like the taste. It is a little smokier that Habanero. I also use it in sauces where I want heat but not the red color of chili peppers, such as a cream based sauce. Since it only takes a drop to give me the heat that I want it will hardly change the color of a white sauce.

My only reservations about it is that it contains hot pepper extract (which is what they call the stuff that they spray in the eyes of criminals). I've seen hot pepper extract for sale as a commercial additive. It's low on flavor but big on heat. Was this added to give the sauce extra pain inducing heat while using fewer actual Jolokia peppers? I don't know but it makes you think. Dave also has a special edition sauce that uses the Bhut Jolokia pepper and cost about four times more than this one does. I like this sauce, but use with caution.