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Dave's Insanity Sauce

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I kid you not, this is the ultimate bottle of hot sauce. The smallest of drops will light your food on fire. If you love spicy foods, this is the sauce for you. Since so little of the sauce is required to dynamically alter the dish you are preparing, this is a tremendous deal. I must warn you: TOO MUCH INSANITY SAUCE WILL BURN YOU. My older brother once applied this to a sandwich like it was Tobasco sauce and found himself literally crying (in front of his girlfriend). Start with small amounts and ramp up your tolerance - this is like fire in a bottle.

the first time i tried dave's insanity sauce, it was at the urging of some coworkers.
i had watched them for a few days shaking two or three drops onto their meals, and figured i could follow suit...

when i realized my mouth was on fire, it was too late. it's like eating battery acid. talk about heat? this sauce packs it. after a few weeks of building up a tolerance to a few drops, you start to realize that it really adds the heat to your meals without ruining the flavor of the food, like some hot sauces do. you can still enjoy what you're eating, but it'll definitely leave you sweating.

a word of advice.. wash your hands after handling the bottle. i had picked up the bottle one time and some had dried to the side of it. later, i stubbornly itched my eye. that was a mistake. felt worse than getting maced.

LOLOL... sweating... ouch ouch ouch...whooooooooooo. Seriously, dude!
I decided to look up the Insanity Sauce after having knowingly put 5 drops in a bowl of cabbage soup;that's how I found these reviews. Why did I think that it was not going to be as hot this time!?!

I have never tasted anything this hot and yet I cannot stop eating it! As everyone recommends, dilute, dilute, dilute or prepare for pain. I love heat and have had hot sauces and chili sauces all over... this is way hotter than anything else.

Recommendations:

- Don't do any of those "dare" type things where you drink this for money or to impress your friends. You could need medical attention.
- Keep away from kids.
- You may want hide it when relatives come to cook or they may think that it is one of those hot sauces that is all hype and dump a bunch in the chili.

"Dave's Insanity Sauce" is not to be taken casually or even as a way to add heat to individual servings (for most people), this is meant for larger dishes such as a whole pot of chili or a big batch of salsa since one or two drops will make a large amount of food VERY hot. That being said, this does have a really good flavor that adds a nice pepper tangy hit that complements most Mexican or South-Western dishes, but I wouldn't use it in Indian or Chinese style dishes. There are hotter sauces available, but this one is a good balance of flavor and heat.

There are several amusing and somewhat painful to watch videos of people abusing this sauce on various web sites and a quick search will provide you with a lot of hits.

Highly Recommended!

CFH

When they say this is the hottest hot sauce in the universe, I believe it. I taste-tested this hot sauce when I was in the French Quarter. There was a selection of hot sauces you could sample. You were given popcorn to sample the hot sauce with. I took a piece of popcorn and dipped it, ever so lightly, into the Dave's Insanity Sauce. Then I popped the piece of popcorn in my mouth and...OH...MY...GOD...it felt like a choo-choo train drove out of each of my ears simultaneously. I thought I was going to drop to the floor. Once I recovered (slightly), I searched desperately for something to drink. I bought some Powerade and it helped, as long as I held the Powerade in my mouth; once I swallowed the burning pain started again in my mouth. It took drinking a glass of milk and a margarita or 2 in order for me to feel remotely "sane" again. If this is the experience you are looking for you've come to the right place. PROCEED WITH CAUTION, indeed.

I have to admit this stuff is way too hot for me and I regularly eat all of the tabasco flavors. A friend made a pot of chili years ago and only added according to him, a "few" drops of this stuff to the whole pot. Literally to say it far and away was the hottest thing I have ever eaten not to mention the hell it wreaked on my digestive system, Every bite it got hotter and hotter. I thought it had a not so great flavor, but then again it got hot so quick it was hard to enjoy any "flavor". Worse than biting into a habenero. Like fire that feels like hotter than possible to imagine and it is very persistent and a long lasting burn. Pretty senseless to make a sauce so hot you need to use this much caution to use it.

I think it is more of a novelty item, something along the lines of college guys daring each other to try it is what comes to mind. If you really enjoy abusing yourself with hot pepper extract or you simply can handle ANYTHING and say NOTHING is hot enough for me, then this might be for you. If you can honeslty say you like the burn off this my hat is off to you because you are one tough person. I actually like to be able to put a little sauce on my food and add flavor AND heat not just insanely stupid balls of neverending raging fire. I will pass on this and stick to the varieties of tabasco I love.

Years ago, when I had what seemed like an eternal cold, I read that if one takes hot sauce, it helps clear out the bronchial tubes. I got a bottle of Dave's Insanity Sauce from a health food store (?!), brought it home and took about half a teaspoon of it with some salad. About 15 minutes later, I was writhing in agony on the bathroom floor and semi-conscious. My husband called an ambulance, and the last thing I remembered was a medic saying, "I can't get a pulse."
My husband took the jar of sauce along to the hospital -- the ER doctor said to me later, "My brother eats this stuff, but they make him sign for it when he buys it." I thought he was kidding, but he assured me he wasn't kidding.
There were no permanent after-effects. My husband said it was the first time he'd ever seen me take anything without reading the label first -- turns out the label said to put only a few drops on the food -- and I took half a teaspoon. Live and learn. (Oh, yes, BTW, it did cure the cold.)
Years later, an M.D. friend told me that once, in a foreign country, he was eating some food with hot sauce on it and he passed out, falling face forward onto his plate.
Hot sauce can be dangerous stuff. Use with extremely high care.