Apr
29
2010
Dave’s Ghost Pepper Naga Jolokia Hot Sauce
Posted by Blogmaster in Hot Sauces (Gourmet), tags: Dave's, Ghost, Jolokia, Naga, Pepper, Sauce.
- NEW Gourmet Hot Sauce
- Insanity Level Heat
- Jolokia Ghost Pepper
- Face Melting Heat
- Remarkable Flavor
Product Description
A new superhot hot sauce has joined the ranks of our Insanity Sauces.
Made with the same Bhut Jolokia/Ghost Peppers (the hottest peppers in the world!) as the 2008 Special Reserve, this is one flavorful but supremely hot sauce.
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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.
Rating: 5 / 5
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 Savina® 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.
Rating: 4 / 5
The Ghost Pepper version of “Dave’s” has a great lingering heat from which rises an excellent flavor that enhances rather than hides the taste of your food. Did I mention that it is a LINGERING heat? This is a great sauce with a familiar, distinctive “Dave’s” taste that leans a little more toward sweet (and away from bitter) than original “Dave’s”. Personally I prefer this slight shift toward sweet with most foods on which I’ve tried the sauce. This will not keep me from continuing to use the original on hotdogs, perogies, and chili, etc…
Rating: 5 / 5
as a connoisseur of all things hot I ordered it hopping to set my mouth a blaze, now don’t get me wrong it is hot but I would not place it anywhere near as hot as the original Dave’s Insanity Sauce… It has a nice flavor; a little sweeter than I care for.
Rating: 2 / 5
THIS PRODUCT PUT THE RIGHT SPICE I NEEDED TO MAKE MY FAMOUSE HOT SOUSE PERFECT THANKS
Rating: 5 / 5