5.0 out of 5 stars Handle with care, may commune with the dead if too much is consumed at once

T.G.f.S. · July 23, 2011

(function() { P.when('cr-A', 'ready').execute(function(A) { if(typeof A.toggleExpanderAriaLabel === 'function') { A.toggleExpanderAriaLabel('review_text_read_more', 'Read more of this review', 'Read less of this review'); } }); })(); .review-text-read-more-expander:focus-visible { outline: 2px solid #2162a1; outline-offset: 2px; border-radius: 5px; } Yep, it's insane alright.Having tried Dave's Original Insanity and hearing all the campfire stories of the dreaded ghost pepper I decided to embark on a mystical journey and ordered a bottle of this.The bottle was unassuming enough when it arrived. Standard shape, somewhat mundane label, but it contained a substance that had a curiously bright crimson and orange color. Once opened it had a spicy smell, not unlike Tobasco although thankfully without the overwhelmingly foul essence of vinegar.Well, time for a taste. I got a good thick coat of the bright substance on my index finger and took the plunge. It had a pretty nice tangy flavor... That is it had a nice flavor for about 1500 milliseconds before Oppenheimer hit the red button and, "I am become heat, the destroyer of digestive tracts."The heat hit me like a runaway freight train hitting a house of cards. No, make that a run away freight train with several JATOs attached to the rear propelling it somewhere above the upper class neighborhood of mach 2. I doubled over and let out a raspy gasp, my face flushed to a hue not unlike the sauce itself, my eyes became a water park. My aural senses became dull like I was at the bottom of a swimming pool.I heard a knock at the door and stumbled towards it with blurred vision. It was a county sheriff at the door and he was there to serve me. My own tongue, esophagus, uvula, stomach, and intestinal tract had somehow just filed a class action lawsuit against me. I reeled backwards and fell onto the couch and tried to focus my bleary eyes on a small fuzzy object on the floor. It was my cat, standing quietly and observing my plight. Maybe it was the impaired vision, maybe it was the start of something more spiritual, but my cat's face warped into a Cheshire smile many times the girth of his face. Each tooth glowing with the luster of tarnished gold in an unholy candlelight. His eyes sank back into ashen voids, glimmering ember pin points at the center of each gaping socket. The room around him began to dance and spin and the walls eventually melted away to reveal a brimstone canyon stretching as far as could be imagined. "Soooo hoooot it's spoooooky," my cat boomed, his voice echoed with a baritone bass that would surely send James Earl Jones running for the hills. Sweating, hyperventilating, and nearly blind, my vision finally faded to black.I awoke with blinding light bombarding my face. How long was I out? Slowly gyrating figures came into focus and as my eyes adjusted more I recognized them as people standing over me. A few more moments and I was able to see one of the faces and... Grandpa?!I bolted upright nearly headbutting the entire crowd looming over me "Am I dead?!" I shouted."No, no. You just had a bit too much of the insanity sauce in one go, I'm afraid. You'll be back to the mortal world in a few moments," my grandpa stated non nonchalantly, adjusting his tie slightly."So, wait," I began, "Wha... what is this? ...Is this?""Maybe," grandpa shrugged, "Perhaps you can ask me again on your next visit in a day or two.""Next visit?!" I shouted, "I'm not touching that sauce ever again! Except maybe per drop. Diluted in very large amounts of some sort of substrate like chilli. I-"Grandpa smiled and interrupted, "You only have a few seconds left. You'll be back at least once more, I know that for sure.""For sure?" I asked genuinely confused.Grandpa tiled his head, looking at me like I had just grown a third eye, "Well yeah. You already ate the stuff, and what goes in has to come out eventually."My face cracked and was painted with the same look a deer must have in the headlights of an approaching freight train that is powered by several JATO motors. Before I could seek further council I was grasped firmly by an unknown force and suddenly yanked away. The light got sucked into darkness and the roar of passing wind deafened me. I was falling.Soon something came into focus, approaching fast. It was the ground, rushing to greet me with the eagerness of a freshman salesperson thinking they've identified an easy mark. I began screaming, as if that would help. My life didn't flash before my eyes, I didn't have any final profound thoughts, my whole head was filled with paralyzing unmitigated terror. Closer, closer, closer. The ground hurled itself towards me in excitement to say hello to my face with a big wet, red kiss. And just as I'm 1mm away from contact...I jerk upright on my couch, back in my house. Sweaty and tongue numb, cat still sitting on the floor looking as plain as can be. I breathe a heavy sigh of relief, although doing so has a noticeable heat to it due to the remnants of the sauce. I hold my head in my hands and try to regain composure, reassuring myself it was just some weird dream brought on by everyday stress combined with the sudden shock of the ghost pepper sauce. My eyes drift around coming to rest on a stack of papers on the coffee table. Legal papers? I'm... I'm suing myself?I've since been eating lots of cheese and chocolate hoping to stave off the inevitable second visit to Grandpa.This sauce is hot. Really hot. Use a drop at a time in large volumes of other stuff that needs a bit of heat.Pros: Ultra super mega hot. Nice bright, festive color - If HGTV did a makeover of Satan's house they'd probably paint the living room with this stuff for the color.Cons: Flavor is made irrelevant due to the absurd level of heat. No stopper in the bottle's neck so be careful about pouring.

5.0 out of 5 stars HOT and TASTY!

J. · June 28, 2025

This is DELICIOUSLY HOT!! I have a very spicy pallet and I love when a burn makes me sweat and it lingers. It’s a plus when the flavor tastes good too! This exceeded my expectations and I will be buying again! Also excited to try the other flavors too! It was also very well packaged. Affordable and worth the buy!

5.0 out of 5 stars Bring on the heat!

N.W.C. · March 4, 2013

I've been looking for something that was going to make me cry like a little girl and I found it.I've always lamented that it seems impossible to get an good spice out of store brand bought products. I decided to give Dave's Naga Hot Sauce a chance. When I first tried it, I timidly placed a tooth pick in the bottle and went to taste. It had nice heat and a smokey flavor. I was surprised by the flavor of the hot sauce. It's not a burn and churn hot sauce but does add flavor to your dish. My first attempt was with a combo Pho with everything, which I like super spicy. I put a good two big sized drops in there. You do have to be careful and test your limit as to what you can handle. Caveat, the sauce doesn't hit you up front. As I was devastating my Pho, the heat really started to come on. I was sweating, I felt dizzy, I trembled. This stuff is no joke. I know some people can really handle the heat, for the average guy it's pretty insane.I went with a group for Chinese hot pot and brought Dave's with me. One guy came in grabbed and looked at the bottle and dropped a big dollop on his finger....and ate it. He said meh, not that spicy. Two minutes later he was downing gallons of water, his face couldn't be any redder, coughing, looking like he was about to pass out. Yeah, smooth move. He definitely respected the Naga after that. The whole grouped loved the sauce. We had a competition to see who could eat a bowl of soup with the most drops in it. Fun stuff.On Fridays at work we have a group breakfast. Boss brought some homemade breakfast burritos and I brought Dave. Boss impressed me, he laid down a solid 15 drops on his burrito and went to town. Sweat a bit and felt dizzy, but he seemed ok. I was happy with my paltry 6 drops.So, if you like to spice up you life and get adventurous, Dave's Naga is a great buy. Bonus, is it lasts forever if you don't handle heat too well. But, really, this stuff is no joke IMHO.NIck

Tried others, came back to this

J. · April 24, 2021

(function() { P.when('cr-A', 'ready').execute(function(A) { if(typeof A.toggleExpanderAriaLabel === 'function') { A.toggleExpanderAriaLabel('review_text_read_more', 'Read more of this review', 'Read less of this review'); } }); })(); .review-text-read-more-expander:focus-visible { outline: 2px solid #2162a1; outline-offset: 2px; border-radius: 5px; } After I tried a bottle of Tabasco's Scorpion special edition I found the Habarnero one no longer provided the necessary pain on my bacon and eggs. So I upgraded to this. It's much hotter than even the Tabasco Scorpion sauce, so it took a little getting used to. Then I tried a few other sauces, including Dave's Scorpion sauce, Z: Nothing Beyond, Who Dares Burns: Second Assault and finally Dave's Ultimate Insanity, but in the end I have come back to this one. It has the heat AND the taste. Dave's Scorpion sauce is very hot but has no extract, so it lacks the lava-like sensation (great chilli flavour though). Z is very tasty and very, very hot, but also very sweet. Who Dares Burns 2 and esp Dave's Ultimate Insanity taste awful, though certainly delivers the magma. In fairness to the latter, it's intended to be added to food as an ingredient, not a condiment, so I'm not using it properly. So perhaps use that for your curries/chillis, but use the Ghost Pepper one for your bacon and eggs, etc. Fantastic heat with a nice, strong chilli flavour without being sweet. Heat level: if you like vindaloos, or even phals, this sauce is for you. Otherwise you will find its heat genuinely alarming. Actually, even if you do like those curries, this will still surprise you!

Incredibly spicy and delicious

S. · February 26, 2025

This hits the spot

I thought I'd had hot before!!

M. · April 23, 2011

Being a lover of hot chili sauces - I use Tabasco every day, and once drank a bottle to win 10 roubles - I thought I knew what chili heat could do. I had tried Dave's Insanity before, and had to have a bottle of their Ghost Pepper sauce, reputed to be very, very much hotter. Opening the bottle, I dipped my little finger in to try it. With just a tiny, tiny speck on my finger, almost invisible, I licked it. Wow!!!The heat starts off pretty easy, but then develops over the upper palate with a kind of icy capsaicin burn. The spot where I put it on my tongue quickly felt swollen, and soon the tip of my tongue went numb as it spread through my mouth. This is HOT!The most surprising thing is that from start to finish this sauce has a really delicious, well developed and rounded pepper taste. Unlike other very hot sauces that try for the heavyweight title, there is real depth and flavour here, which will certainly add more than just heat to any curry. chilli-con-carne or salsa.The sauce gradually wore off my palate until after 4 or 5 mins there was just a lovely pepper fruit flavour wafting in and out of my sinuses as I took a breath.In conclusion, this is not only one of the very hottest chili sauces, but in my experience the best flavoured as well. Of course, everything has its place, but I can really see this playing a major part in my kitchen not only as a condiment to scare guests with, but as a valued and versatile ingredient.By the way, well done to Hot-Headz, who got this excellent product to my door in 48hrs with a Bank Holiday in-between!

إذا تحب الفلفل والأكل الحاااررر هذه الشطة لك

A. · April 20, 2024

ما قد ذقت شطة بهذه الحرارة العالية وما أقدر أكلها لحالها لازم أخففها بصوصات ثانية. أخلطها مع شطة رنا عشان أوصل للحرارة اللي أبغاها. طعمها لحالها كويس بس فيه مرارة قوية، لكن إذا خلطتها مع شطة رنا الطعم يصير مرة كويس والمرارة تروح.

One of the hottest sauces you will ever try

L. · June 23, 2015

I first had this in America, if your no familiar with the Ghost Pepper then do a quick search on Youtube. This is a great way to experience the extreme hotness.If you are not familiar with the Scoville scale, its the measurement of the pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers or other spicy foods as reported in Scoville heat units (SHU).To put it in perspective a Jalapeño pepper is about 1000 SHUthis stuff, the ghost pepper is upwards of 1,000,000 SHUI hunted for this Ghost Pepper for a while, I love getting it out at BBQ's and when having guests over for dinner.Do you want to try the hot sauce? sure! no one is ever disappointed. You only need 1 drop, no joke 1 drop, often 1 drop added to a curry dish is enough. If you just put your finger on it and taste it will be really hot not the best way to try, I like to mix a few drops with salsa or BBQ sauce to give it a nice kick. I have found mixing it into other sauces makes it tolerable.Keep away from kids and pets. Careful you don't get any on your fingers and then touch your nose or eyes.Enjoy!