Review of Dave's Gourmet Ghost Pepper Naga Jolokia Hot Sauce. Insanity Plus Jolokia! 5oz. Glass Jar

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.Then it was the Dorset Naga which was rated from 876,00 to 970,000 units.Now it is the Naga Jolokia (also known as the Naga Morris, Nai Miris, Bih Jolokia and Bhut Jolokia) with a whopping 1,001,304Scoville 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.

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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