I’m a big fan of spicy foods and sauces.I recently discovered Daves Insanity sauces of San Fran. Man,that stuff is awesome.It not only has a great “heat” to it,it has great flavor too.I’ve expermented and perfected (IMHO) the best buffalo wing sauce using Daves as my “secret ingredient”.I add it to my sauce at the ratio of 1 tsp per cup.It’s about as hot as I can stand it!
The company also sells a variety of spices and snacks.I highly recommend the “joltin jellies”.They are jelly beans flavored with Habenero peppers.Whoo hoo…wow…MY TONGUE!
Anyone else dig this stuff?
I am personally privy to the greatest Dave’s Insanity Sauce story ever.
After being introduced to Dave’s at a mall spicy foods store, my friend and I bought a bottle, both to cook with and to amaze people with its intense heat.
For Christmas break Scott went home to spend holidays with the family. His high school age sister had several boys courting her. They would come over in the snow-filled evening and try to be cool and macho, vying for her attention. So Scott decides to prey upon their machismo.
He casually asks them if any of them like spicy food. Says that he has a really hot sauce, if anyone wants to try it. One of them rises up to the challenge and says, “Sure.”
Scott goes into the kitchen, and returns with the sauce, and a bag of chips for them to deliver the sauce with. He puts a small dab of Dave’s on one chip. The kid, trying to be ultra-cool, scoffs and puts a dollop a little bigger than a dime on a chip.
The kid puts the chip in his mouth, and chews. Swallows. Widely opens his eyes. He then proceeds to run outside, put his hands over his ears, and roll his head around in the snow screaming, “MY EARS!!! MY EARS!!! OH GOD, MY EARS!!!”
Dave’s Insanity Sauce is to be respected.
This is a site I order from a fair bit. Check out the sauces, there are some awesome ones!! Also, the jelly beans are to die for… literally 
Mmmm , jellybeans, I might be persuaded to try some chile flavoured ones, if the right people did the talking…
Keith
I sampled some Dave’s on a piece of popcorn in the French Market. If they were trying to sell beverages, it sure as hell worked. I hurt for quite a while, and I’m no stranger to things picante.
In a more diluted fashion, though, I’m sure it would be wonderful.
Dr. J
Go to Dixie’s Barbecue in Bellevue, Washington. Find Mr. Porter and tell him you want to meet The Man.
Yes! I have a bottle on my shelf. It’s been there a while because, as you know, one or two drops is quite sufficient for a pot of food. I put it in my cheese dip.
And, yes, I learned the hard way.
It also works nicely to keep dogs from chewing on anything. Very nicely.
I’ve seen Dave’s Insanity, never actually tried it.
I’ve had Hellbenero sauce on a taco. Great stuff, a little dab’ll do ya.
My current favorite hot sauce is Gecko Gary’s. The guy at the Garlic and Chili Depot put a little on a tortilla chip for me to try. I promptly shelled out the $5.99 for a five ounce bottle. Gecko Gary’s isn’t hot enough to cause permanent damage, and it adds a nice flavor to your food, as well as heat.
Dave’s Insanity is great, but believe it or not, i can eat very large ammounts of it without much pain at all. There is some stuff called “Da Bomb”, see if you can find it. I tried a toothpick dipped in that stuff, and i nearly screamed. There’s also some stuff that you can buy that comes in a childproof (!!!) bottle, like a large medicine bottle. It’s like 10 times hotter than Insanity sauce, and from what the guy at the store told me, it’s illegal to sell it to anyone under age 18. Ouch.
To add to the list:
Scorned Woman Hot Sauce. Oak Hill Farms. Not as adrenal as Dave’s, though I find it has a better flavor; kind of smokier.
In my youth (father Spritle replied to his son 
) I tried to be Senor Macho with the hot sauces. I felt that the hotter the better. Sure I’ve tried all the “hot” stuff, Dave’s, Ass Kickin’ Habanero, Pure Cap (I got it for the skull and crossbones on the bottle), but as I have matured (wussed out?) I find that I go for a true combination of heat and flavor. It doesn’t help that the Associate Spritle doesn’t cotton to spicy food.
A new thing I’ve gotten totally into is Chipotle sauces. Admittedly, they are not as hot as other sauces; they aren’t touted as such. Chipotle is the result of smoking Jalapeno peppers, er… putting jalapeno peppers in a smoker. They have a nice “warmth” to them and one incredible flavor.
Burning for you,
Spritle
Dani, I’m familiar with both of those sauces! A different friend and I went to lunch at Chicago’s Heaven on Seven, a cajunish restaurant. They have an enormous wall of hot sauce, and all the tables are covered with about 20 different bottles of sauce. My friend is a hot sauce freak, and is trying them all out.
The waiter comes by and mentions that he saw him trying out all the sauces, and asks if he would like to try some of the hotter stuff that they have in the back, to keep them safe from the amateurs.
He brings out Da Bomb, and the one in the childproof medicine bottle. My friend Cort said they were both incredibly hot, but different kinds of hot.
Da Bomb was very much like an explosion of heat. All hot, all the time, all over the place in his mouth. The other one (had a weird name - with a number in it), got hotter and hotter in his mouth for probably 8 minutes. At that point, he couldn’t taste anything, hot or cold. He loved every minute of it.
I actually wanted to try Dave’s Insanity Sauce at one time. I don’t think it’s in my plans anymore. Here’s why…
Personally, I think Dave’s is weak.
I tried it a long time ago. My friend John offered me some and asked me to put just a tiny drop on my finger. I listened. Tried it. Nothing.
So I took a bigger drop of it. Still nothing.
The thing was, it was hot, but the flavor was terrible. I’ve had milder sauces that tasted a thousand times better, and I’ve had what I assume to be much hotter sauces that taste better too.
Oh well. My only explanation to my friends, (who were astounded that Dave’s had no effect on me), was that I used to eat a lot of Indian food. Whatever that pepper that comes in the black bag with the drawstring is. That shit is damn hot.
Still, I’m not a fan of Dave’s. Even if they do say it’s like the 7th hottest sauce in the world. Anyone have a link to that hot sauce page that said Dave’s was 7th?
I’ve been there once and had one of my most memorable meals there before a Cubs game. It was the daily special…the one where they make you sign a release promising you won’t send it back to the kitchen because it’s too hot.
Man oh man. The pain was exquisite. It was pasta tossed with a bunch of chopped habaneros. If I could of, I would have licked the plate.
I have a few Dave’s stories too, but none that tops rolling in the snow with burning ears!
A quick explanation of the burning ears thing, in case anybody believes me to be full of it:
Apparently, some people are extremely susceptible (man did I not spell that correctly) to spicy foods. In many cases, their sinuses flare up. With extreme spice, their sinuses flare WAY up. This is apparantly what happened to the kid in question. The sinuses in the ear area created an intense amount of pressure, making his ears hurt.
Sure am glad it wasn’t me.
One of the times the Lunch Bunch went out we went to a burrito stand and they proudly serve Dave’s Insanity Sauce. I believe Hemp 'N Hot is one of the types and that is quite good.
HUGS!
Sqrl
The stuff in the childproof container is “Pure Cap”, which is almost entirely capsaicin (sp?) with some oil added. A lot of places won’t sell it to you until you sign a waiver.
Personally, I can’t even touch Dave’s- eating just a little of it causes my arm to go numb. I’ll stick with Tapatio or Melinda’s, thankyouverymuch.
Mr C.
A warning there…the pet might decide that it likes the taste. Had a friend who once fed his cat a kittytreat after using Death Rain (A dry spice)…the cat ran around in circles mewling…and then decided it wanted more.
That store is in my hometown, Ottawa. I love it!
You all must try a sauce called “Da Bomb”. It is absolutely asinine to have a bottle of this stuff, but I have a reason:
I used to work weekends, and would get a double pizza on Saturday, have one then, and have one left over for Sunday.
I used to always come back on Sunday and find several pieces missing from the second one, so I got me an idea.
I brought “Da Bomb” in to work, and got almost every employee I could to try the stuff, and built up a reputation of being the “crazy” person in the building. People would ask me why I have sauce so mindlessly hot. I told them that I intesd to stop pizza theft with it, and once word got out, I never had a single slice taken again.