Bottle Da Bomb Beyond Insanity Hot Sauce, Bottle

Holy seventh circle in hell. This sauce... absolutely deserves its reputation on the show Hot Ones as the sauce that breaks anybody down, regardless of spice tolerance or affinity. I bought it purely just to experience it because it's hilarious how people on Hot Ones react to it — and I didn't underestimate it because I knew that if I did, I'd be in for a hellish experience, and mind you, I love spicy food, but this truly is -stupid- hot. Like comparable-to-Satan's-butthole-hot. If you like spicy food and are scoffing at this review and others thinking, "Oh pfft, it can't be THAT bad," oh it IS. This WILL humble you. I'm smirking just thinking about someone who goes into tasting this and underestimating it.If you're for some reason on here looking for a hot sauce that has flavor, this isn't it. This is literally like spraying pepper spray directly onto your tongue, and then squirming in pain exactly like the interview subjects in Hot Ones. The people on there are not exaggerating; I tasted a tiny DROP, literally a RAINDROP size drop less than the diameter of a DIME, on a tortilla chip, and even that small drop was tear-inducing, made my nose run, and pure P A I N sat on my tongue and the roof of my mouth for 15 minutes. It has an extremely faint Chipotle flavor, but not the delicious smokiness you typically get from Chipotle sauces. It's almost flavorless. It's like licking burned, unseasoned, charred meat, but just spicy and painful. I'm not exaggerating. Don't buy this for something tasty.***If you're doing this just as a Hot Ones challenge, here's what you need to know: it does indeed have a half-life, as Sean Evans has said on the show. It will hurt pretty bad for like 15, 20 minutes tops and make it hard to speak or even think in that time period, after which it slowly starts to ramp down. If you're going to have something to drink, I didn't do milk, but I did try water, and the water honestly didn't help that much. Scientifically, it's not supposed to work to quell the sensation of pain because all it does is spread the capsaicin (pepper extract) farther into your mouth and esophagus. If water is all you have though, make it ICE COLD. Cold beverages are better than lukewarm, because it'll actually make it feel less hot in your mouth. I don't know if it would help others, but I had a Dunkin Donuts iced coffee next to me when I did the challenge, and it surprisingly worked way better to ease the pain than the water??? It might be because of the high amount of cream, sugar, and ice in it, but hey, if it worked for me, it might work for someone else! Just sip on it constantly in the recovery period, and it'll genuinely feel like the pain is going away. As for whether or not this will make your stomach hurt and run to the bathroom, that didn't happen to me and I was totally fine after about 30 minutes, but again, all I took is a tiny drop, so if you're going to coat a chicken wing with this stuff, yeah, you'll probably wanna make sure you're near a bathroom. I can't imagine it's good for your internal organs to have more than a drop of this at a time. It even says on the bottle: "Consume one drop at a time with extreme caution!" You better heed that warning wholeheartedly. They ain't jokin' around.Sean Evans, I tip my hat to you, sir, for being obligated to do this hundreds of times. I'm unsure how you still have tastebuds after eating whole wings covered in this blasphemous substance, but I applaud you for doing it and taking it like a champ. Hot Ones fan forever!

Toss your raw chicken wings with this sauce in a mixing bowl with a little California olive oil to bind them air fry, oven bake or grill and you will have the hottest wings at the party. Most should be warned to stay away unless you’re addicted to supper hot food I I usually bring a small sauce size crockpot with 6 or 8 to a party of 20 and another with regular wings for the hot wing wimps.

Obviously if you're reading this, you are most likely considering purchasing Da Bomb so you can experience the "joy" of the Hot Ones experience. On the show, this sauce always brings people to their knees and elicits lots of complaints. If I recall correctly, Alton Brown threw the bottle into a waste bin (or he "binned it" for you UK folks).When Sean asks people "how are you with spicy food?" most of the interviewees are fairly modest (usually a sign of someone who can handle heat), but as many have pointed out, it belies just how viscous Da Bomb actually is.Part of this problem is that the Scoville scale isn't exact. Per Wikipedia "Decreasing concentrations of the extracted capsaicinoids are given to a panel of five trained tasters, until a majority (at least three) can no longer detect the heat in a dilution."So all of these numbers are relative. I've had three versions of the Last Dab, Blair's 357, and countless others over the years from the "upper end" of the sauces on Hot Ones. Da Bomb is easily, handily, much hotter.Part of this might be due to the fact that the capsaicin in Da Bomb doesn't come from peppers, directly. It is instead from pepper extract. E.g. instead of simply chopping up some chilis and throwing them into the sauce, the real heat comes from the extract.Flavor wise, Da Bomb is initially almost pleasant. Mild, but smokey. If that flavor was stronger, and it wasn't face meltingly hot, Da Bomb might be a daily driver for some meals. However, the flavor is rather mild and the heat obliterates it anyway. This is not a sauce that is both "hot" and "tasty." This is a sauce that will humble you.When I first tried Da Bomb, I was a wee bit cocky. I'd had plenty of sauces ostensibly hotter (higher Scoville ratings), eat "Thai hot" curry at Thai owned restaurants where the employees try to talk you out of it, and so on and so forth. This is really the product of ratcheting up my tolerance over decades, always chasing that dragon of perfect heat and perfect flavor. Less to say "I am so tough" or any other such nonsense, and more to say "I thought I knew what I was doing."I put a pea sized dot on some pizza crust and let it linger for a few minutes. Sure, I felt the heat, and it was certainly spicier than the Last Dab iterations in my cupboard (or what remain... the Last Dab is enjoyable on its own merits so I actually use it often).This led to an error in judgement.I proceeded to slather a slice of pizza in the stuff.Oh... my...I've never been maced (thought it might happen at a peaceful protest, thankfully not), but I can only imagine what this level of heat feels like in your eyes or nose.Again, it takes a beat for the heat to really come to you. I managed to finish the small slice of a hand tossed pizza (e.g. not a huge slice) before Da Bomb "dropped." The first dab was bad, but tolerable. This was... a mistake.I stuck my tongue in Greek Yogurt, I tried Almond Milk, nothing seemed to cause the heat to abate. Instead, I spent a good 20 minutes pacing back and forth, doing push ups, and jumping in place, much to my dinner companion's amusement.This is a "stuntin sauce," not a flavor sauce. Do not buy Da Bomb or any of its incarnations thinking that you're going to enjoy it in a traditional manner. There are hotter sauces out there, even hotter incarnations of Da Bomb, but Da Bomb is so widely known and "spice lords" can be so cavalier. Buy Da Bomb. Impress your friends. Feel the pain. It is certainly an experience.