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Thumbs up from me. Currently eating it on my eggy muffins. It is indeed runnier than you expect. Myoptika! Review it!

I have enjoyed Reggae Reggaer Sauce. I used it to marinade some pork, and it came out a treat. The addiitonal sauce also made a fine... ummm... sauce for the food. Yum and indeed yum.

It's got quite a pleasant kick to it, but not enough to burn your gob out. I doubt the missus would enjoy it, but I'm definitely thinking of doing some sort of veggie casserole with it.

Is this by the guy who was on Dragon's Den?

Yeah, Levi Roots.

I've got to quote that post from his website, it was gold:

With a name like that he deserves to be King.

Told you you'd like it!

Now imagine dipping a Reggae Raggae Sauce Egg Bap into a Cuppa-Soup.

His real name was Kevin, I think. They asked him on the show, then told him he should have lied.

*eyes go wide with wonder*

I thought it was "ok". It was nice, but not a keeper. It had too much a vinegary taste to it; it tasted like tarted up brown sauce, basically.

The question everyone wants answered, however, is "is it as good as Peri Peri sauce?"

Where is it on the scale of Worcester to Tabasco?

I'm asking because I'm not too keen to buy spin-off stuff from a TV show that I haven't even seen. But I do like hot sauce.

Let's ask Colin:

It's not a hot sauce. As others have said, it's like a sticky, tart, mildly spicy, bbq/brown sauce ketchup type thing. It's nice but it's nothing special and wouldn't be selling like this without Dragon's Den.

I have some Dave's Insanity Sauce in my fridge. Now that's a sauce. I started the chilli sauce arms race with that; friends of mine have since bought (and in some cases, eaten whole bottles of) Blair's 3AM and Jersey Death Sauce. It culminated in my mate Nick buying Mad Dog 357 collector's edition (resultant discussion) but I haven't seen him since he bought it so I dunno how hot it is. It's possible it killed him.

No, as Peri Peri is great.

It's a nice tasty sauce, who said it was a hot sauce?

You're on! Anyone want to donate me a decent camcorder, or does doing it from my K800i enhance the comedy factor?

You're not fucking wrong. I once stirred about two teaspoons of that into some pasta sauce and it was so hot it made my lips blister.

Oh, fair enough. Well, I do like brown sauce and I detest BBQ sauce so I probably won't be trying it.



MR OH DEAR FACE.

Hmm. I just googled for Dave's Insanity Sauce and found a website which also sells "Blair's Death Rain Habanero Crisps" which sounds a little bit tempting.

Keith :)

Yeah, well, I brush my teeth with THIS*.







* Might be a lie.

It costs £1.50 or something! Just suck it up and try it

Levi and his cheerful song compelled us to buy a bottle, however instead of using it sparingly as a side sauce, we decided to completely marinate our chicken with it. The result was akin to chunky rocket fuel. Call me a lightweight all you like but phew, too hot for me.

I bought some special version of Dave's Insanity Sauce in San Antonio. I was made to sign a waiver before they let me buy it. Unfortunately the bottle broke open on its way across the Atlantic.

Even more unfortunately I didn't clean my hands well enough after cleaning it up before I shoved my hand into my pants to readjust my tackle.

Ouch.

Oof.

Lessons one should not have to learn part the first - Do not prepare chillies for cooking in the nude.

I fortunately, did not have to leant this. I just know someone who did.

Lessons one should not have to learn part the second - Do not snort extra hot chilli powder.

I unfortunately did learn this, shortly before seeing in 2002 by spending 2 hours with my head in a sink to try stop the pain.

Dave, yowm a mentil.

I didn't mean to snort it. It ws just an unfortunate side effect from having been spiking my friends wine with it.

What, they spiked your cocaine with it?

I once rubbed my eye whilst doing some tidying up in the kitchen. Part of my tidying involved removing all the rotten fresh food from the fridge, that had (again) gone ignored whilst I ate a Mars bar or something. Part of that involved moving the sauce jars around to throw some stuff out. Part of that involved touching my bottle of Dave's Insanity Sauce. Part of that had some sticky sauce leftover on the outside, which stuck to the hand which rubbed the eye.

It felt like I died.

I've eaten it straight from the jar five or six times now, albeit not much (just a little spot on the end of my finger). It's not that pleasant but I know I can cope and doing that is an excellent way to make drunk careless people try it too.

I've had one guest seriously consider going home at about 9pm because of this, and one other guy nearly threw up. My fiance's sister's boyfriend, who was born and raised in the Caribeean and hence knows a thing or two about spicy sauces, insisted that it wasn't going to be too hot for him. He tried some and said, "not too bad". Five minutes later he was drinking milk trying to wash the capsicum from his mouth just like everyone else.

Heh. No.

I didn't wash it off my hands afterwards. And then adopted my usual sitting at a table posture with my hand supporting my face with my middle finger under my nose. And breathed in heavily.
And then PAIN!

You had a PS3 in 2002?

Everytime I make chili con carne I inevitablly get a "spicy nose"*. It's really annoying. There's not much you can do to make it go away. Thankfully it's just the natural oils from jalapenos and not the pure distilled hate that some of these things appear to be.





*I pick my nose lots, see? It's load of fun.

A friend chopped up chillies, then went for a leak.

NHS direct told him to sit with his winkie in a glass of milk.

No, that would be CRIPPLING PAIN.

I didn't even have a PS1/2

All these supersauces are made the same way. Take a chilli pepper, preferably a hot one, and extract the seeds. Skin the seeds and extract the mushy pulp inside them. Distill that and monitor the chemical concentration of capsaicin, the chemical which actually gives chilli their heat.

The measurement scale for this is the Scoville, which is derived somehow from the parts-per-million rating. The pure crystalline capsicin that someone up the thread linked to is 16,000,000 Scoville units, the highest anything can possibly be. Raw Scotch Bonnet peppers are 100k-300k or so. Some of the nutso sauces are easily above the half-million mark and some are even hotter. To put that in perspective, Standard pepper spray is between 2 and 5 million Scoville units, so some of these sauces are literally quite close to being an offensive weapon.

Hello!
Yes, I understand it works that way, but I just ment that the juices from cutting up a weak old jalapeno is nothing compared to these "pure" capsicin beggers that are available to be bought. Has anynoe died from drinking a bottle yet?

I did read a comment somewhere from a guy who'd taken part in a "chilli eating contest" and someone had maliciously emptied a jar of that 16,000,000 stuff into it. He ended up in hospital with burns to his mouth and throat and that. Can't find the link now though.

Ouch. Poor man! I can't imagine how much morphine they would have tp pump into someone in order for their entire body to stop feeling like it's burning. and literally burning, as well!

Yes, it's still worth trying. My other half hates both brown sauce and bbq sauce, but likes Reggae Reggae Sauce.

I don't believe that. Capsacin is just a neurotransmitter, and so wouldn't cause burns. Might feel like it.

I believe it's the number of times you have to cut it with oil before it's unnoticeable - so a 150K rating means that 150k parts oil to one part chili product has just become unnoticeable.

I don't know, but at the annual May Day weekend get-together last year I took my Blair's XXX After Death, which at the time I was just about accustomed to as a "raw" (very very sparing) topping sauce, and someone who claims to be a chilli nut liberally dripped it - against my firm advice - on a slice of pizza and proceeded to spend an hour drinking milk, beer, wine, water and running around nearly in tears.

Thing is, it tastes nice too, although Who Dares Burns is far more agreeable on an average day.

Who Dares Burns 2nd Assault is just violent, very unpleasant heat though, no flavour at all. Oddly, the XXX is rated as the strongest one of the three pack they came in.

No -- it used to be this but that depends on the subjective judgements of taste testers as to what exactly constitutes "unnoticeable". There's a scientific method now, gory details are on the wikipedia page.

Well that's dull.

They had tastings of Reggae reggae sauce at my local supermarket once. To me it tasted quite like Jack Daniels sauce, but not as nice. It was distinctly 'meh', and the most average of average.

I found the Jack Daniels sauce so vinegary it made me retch.

Don't go to a PhD wielder with science questions expecting comedy, laddie. Expect boredom, in serious quantity.

After cooking it? Really? Maybe your bottle was 'off' - I didn't think it was vinegary at all.

I can handle it man! 250,000 nerdville units, undiluted!