Dave's Insanity Gourmet Salsa, 12 oz | Holy crow! This sh*t is HOT!! (which is a good thing)

gourmet food: Dave's Insanity Gourmet Salsa, 12 oz

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Very popular. Dave uses a specially grown California habanero pepper to add the heat to this salsa. He claims it has a super salsa flavor despite the heat. Warning: Use this salsa one taste bud at a time....

Holy crow! This sh*t is HOT!! (which is a good thing)

I bought a bottle of Dave's Insanity twelve years ago at a hot sauce store in Boulder, CO, back when Dave's was the hottest sauce made. One or two drops in a pot of soup made the whole thing damn near unbearable (yet my roommate managed to use half the bottle in around 2 months).

So when I saw the salsa, I thought I knew what I was getting into. I assumed that the salsa would be pretty ungodly hot but somehwat milder than the sauce, given that this contains OTHER ingredients like tomatoes and onions. Boy, was I wrong. This stuff is as hot as the Insanity sauce, even though it is "diluted" with salsa ingredients. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. The heat won't kill you, and it won't even cause any real damage. (It'll just feel that way.)

Don't expect to empty the jar at the same rate at which you scarf down that chipotle corn salsa or the green olive tomatillo tapanade, though. I eat a little bit of this everyday with tortilla chips and sour cream, sprinkle a tiny amount on a plateful of nachos, and spread an 1/8 teaspoonful on quesadillas, and have for the last three months. I think the salsa level has decreased by a few tablespoons in that time, and to me that seems like progress.

Good stuff, but only for committed chileheads (or, more accurately, for those chileheads who should be committed).

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