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Seven hot sauces, many tastes

Explore the world’s hottest peppers and the intriguing flavors of hot sauces like Dave’s Ultimate Insanity Sauce.

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First, I recommend this article in The Smithsonian, The Gut-Wrenching Science Behind the World’s Hottest Peppers. Recently due to my foolishness I took a teaspoon of Dave's Ultimate Insanity Sauce. The problem is that

though my tongue has developed a very high tolerance to capsaicin, my stomach has not

. Tasting a teaspoon of Dave's Ultimate was actually tolerable in regards to the sensation in my mouth, but my stomach did not agree. With that out of the way, for the past few months I've been sampling seven purportedly very hot sauces with a group of friends on various dishes. The seven are:

CaJohn's Trinidad Scorpion Hot Sauce

Dave's Original Insanity Hot Sauce

Dave's Ghost Pepper Naga Jolokia Hot Sauce

Dave's Ultimate Insanity Hot Sauce

Mad Dog 357 Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce

Melinda's Naga Jolokia

Pure Habanero

I will give each hot sauce up to 10 points, broken down by ...

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