Dave's Gourmet

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Dave's Gourmet is a company notable for creating and introducing Dave's Insanity Sauce, which formerly held the title of "world's hottest sauce." The sauce is widely distributed through gourmet hot sauce boutiques and online hot-sauce sites.

The original Dave's Insanity Sauce premiered around 1993 and was one of the first sauces to be made directly from capsaicin extract, allowing it to be hotter than the hottest habanero-pepper sauces of the day. It has been rated at 180,000 Scoville units,^[1] compared with 2,500 for Tabasco sauce. Part of the intrigue behind the sauce name (Insanity) was founder Dave Hirschkop’s wearing of a straitjacket at events promoting his products.^[2]

The following varieties of Dave's Gourmet sauces are currently available:

• Official website
• "The Scoville Heat Scale". www.chilliworld.com.
• Clarkson, Jeremy (October 4, 2009). "Help, quick – I've unscrewed the top on a ticking bomb". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on July 12, 2010.