Dave's Gourmet facts for kids
Dave's Gourmet is a company famous for making very spicy sauces. They created Dave's Insanity Sauce, which was once known as the "world's hottest sauce"! You can find their sauces in special hot sauce shops and online stores.
History of Dave's Gourmet
Dave's Insanity Sauce first came out around 1993. It was one of the first sauces made using something called capsaicin extract. This extract is what makes chili peppers spicy. Using it made Dave's sauce much hotter than other sauces at the time, which were usually made from very hot habanero peppers.
This sauce was measured at 180,000 Scoville units. The Scoville scale is a way to measure how spicy something is. To give you an idea, a common hot sauce like Tabasco sauce is only about 2,500 Scoville units!
The founder of the company, Dave Hirschkop, even wore a straitjacket when he promoted his products. This was a fun way to show how "insane" his sauce was!
Types of Dave's Gourmet Sauces
Dave's Gourmet makes many different kinds of sauces. Here are some of the sauces they offer:
- Cool Cayenne Sauce
- Ginger Peach Hot Sauce
- Hurtin' Jalapeño Sauce
- Hurtin' Habanero Sauce
- Jammin' Jerk Sauce
- Roasted Garlic Hot Sauce
- Roasted Red Pepper & Chipotle Hot Sauce
- Scotch Bonnet Hot Sauce
- Dave’s Steak Sauce
- Temporary Insanity Sauce
- Insanity Sauce
- Total Insanity Sauce
- Ultimate Insanity Sauce
- Ghost Pepper Naga Jolokia Hot Sauce
- Scorpion Sauce
- Carolina Reaper Sauce
- Pink Sauce
