“HOT DAMN!” was not the words that came out of my mouth. What came out, after trying a toothpick drop amount of this sauce, was something much more inappropriate, which I cannot write in this review. I then ran for the milk and needed to lie down for a few minutes. The habanero and chipotle burn of Da Bomb Beyond Insanity Hot Sauce goes straight to the back of your throat and lingers for about 30 minutes. This is not a hot sauce to efff around with, this is one to use extreme caution with. Now you may be thinking, does it even have flavor or is it just Satan hell hot? Well, let’s break down Da Bomb.
Da Bomb Beyond Insanity Hot Sauce
Collectible packaging meets big heat that tends to linger.
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Flavor
The ingredients in Da’ Bomb are: habanero peppers, chipotle puree (typically made from chipotle morita), water, orange juice concentrate, natural pepper flavoring, tomato paste, potassium sorbate, and sodium benzoate.
If you like a smoky chipotle taste that is hotter than hell, then this is the evil buddy you’ve been looking for. You can smell the smoky chipotle peppers right when opening the bottle. You can taste the smokiness (and a little sweetness from the habaneros and orange juice) right away and as this builds the tomato paste is more pronounced, giving Da Bomb some acidic properties to its flavor profile. But it all disappears quickly as intense heat takes over the experience.
This will overtake anything you eat if you don’t treat it with respect. This is a sauce made for drops, not for drizzles (and definitely not for pours if you’re a sane human being).
Heat Balance
I just needed to make it clear that even if you blast through a habanero pepper easily, this sauce will get you. Seriously. Da Bomb claims 135,600 Scoville units, but it feels like that and more. It stems from that generic-sounding “natural pepper flavoring” in the ingredient list, which is a nicer way of saying “chili pepper extract.”
Pepper extract is capsaicin pulled out of the chili and concentrated down into something many times stronger than the fruit it came from. Pepper in origin, but stripped of nearly everything that makes a pepper taste like a pepper.
Whole chilies and extract burn differently. Heat from an actual pepper arrives attached to the rest of the fruit, so it builds alongside the sweetness and the acidity and the aroma, and it moves at the speed of whatever you’re eating. Extract doesn’t do that. It hits fast, spreads flat across the whole mouth and holds, closer to a sensation than to a taste. Da Bomb runs both at once, which is why there’s real smoke and sweetness in here from the habanero and the chipotle, and why the burn sitting on top of it can feel like it wandered in from a different bottle.
This is a back of the throat heat and it lasts and lasts (and lasts.) Read: this is not a sauce to give unknowingly to your friends (unless you never want to see them again.)The balance of heat, smokiness, and sweet is ok, but not great: the heat hits quick and lingers. It’s met with that smoky sweetness soon after the hammer hits, but it gets steamrolled quickly by the spiciness.
To really appreciate Da Bomb, it may be best to mix it with another more neutral ingredient that can take on its flavor. I mixed a toothpick amount into some sour cream and plopped it right on top of my burrito and it was pretty good. It really brought out the smoky flavors of the chipotle.
Usability
Da Bomb Beyond Insanity, with that smoky chipotle, is a hot sauce that you can pair with any meats where you want a real kick in the $#@! It again works when mixed in a wing sauce (making some seriously hot wings) and an decent addition to any steak sauce. But again, you won’t want to use a lot. This is a lingering heat that can overtake a meal if too much is used.
The tricky part for usability is the spout. It’s the size of two pencil erasers which I think is way too big for a sauce of its nature. This spout should make it much harder for this crazy beast to be let out of its cage.
Collectibility
Da Bomb walks the talk on its packaging. The bottle is a thicker glass and shaped like a little bomb. The bomb on the label with burning fire behind it really paints a nice picture of what you’re about to walk into when you taste this hot sauce. Its font and labeling have an old school vibe to it which adds to its charm.
It’s definitely a fun collectible sauce — it looks wicked, mean, and fun all in one. This is the kind of bottle you keep even after Da Bomb Hot Sauce is all gone to remind yourself of the pain it took to get to the bottom.
The Bottom Line
There’s a good sauce buried in Da Bomb Beyond Insanity, and buried is the word. The smoky chipotle and that bit of habanero sweetness are real, and you get about two seconds with them before the extract flattens everything and settles in for the long haul. Treat it as a seasoning you measure in drops, cut it into sour cream or a wing sauce where something else can carry the flavor, and there’s a place for it. Treat it like a normal hot sauce and it will ruin whatever you put it on, and possibly your evening. What you’re really buying is the bottle, the burn and the bragging rights, and it delivers all three.
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