Mad Dog 357 Hot Sauce, 5 Ounce

I'm a fan of spicy foods and sauces, but Mad Dog is on a whole different level. The first time I tried it, I didn't even register the sensation as heat; instead, it was like someone had beaten my tongue with a hammer. The pain lasted for hours. The next day, I tried it again, but only put a drop into my bowl of beans and corn. It was still too much. I spent a month trying, unsuccessfully, to build my tolerance to it or to find a way to enjoy it. Even dipping a toothpick into the sauce and stirring it into my meal resulted in such intense heat that it was all I could taste. The pain simply never gave way to the burn I was looking for, and I was about to give up on it. Finally, I decided to mix up my own sauce. It's nothing sophisticated: some tomato-based Ortega, a generous portion of Marie Sharp's delicious Habanero sauce, a splash of Truff Hotter Black Truffle Hot Sauce, and a few drops of Mad Dog. The results were magical. Smoothness, rich flavor, and heat. So, so much heat. As far as I'm concerned, this stuff is about as edible as napalm straight out of the bottle. However, if you get creative with how you use it, it's an absolutely brilliant ingredient.

This sauce is wonderful! Bought it for a friend of mine as he is into hot stuff, the hotter the better he says. So, I went to his home a few days ago and his wife made some soup, and I asked if he tried it yet. He said, nope too scared, so I said, break it out and we both added 1 drop to the soup. I was pleasantly surprised by how 1 drop ramped up the hotness to just the right level! As one would expect the more bites I took the hotter it got, but it did not get to the painful level. Was also surprised at the nice flavor as well. So, I would give this sauce a 10 stars if there were 10 to give! Who knows maybe one of these days I will add to 2 drops to a bowl and see what happens. :-) Please READ THE LABEL if you are new to really hot sauces, as this one is HOT. No joke! I usually use El Yucateco Chile Habanero hot sauce the green one you see here in soup, on burgers, to make bean dip etc.. and put maybe a dozen drops in a bowl of soup. Really nice flavor. It is rated 8500 on Scoville and this stuff is rated 357,000 That is 42 times as hot. So please be careful! Enjoy!

it is hot about 1/2 teaspoon on a chip and I thought this is the hottest sauce I ever had and its taste is okay. I thought I can take this, its not to bad. I was very wrong about three minutes later there was a burning in my stomach I started to sweat like I was getting over a fever I also needed a toilet. I grabbed a bottled water an ran to the bathroom and sat on the toilet. I emptied my bowls and sat there sweating so much drinking all my water and hunched over on the toilet with my stomach burning. Telling myself it would end. about 15 minutes later and I was soaking wet. I was able to get off the toilet and get to the fridge there I ate tuna salad and it helped a lot. its about 30 minutes later now and im doing okay. I will never under estimate sauce again. I will never have this again. I am so happy I was home when I ate it. I would not give out at a party there will not be enough toilets and people will feel they are dying. Much like a bad drug experience. Once you take it and start feeling it you realize its to late you cant change your mind you must live with what you have done. I would tell a friend not to do it. their is nothing good about it. I gave it 5 stars on everything but tastes because it is what it says it is very hot there is a warning and legal statement on the bottle and I didn't listen.

As a fan of Hot Ones I thought I'd try this classic from earlier seasons at the hotter end of the spectrum. I really wanted to know what the guests were experiencing. I got my bottle last night and just dabbed it with my fingertip at first- instant tears and nose running. The heat hits you fast, then mellows, slightly, and then rebounds like hellfire. I felt it in all of my mucous membranes. I had happened to make crab cakes for dinner and I wondered how it might play off a cool and creamy tartar sauce, so I mixed a couple drops with some butter and used it as a spread before the tartar sauce. It was delicious and added a nice kick. It definitely builds. Today I thought I'd experiment and mix a couple drops into some mayo for a turkey sandwich. One drop would have sufficed. I had to scrape some off and add more mayo. I'm still on fire. My ears are on fire. I finished nibbling carefully on this sandwich well over a half hour ago. I think if one were very careful with adding drops, it could make an amazing and unique spicy mayo with lots of uses. One note I haven't seen mentioned in the reviews yet- you can taste the cane extract, and it makes it sweeter than you'd expect. When I first tasted it, I thought it was cinnamon or cloves. So depending on how you want the predominant flavors to taste, this might not be for you. Despite the extreme heat, this sweetness comes through pretty strong. I prefer a more sour, vinegary, or limey flavor so just keep that in mind, YMMV.

I've had a lot of hot sauces, but this one really is something else. Usually I go for the sauces with Carolina Reapers, as they are said to be the hottest peppers on Earth. I have a bottle of Blair's Ultra Death (made from these peppers), which is supposedly over 1 million Scoville units. Having gotten comfortable with that sauce, I expected Mad Dog 357 (at 357,000 Scoville units) to be a piece of cake. Boy was I wrong. This sauce is different. Other sauces have spice, but this one has a kick. That is, a drop of this hits you immediately as though you've just been kicked in the face. After that initial wave (which often induces coughing), you'll feel the lingering heat ramp up. My lips often get pins and needles from this sauce, which very rarely happens to me in quite the same way from other sauces. All of this happens from just a single small drop. If you want a sauce so hot that it will leave you in pain, this is it. Beyond the extreme heat though, this sauce also tastes great. It has a deep, slightly fruity (from the Habaneros), peppery taste. The combination of the unique heat and great flavor earns it 5 stars for me, though I'd be careful about giving it as a gift to someone, since it's just that hot.

Mad Dog sauce is extremely spicy and full of flavor. Perfect for those who love intense heat without sacrificing quality. Ideal for adding an explosive kick to any dish.

Here is how my day has gone. The door brace in my refrigerator popped out this morning, causing a barely used bottle of this stuff to explode on my floor. I left it because i didn't have time to clean up this morning. i cleaned it up when i got home, using a dustpan and broom followed by paper towels. I washed my hands, still finding bits of pepper goo all over my kitchen floor. Then I went to the restroom. Today I discovered that genitals are about 100x more sensitive to capsaicin than the tongue. it's like this stuff travels through the air into your pants. So, feeling like I had been prodded with a freshly used fire poker, I also realized that a long day at work causes a certain amount of glistening, if you know what I mean. Moisture mixes with pepper and spreads. I began to do a sporadic dance, and jumped into the shower. It felt ok until the warm water hit, which felt slightly warmer than the steam produced by nuclear fission. I immediately turned the water to cold and my dance speed increased, adding a few new twists and turns in the process as I waited for the blessed cool that came much too slowly. After my lips started turning blue, or about five minutes, i stepped out and dried off and sat in front of my computer, the heat having spread to a dull coal bed a little further south. It has been 20 minutes. Now it is a dull heat, but at least it is subsiding. If I didn't feel like such an imbecile, I might find this level to be mildly erotic. That being said, I hope to never do this again. I need a nap.

So far this is my first novelty hot sauce, no doubt it’s hot so be prepared to drop sweat and tears. Initially I was worried the sauce will taste like vinegar, seeing as it’s the first ingredient listed. I don’t enjoy Tabasco for this same reason as the vinegar overpowers any other flavor of the sauce. But after tasting it, it didn’t have much vinegar flavor at all; exactly what I was looking for. I would describe the flavor as tasting predominately like spice seasonings. Think of the spices used in curry, flavorful and abundant. With a smidge of that refreshing pepper flavor (like what you’ll find in bell peppers, jalapeños, habanero peppers). The after taste does have the hint of vinegar, which doesn’t linger long before the heat kicks in. Which is true to the ingredients listed: spices and habanero peppers. Smelling the sauce alone it does smell sweet, like everyone had described it to be; but I don’t find that same sweetness in the flavor, again mostly tasting spice seasonings. Although the flavor may not go with everything, due to the heat a little will go a long way. 5 stars for delivering the heat I’m looking for without the overpowering flavor of vinegar