We Try Five “Romantic” Hot Sauces, Then Escalate To Reaper Gummies And Spicy Chocolate

Forget roses—our studio smells like capsaicin and chocolate, and we’re not mad about it. We crack open a Valentine-themed hot sauce gift set that promises to “heat things up,” then discover how far packaging can carry a party when the real test is in the pour. From a jalapeño “Heartache” that tastes suspiciously like pickles to a “Hot and Heavy” habanero that actually delivers a decent glow, we stack each bottle against its flirty label and ask the only question that matters: does the flavor earn the heat?

Once the XXX “extra hot” turns out to be more hype than burn, we shift gears and start playing chef. Chocolate meets hot sauce, and suddenly the sugar and fat smooth the salty edges and bring out what little nuance the bottles are hiding. Then we up the ante with Carolina Reaper gummy bears that humble every sauce in the box. Slow build, sharp sting, long tail—the kind of heat that makes you laugh, sweat, and immediately reach for a second opinion. We cool down with peppered cured meat, then finish strong with extra hot chocolate popcorn from a craft maker—actual cocoa depth, reaper and cayenne warmth, and the kind of sweet-heat balance that feels like a real dessert, not a dare.

Across the chaos, a clear takeaway forms: novelty gets the laughs, but quality snacks and well-made spicy treats create the memories. If you’re curating your own date-night heat flight, anchor it with one solid habanero, keep a true superhot in micro-doses, and close with a sweet-spicy finisher like chocolate popcorn. Add chocolate, bread, or charcuterie as safety nets, and you’ll have a tasting that’s bold, playful, and surprisingly romantic. If this ride made you grin or wince, share the episode with a spice lover, tap follow, and drop a review with your go-to heat for date night.

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:20

All right, welcome to the Valentine episode of Spice Fees. Petey Spice Love.

Tools, Packaging Mayhem, And Setup

SPEAKER_02 0:33

And we have again our best guest ever. And of course, El Diablo. The devil himself. Today we we have a uh little box set that uh my love went and got at the market. And uh I think it's time to spice it up. Oh my goodness. Spice it up. Oh baby. Well, the first sauce is gelapano heartache. Oh, break a maha. Well, I'm gonna go with the second one. Hot and heavy. I don't know which the top one is XXX. Extra hot sauce. So that's that's the special one, right? Oh yeah. Uh oh. This is getting kind of hot in here. I think I think we might have to take off all our clothes. Fourth sauce in this package is the get it on ghost pepper. Jesus. It's like when Cardi B got. Here, I'm gonna let you read this last one because the question is is get get it on what? I don't think you want to get that on your bits or her bits. Kiss me, Carolina Reaper. Woo! All right, and there's a little there's a little thing in the back. It says, and I'm I mean, ooh, that's hot. I'm I'm really not expecting these to be super hot because obviously it's supermarket grade. Yeah, you know? So they're hot's not the we'll find out. You never know. And on the back, I mean it's obviously got all the nutritional values and stuff, but it says, skip the flowers and chocolates this year. This gift set of five fiery hot sauces is the perfect way to heat things up this Valentine's Day. For Valentines who love a little adventure and a lot of heat, this will set their taste buds. Oh my. And maybe their hearts. Maybe their fire. Hearts and farts, I believe, right? Yes. All right, let's get to it. Let's spice it up. I had that nice little peepop. P-pop. How's your peepop? Obviously, they child proof this. So somebody forgot the skull spoon, so Barry Bites has gladly given us what are these for? Um foe spoons? They're they're they're soup spoons. Yep, soup spoons that are used to put hot sauce in my mouth. Alright. I think I've seen you use these on Barry Bites before. I have.

SPEAKER_01 3:14

I have.

SPEAKER_02 3:15

I'm really excited to be spending Valentine's with you guys. Hold on, let me check and see if I'm excited. I I hear a song.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

I'm so excited.

SPEAKER_02 3:31

All right. Someone did lose control. Another fail. Dude, there is a lot of packaging on this. Yeah, like I mean, hold on. I got it. Oh, yeah. Jesus. Oh, and this is this is gonna pour really well. Got on your stopper. On your sleeve.

SPEAKER_01 3:47

Oh yeah. Don't wipe your nose.

Tasting Jalapeño “Heartache”

Habanero “Hot And Heavy” Impresses

SPEAKER_02 3:50

Alright. So we're gonna start off with gelapano heartache. And uh here, gelapino heart, brah. Oh, am I going first? Yeah, you can pour first. Okay, we're gonna go first. I don't want to sit here with shaky hands waiting for you guys to pour. This is very watery, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, maybe it needed a needed a shake. It smells pretty good though. It's good, so we're trying to avoid having an accident. Smells like chalapino. Jalapeno-ish. All right. Cheers. You ready? Happy Val. There's a lot of salt in that. Very salty. Yeah. That is bizarre taste. Exactly. I don't even know what the hell that was. It's almost pickley. Yeah. That's what kind of threw me off. It was just a bizarre. It's not not terrible. I didn't really like it that much. It's not terrible. Yeah, no, no. Definitely the salt kind of. Wasn't expecting it. Took me for a ride. Take me for a ride down. You're up. Not super hot though. Just pickly. You know what I'm going to do? Just see if translation.

SPEAKER_01 5:12

Oh, this is gonna be watery too. The hot and heavy habanero. So hot. Let me get that hot and heavy. Let me get that heavy hearty. What?

SPEAKER_02 5:27

I'm just gonna okay, yeah. We're just gonna pour there. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 5:32

Alright. Hot and heavy.

XXX Cayenne Disappoints On Flavor

Ghost Pepper Taste Test

SPEAKER_02 5:44

Yep. That's got that habanero heat. Still a lot of salt, but that's way better than the jowl. Oh, and it's got a yeah, it's got a good hang time. I can read what's in this one if you'd like. Um abbey mash. Yeah. Well, peppers and salt and cayenne pepper mash. Salt, straight up salt. Got salt and salt accessories. Alright. Here we go. So far. I feel like these are like like you ever get you ever got allergy shots as a kid? When they have the little containers, they book them like I was like, I never took an allergy shot or leading. I don't think that's called an arrow allergy shot. What are you talking about? Extra, extra, extra hot. Whatever the hell that's gonna be. I did. Those are Barry Bytes exclusive snort testicle. I think these are gonna actually be hotter than we thought. Yeah. No, definitely hot. I like I like how that the habanero ones like just hanging on and kicking. This was the extra, the triple X hot. Oh yeah. We're gonna go easier on this one. Yeah, it's for the best because Lord of flavors. Does it say what um pepper or mash this was? We'll read it off first. Uh this has uh red cayenne. That's it. The heck it's a cayenne mash. I can't get over the salt. Yeah, it's very salty. I'm getting like a I feel like this chemical taste on all of them. The habanero didn't have it as much, but that jalapeno was kind of disturbing. Yeah. This one has a front-forward weirdness. I think we're gonna do drink all the water, not for the heat for the salt. I'm starting to burn. No. Yeah. I would say. Yeah, it's if it's about this name, yeah. That should have been with that name, it should have been the final one, you know. Yeah. But whatever. Oh, I don't know. I mean they should have mixed the Reaper and the Ghost together to make the triple X hot. Oh, yeah, true. I mean, I feel like smarter. These are kind of in the wrong order because the the XX should have been the last one. And get it on is in the right place, which is next. Get it on is always in the right place. Kiss me, Caroline Reaper. I would hope it would have been like the first one or second one. But the they put they put kiss me last. Hey. To each their own. Alright, so I'm gonna put this one. You got the cap for that guy. Oh, yes. Yes. I'll do that while you do that. Okay. I got you. Oh my god. Teamwork makes the dream work. Alright. Triple X. Alright. Do a little gut it on here. I mean, they are totally clicked. Not in here, though. Hopefully. Here, go ahead and click. Valentine's Day. Oh my gosh. Get it on ghost pepper. Oh, for fuck's sake. Sorry, I didn't mean to swear. I hope this is super salty because it smells kind of hot. It definitely smells like ghost pepper.

SPEAKER_03 9:09

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 9:10

Mm-hmm.

unknown 9:15

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_02 9:16

Ready? Oh, you guys. Sorry. I saw I saw berry bites.

SPEAKER_01 9:21

Um just how is that one less hot than hold on? It's gotta come. Sometimes you gotta move it on your different parts of your tongue. Oh, I did.

SPEAKER_02 9:36

I mean it's not starting to kick now. I mean it's not registering. Yeah, I mean, it definitely is spice. I mean.

SPEAKER_01 9:42

Yeah, it's not like I'm just waiting for it because sometimes this is the um California. Nope, not California. This is ghost.

SPEAKER_02 9:51

Sometimes a ghost will come in the way back and just get you, but my mouth is watering, but it's not it's not assaulting me. Yeah. It's probably probably watering because uh because you gleep. Out of love.

Carolina Reaper Finale And Verdicts

SPEAKER_01 10:13

Um out of love, out of love, out of love. This is Carolina Reaper. Kiss me, baby.

SPEAKER_02 10:23

Jesus Christ. Carolina Reaper, I mean, this should be the hottest of them all, I'd imagine, right? You you would think, but we just don't know. Oh yeah. I do not like these sauces at all. No, there's something weird about them. Like right away, I just get this weird friggin' taste. That one is delicious. Again, salty. I feel like I I'm I'm a little like bumped. I thought they would just maybe be decent, but I don't like any of them, honestly.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

Yeah, I mean, I'm I have to do I do have to say that the weird jalapeno one that tasted like pickles kind of did it for me.

SPEAKER_02 11:13

It tastes like pickles. Yeah, I think it just threw me off so much that I couldn't enjoy it or something. That's like the abundance, just I just feel like I just ate like a you know teaspoon of salt. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:32

I feel like I just basically forgot to buy my girlfriend any Valentine's Day gifts after eating that. That's how the taste of this is.

Chocolate Pairings With Hot Sauce

SPEAKER_02 11:40

Yeah. It's like you failed at Valentine's Day. I taste disappointment. Do you want to put some of the sauce on chocolate? I mean, I don't see why not. Is it worth it? It's not gonna get worse. Puppies. Or maybe we puppies! Oh, and I actually got this because it reminded me of you guys. Between two brothers. Oh, brothers. I mean puppies. But definitely not as cute as you guys, which is why I wanted to have this Valentine's episode with you. Um so okay. But how about this? Let's let's not go through each one. I feel like what was what was your guy's favorite? I'm gonna go with get it on ghost pepper just because of the name. I like the habanero because it actually tasted alright. But I didn't like any of them. All right, so you get the heavy habanero. You get on heavy. I just like that it I just think I like habanero flavor. And I keep I keep saying get it on what? I'm going weird. I'm doing pickle. I mean jalapeno. All right. Pickle chocolates. Oh, I don't even know which one's which. I'm I don't think anybody else.

SPEAKER_01 12:50

I want the striper nuts.

SPEAKER_02 12:51

This is a trick question, but again, are you allergic to nuts? No, I want all the nuts like kind of like here. Sometimes here. No, I'm just oh Jesus. Again, it always comes down to nuts. Hot sauce is like a box of children. Oh, you already are you doing it? Oh, you're making a hole? Hell yeah. Nice. I don't know. I don't know if you can get a smell cream or I think I won because I got the pink cream. Ooh, baby. I made a little divot so I can just pour the sauce in there. I think I picked the wrong one. I'm gonna I'm gonna do something like yours. Oh there you are. All right.

unknown 13:35

All right.

SPEAKER_02 13:38

All right. I copied you and I made a little pool. Twas the only way. Here's Happy Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day.

SPEAKER_01 13:46

Don't get it on your bits.

Reaper Gummy Bears Bring Real Heat

SPEAKER_02 13:54

Don't knock it till you try it. Not the weirdest thing I've done. Um, yeah. Wasn't bad, wasn't great. I think the chocolate enhanced it because it kind of cancelled out that weird flavor. Yeah. Like canceled out the salt. Alright, got two more options. That was fun. I think we should do that again. I enjoyed that. Yeah, we always kind of let's get chicken wings or get brecchi or whatever else. Pour chops and applesauce. Poor hot sauce and just weird things. But chocolate and hot sauce is not a good thing. That's a that's a it's a good time. Uh strange. Now shit. I have some cured meat here. And I also have gummy bears with Carolina Reaper. Oh my. So would you rather keep eating or or do you want to just go straight to the gummy bears and then maybe eat after? I would I would say let's hit those gummies. All right. And before we just in case these happen, I don't know. I don't do you think those are gonna kill you. I love the company, and um I don't know. Sometimes you think it's gonna kill you and it doesn't. It's just more of a flavor thing. So so I got these cured meats, and before they've been in my fridge for about three months. Uh last time I was expired. It's expired. It's expired. Um but Barry will know because he's a meat connoisseur. Um, but I was last time I was at his house, we filmed an episode of Barry Bites, and I was actually going to meet Jerry, who in my phone I put him as Abe From in the sausage king, because he um I was meeting up with him to he made sausages and was giving me the sausages, and he also gave me this. And Barry, you also gave me sausages that day, too. Oh, I gave you sausages. Anyway, so because I trust you, and this has been in the fridge, and it's not not not that we don't trust Jerry, I just don't trust myself. So I want to smell fresh to you. No, I don't think you're gonna want to eat this. It smells good. Okay, so if we're in a panic and we need to put hey, it I think I think I'm ready to rock on that. That smells delicious. Okay, cool. All right, I lack meat. I have no idea what this is gonna look like. It's gonna be one big cum. Oh, it's a lot of cumuls. Oh god, is it like a mash- oh no, they're here. They're they're little guys. They're in there. Okay. I thought we were gonna have to bite each end to get lady in the trampet. So good. I'm down. All right. If you want to grab one or two, I can't even. Do we go all in and just do two?

unknown 16:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:31

I can't even see. Oh, it's a little mini guy. Oh, yeah, grab two.

SPEAKER_01 16:35

I'm gonna go for two.

SPEAKER_02 16:36

Little gummy guys. I didn't get my second one. Oh my gosh. I got two. Yeah, right off the bat. Dude, I'm gonna fight. I got my two. Dude, I used to get pins when I was a kid, and I'd fucking stab the gummy bears before I'd eat them. I'd make sure that one's still alive. Let's get all of your hands. Alright, ready? Gonna bite the head off. Here we go. Oh, they're grish. I was gonna taste the pepper and they're starting to. I was just gonna be like, these aren't hot at all. Why did you say take two? Yeah, these are hot. You guys want a third one? No. I'm still on my first. Oh, I put them both in. I was just saying. I just wanted to make sure I got the flavor. Which it's um tastes like gummy with spice. We can't barely taste the gummy. It's hot. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 17:32

Woo!

Cooling Down With Cured Meat

SPEAKER_02 17:34

Third. Yeah, I'm definitely sweating. Yeah. That's gonna look funny on the way out. Yeah, it's gonna be Johnny Hexburg. Hot it's pretty good. Thank you. Those are heat. You know, we got this. I remember we got this in um at the store in Beverly. Is it Beverly or Salem? The the hot sauce store. I don't know. I think it's Beverly. Wow. All right. Yeah, I think we should try some of that meat. Here's your favorite moment. I'm gonna be able to taste it because wow. Yeah, my tongue I'm still burning. I need that chocolate to calm my mouth down. Yeah, that's hot. Wow. And Jerry. You know what kind it is, Tom? It's like Capacola. Yeah. Or just it's really good. Even though my mouth's on fire. Yeah. Oh no, burn them. Is the meat supposed to be spicy? What is it? Is the meat supposed to be spicy? It's got a little pepper on the edges. Yeah. But it's either pepper or mold. These little gummy bitters are hotter than all those sauces, all the Valentine's sauces together. Not I mean, it's in a cool packaging. It was fun. Yeah. And who knows? I mean, maybe if we were you know putting on burgers or or something, it might be. And not being anal about it. Yeah, that freaking thing is still burning. Yeah, that.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

Gummy bears. Thank goodness for this meat, unless it's spicy. I don't know. More chocolate.

SPEAKER_02 19:14

Come on, Jacob. Let's see. You know? I really hope it's pepper and not mold. Oh god, black. No, that's pepper. If it's mold, see you on the other side. I don't know. Probably. I have to make this stick. I'm not a doctor, I just play one on TV. Nah, it's pepper.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

Um, I'm gonna sneak in here because I think I need a chocolate.

Extra Hot Chocolate Popcorn

SPEAKER_02 19:46

Yeah. I'm burning like crazy. Oh my god. Yeah. Still burn that little freaking two gummy bears. Wow. I can't believe that was that hot. I'm glad I brought it. I was just kind of thinking, I was like, I don't know. Like, you know, a lot of the supermarket stuff is you know, it's for consume more consumer stuff than people that want to. I can't wait to fit shit gelatinous uh peppers. Um black liquid liquid uh peanuts. Yeah, I was though. I think I'm saying right. I think we did we did it. Oh you wanna do that now or give us a little bit of time to cool off? I'm I'm down. Should we should we you wanna before we quit? Kind of yeah, let's just let's fuck ourselves up. Okay. All right, we got we got one more special item. Oh my.

SPEAKER_01 20:53

Now that we're burning, we might as well keep burning.

SPEAKER_02 21:01

We got gourmet popcorn, extra hot chocolate. Um, this is from Revolutionary Hot Sauce. Uh, I've had some of their hot sauces are pretty good. You guys have had some of the hot sauces from them too, right?

SPEAKER_01 21:17

Yeah, they got some really cool creative ones.

SPEAKER_02 21:19

Oh man. Well, that shows five uh in a minute. And we got that in um uh Rhode Island. This is the Rhode Island Fest I went to with you guys. That was fun. That was our first no, I've gone to a couple fests with you guys. I'm sorry, my mouth is just trying to check out. My nose is running now. Yeah, I can't believe those gummies, the little tiny gummies with that. Alright, fuck it. I have I have a bag of these at home too, but they're did you get the extra hot or the red hot? I got the beer nuts. Yeah, that's five flames, so we're definitely doomed here. All right. So here we go. This is gonna be kind of it smells like chocolate. Go. I don't know if we're gonna do more than one, but we'll see. Oh yeah, let's do a handful. Oh give me more. Oh, that's because you're crazy. Yeah, maybe we should maybe should do them and try one and then go for the rest. Let's go, ready? I'm already eating them.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

Very bites!

SPEAKER_02 22:32

It's not hitting me yet, but it's a marker flavor. No, it actually tastes good, but I think I'm miles also. Um the flavor is so good. Yeah, that was this has reaper in it. Extra hot blend. And cayenne. My mouth is burning so bad that I literally don't know what's going on right now, but I can taste that sweet flavor on the popcorn.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

Really good. Hmm. That's really good popcorn. Fantastic. I'm trying to see here.

Reordering The “Romance” Heat Scale

SPEAKER_02 23:01

Oh yeah, no, I got it. I got a re-ignited. Yeah, I definitely ignited more. We definitely should uh try these again though on a clean palette. Yeah. But these are these are perfect to end off the Valentine's episode. Oh yeah. It is chocolate. We sweet theme candy. Sweetie, man. Yeah, maybe when we do cool down, we'll do another um we'll do we'll do another quick one for this. You know what's really I'm looking at these before before we're going. Yeah, they had these in the wrong order.

SPEAKER_01 23:39

Because it should be at the end.

SPEAKER_02 23:44

Well, first you kiss me, right? That's usually what happens, right? Unkissed first. Oh, you mean that name? Oh.

SPEAKER_01 23:53

And then um I don't go I don't go for the kissing first.

Wrap-Up From Barry Byte Studios

SPEAKER_02 23:55

And then um it gets hot and heavy. Jesus. Right? And then um, and then you get it on. You get it on the ghost pepper. And and then extra hot triple X like stuff's definitely happening with these sauces. Yeah. And this one that was first makes no sense because at the end of a you know a lot of things, you end up with heartache. And so because like unless you have you're supposed to have heartache first, maybe that was like you heartache and then you get the sauce. Then you build up to the heat. I feel like you you build up to the heat and then you go through heartache. Heartaches and guilt. Or shame. I gotta go. Why are you leaving? My heart. My heartaches. Shut up. Anyway, thanks for joining us. Yeah. Um thanks for having me again. Yeah. We're in we're we're actually at Barry Bite Studios today. Barry Byte Studios. Oh I love the acoustics. You shouldn't make that your doorbell. I want to do the ace ventura sliding the door. So it just goes and stops and goes and stops. I don't know about you, but I'm still sweating. I feel like I need a shower. I'm all spiced up. Sorry. Anyway, thanks for watching. Signing off. Bye. Spice fiends! Spice everybody. Oh, I touched the mic. Spice fucking hot. That was a good idea. That was a question good.

SPEAKER_03 25:44

Yeah. That was good.