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so obviously we've had a lot of spicy things released as of late i know last year there
were spicy nuggets there were spicy dipping sauces this year there has been spicy pizzas
there was some sort of spicy thing i think that i reviewed recently that escapes my mind
this is going to be it to a whole new level are you ready
you've heard about something that's red hot right you've heard about the red hot chili peppers
you've heard about something that's flaming hot that's to symbolize the flames right there
you've heard about something that's burning hot
have you ever heard of something that's white hot
well you just did because taco bell's newest release is white hot now when i think of something
that's white hot okay usually i i think of like one of two things i think of things that are so
incredibly hot temperature wise that it would be like an industrial setting where you have
a superheated metal that's heated to the point where it's white and like if you were to touch
it i mean you would just disintegrate it would you would you would be over that would be it
or i think of something like the surface of the sun obviously when i hear white hot i i
feel any way that something would be hot beyond essentially human comprehension
beyond something that you would necessarily be able to survive but taco bell
they're pushing the envelope and they're saying you know what we're just gonna do it
they're releasing the steak white hot ranch fries and you can get these as fries or as a burrito
i got this as a burrito so that's we're going to be trying out today now interestingly enough
this video might be like the closest thing to time travel you've seen on this channel right now it's
the morning of april 10th and for some reason my taco bell has this early i don't know why i don't
want to know why but anyway we're getting this done i think it's going to be released to everyone
else a little later in the week so i might just kind of hold off on this for a couple days but
anyway i do know that this is going to be a major release so i thought what the heck may as well
just get it do the review so that's exactly what we're doing today now anyway like i was saying
this could be available in two forms burrito or fries and i kind of opted for the burrito
i mean i thought why not i think a lot of people are gonna go with the burrito
so here's what it is the name is a lot so let's break it down inside the burrito
see i'm already losing my composure because i mean it's it's white hot
seasoned fries so they're still going with the nacho fries it's gonna have some of the
nacho fries in them nacho cheese sauce it's gonna have steak diced tomatoes because why
not you gotta have those tomatoes in there a three cheese blend sour cream
and then it's going to have their white hot ranch sauce and it's obviously a ranch sauce
it has buttermilk in it and also a ghost chili pepper it says so that makes it white hot
it's available the price of three dollars 49 cents for a burrito again it's called the steak
white hot ranch fries burrito so that's what it has in it
now let's open this up and let's find out for ourselves how it's going to be so here it is
look at that i don't know if you could tell but it kind of got a little darker
and that's not just because of the fact that i'm moving it toward the camera
you know why that is you want to guess it's because it's white hot
i know you can't really do too much but i mean look at that that seepage right there look at that
we have seepage confirmed that's the white hot sauce i bet it's gotta be can't be anything else
well actually it can be but we're not gonna go there i would assume that it's the white hot sauce
all right you know what it looks like you know what's in it we all know what's in it let's find
out if it's any good we're going to try it out the steak white hot ranch fries burrito let's
see how spicy this is let's see how good or bad it is we're trying it out right now the latest we
don't know if it's the greatest yet but we will find out soon from taco bell going in
so
we'll take one more bite
all right i know everyone's going to want me to bite that thing so i will
yes
my mouth is on fire right now and indeed i will say yeah it's hot it's white hot
yeah this thing is spicy and uh i will actually say i've tried taco bell so many
times i've tried so many things from taco bell i've tried so much utter garbage from taco bell
and there's a few you know hidden gems here and there uh i'm surprised i'm shocked actually
of two things number one the fact that it's adds actually it's not bad it's pretty solid
and number two how spicy this thing is uh i will say this is probably the spiciest thing from
taco bell i've ever had quite frankly i mean my goodness i will i'll say it it really is
this is one of those items i think that people may necessarily i think they'd be consuming it
more so i would wager as a novelty than something that actually tastes good i would see people
eating this because it's so hot or if you are a fan of all things spicy etc this might be for you
like i said it tastes alright but my goodness is it hot um wow and it's all in that sauce
let me tell you i think i've said this before in reviews but this kind of takes the cake you have
these fast food places that sit there and they say this is going to be spicy this is going to be um
the hottest this the hardest that i kind of scoff whenever i see ghost this ghost that because it's
usually nothing but wow this is uh it's spicy it is and um the aftertaste is still lingering it's
all in the sauce that's that's what's spicy in this it's the white hot sauce you could definitely
taste it's like an extremely extremely spicy ranch sauce that's what you could really taste in it
and it's so spicy that you can't really taste much else um i i took those bites you could still kind
of see there's a lot of it in there all the white stuff right there and there that's all that sauce
and even a little drop of it would be enough to probably kind of get you
but in these large quantities wow the spices is really really strong it's really potent
and it is lasting like i said it's going to hit you immediately it's going to spread throughout
your mouth um i kind of felt a little bit of like that rush of blood to my face um
like when i tried out those real hot wings back in um back in 2013 from planet wings um
not to that level but it was one of the few times where i've actually had that then i could kind
of feel the spice as i swallow going down and i feel it's sitting in my stomach right now so um
i think you should bear that in mind uh factoring that in but uh i i still feel it i feel like
it's sitting there burning a hole in my uh in my stomach i still have the aftertaste as i'm kind of
enunciating my experience uh to you kind of dying down a bit but with every breath that i kind of
exhale as i enunciate kind of comes back a little bit yeah it's really spicy probably the spiciest
item i've had from uh from taco bell now i don't know if yours is necessarily like i don't know how
they really make these i don't know if they just went all out and they put so much sauce on mine
that this is this has like the sauce equivalent of like three of them that they would normally make i
i don't know i think we understand with taco bell a lot of it comes down to individual preparation
but uh wow let me tell you if yours is made like this i mean yeah it's going to be it's going to
be hot um i'd say it's kind of it's no joke it actually gave me a little bit of a runny nose
which is a rarity yeah you might be saying all right all right come on review brian all
you're talking about is the spice that's all that there really is to talk about
quite frankly it's one of those items that's so spicy that um
you don't really notice anything else i kind of notice the fries a little bit i kind of notice
uh some of the nacho cheese sauce i kind of notice a steak but let me tell you if you get
this essentially everything else is going to be irrelevant what you're just going to notice is the
spice how it lingers how it builds upon itself the aftertaste how you're going to still feel
it sitting there in your stomach and um that's what you're going to notice you're not going to
be thinking about the tomatoes you're not going to be thinking about the steak you're not going to be
thinking oh you know how how salty is the steak or this that or the other thing you're not even going
to be thinking about that you're going to think wow this is hot and that's what it comes down to
so are some of these ingredients uh here in a bit frivolous because you can't really taste them yeah
you know it's like the three cheese blend and the tomatoes what purpose do they serve
not really any um most of the ingredients you could say that about however it still all comes
together it still tastes good you're just not really gonna notice much of anything like again
the steak what i noticed very similar to what we were talking about in the last burrito i tried
from taco bell um you know not bad not bad for what it is it's like fast food quality though
um the fries are going to be a bit soggy it's cheesy i'll give them that the tomatoes kind
of get lost in there the sour cream it's like what's the point of that too that's another thing
but wow spicy very spicy all things considered so it doesn't leave me with a ton to talk
about because again the prevailing flavor that cancels everything out is this spice
so here's what i will say as a wrap-up assessment um if you want a spicy item then get it
if you don't really want any spice and don't get it but that's going to be the forefront of
this item that's what you're going to notice here so if you want the spicy burrito um get
it while the getting's good and um you know it's what you're going to notice but otherwise
if you're kind of sensitive to spice or it's not what you're interested in then pass on it
but um all things considered it was advertised as being a very spicy burrito i would say that
it exceeded any expectations that i had it even took me by surprise so out of 10 i enjoyed it
would i necessarily get it again probably not i think it's just a bit much for me but you know
certainly it tastes it tastes good and uh again it exceeded those expectations in terms of spice so
it's affordable 3.49 a good amount of everything in it out of 10 i'm going to give it a 9 out of
ten because again yeah some of the ingredients could be frivolous but everything still tastes
good it all works together it all blends together and it's just so darn spicy so yeah
it's a fast food item that's actually hot would you believe it so there you have it that's all
that i have for you that's today's assessment trying out the steak white hot ranch fries burrito
from taco bell until next time thanks for watching take care i'm your host the report of the week