 What's up everyone? We're back with another video. I'm Takedown. I'm Ashley. And today we are doing the McDonald's Spicy McChicken Challenge. I believe that's what it's called. We have all three of them here. The Habanero, the Sashwan, and the Ghost Pepper McChickens. This is going to be awesome. I think we've tried some of the lower ones before. The last time I did this challenge for a video, I absolutely loved the Jalapeno one, which was the not-so-hot one back then. I absolutely loved it. They didn't bring it back. Instead, they made the Sashwan one for this time. So are you excited? Okay, so we have all three of them in front of us. We're going to start with the lowest heat one, which is Habanero and Workware, way up to the Ghost Pepper one. And share our thoughts and everything along the way of which one we enjoyed the most. The Habanero one here in Canada is actually one after the last challenge. It became a permanent fixture. So if you go to McDonald's any time all year around and get the Habanero McChicken, I wonder if this time whichever one is the best one, if they're going to keep it around and replace the Habanero permanently. I think that'd be interesting, but let's get right into this. So here is the Habanero McChicken. This here, if you lift it up, it has kind of an orange sauce, which is the Habanero, kind of like a spicy mayo sauce, but with Habanero in it. This is going to be really good, but it's not going to be as hot because since this is a permanent fixture here for our local McDonald's and area, this is one that we've had quite a bit. So we know what it's going to taste like. And it's really good. I like the Habanero one. Absolutely love it. Do you want to try it first? Sure. Habanero is good. It's not too hot, but I don't know how high I'm going to rank it. It's good? Mm-hmm. Spicy? Not really, no. Just like a slight heat, but I'll try it. Mm-hmm. I don't find the Habanero one very spicy, but it's really good. Although I'm not getting much of a Habanero. It doesn't know. I don't find it tastes like Habanero. It's not spicy as well. If you get the sauce on like a little piece of lettuce, it hits you a little bit harder than just taking bites of it. Mm-hmm. So since this is the lowest heat one, do you want to rank them out of 10? Like the spiciest there? Yeah, like how overall you enjoyed them. I'd say like an eight. Mm-hmm. I'd give it a seven because it's something that's a permanent fixture over here. Not too spicy, a lot of flavor, and that's what I like about the lower end ones for the Spicy McChicken Challenge. It's not about burning. It's about overall flavor, and as they increase, they just get hotter and there's not much flavor in my opinion. Mm-hmm. So now we're going to move on to the Sashwan burger. This one here is one that is new this year. This one I'm excited to try because I heard it's good. I heard it's good now. Not much of a difference for the look. I can't really tell. It just looks a little orange, just like the habanero. Yeah, looks pretty much identical. I'm just going to take a bite here. It smells smokier than the habanero, which just felt spicy. Okay. Is it spicier than the habanero? Surprisingly, yes. Mm-hmm. Like I thought it was just going to be tastier. The burn, there is a burn. It stays there a lot longer, but I enjoy that a lot more than the habanero. At least this one here. I didn't find it was much habanero sauce on this one, and it wasn't hot enough for me. Oh, this one is a burn. This one burns. Yeah, but it's a nice burn I find, at least in my opinion. I think it's a good burn, smoky taste, kind of peppery, amazing flavor, and it works well with the chicken, which I mean, I'm going to rank this one higher than habanero. The sauce, yeah, it's really good. Yeah, I still have the burn there, and I only took one bite. I still have the burn out of the back of my tongue, not really on the throat or anything. I'm going to rank this one, I'm going to rank it out of a 9 out of 10, because I like this one and would prefer to purchase this one, and this one be a permanent fixture than the habanero, just because the habanero is good, but this one has a little bit more heat without overdoing it, at least my opinion. I do like the burn that I'm feeling still, because I do really like spicy stuff, so yeah, I'll have to give it a 9 out of 10. 9 out of 10? Yeah. So right now, we enjoyed this one better than habanero. We have one left though, the last one, which came out March 8th. These are available until the end of March, I believe, around, I don't know, around the 20th, something like that, which is why we wanted to get to it now, but now we have the ghost pepper one, and if I remember correctly, last time I did the video for the spicy challenge, this one was the hottest, and to the point that I didn't enjoy it too much. I'm just going to lift it up here so you guys can see the bright orange sauce. Yeah, this one looks scary. Habanero had kind of like a mayo sauce with an orange hue to it. The other one, slash one, looked the exact same. This one here is dark orange. Do you want to try it first, or do you want me to? Yeah, sure, mine's will go for it. You want to? Yeah, sure. Okay. I know I'm going to regret this. Yeah, it looks, I didn't smell it though. Honestly, I don't smell anything right now. You did for the slash one though. Yeah. I smelled the slash one. It smelled spicier, but smokier, flavorful. You got a lot of salt. They put a lot of ghost pepper sauce on this one. Is it burn? Maybe it's a slow burn. Maybe, because I don't taste anything right now. No. I'll have another bite. Okay, nothing yet? Is it weird that I don't have a burn? I don't know. I don't know. My mouth is still a bit on fire from the slash one, so it's hard to tell, but it's good. Oh, I feel it. It's hot. It's hot. Maybe you got a couple bites that didn't have much hot sauce. Holy crap, that's hot. That's hot. Wow. I see the bright red sauce here for bright orange. I'm going to take another bite. I feel it now. I'm just going to try the sauce. Not to the point that I don't enjoy it. Last time, I don't know if it's the same sauce or not, if they tweaked it. Actually, you know what? I don't know if I enjoy it. Holy shit. It's more spice than flavor. And I like the seasoning of the chicken on the McChicken. Mm-hmm. I don't get any of the flavor from McChicken. Mm-hmm. Once the sauce hits, there goes your taste buds, and it's just pure burn. Yeah, this one, yeah. I definitely feel it now. That's really hot. That's, wow. It's like burning my throat. Yeah, me too. For a heat level, if I had to rank just the heat, it's obviously a 10 out of 10 because it burns in the last. Mm-hmm. The habanero went away instantly. Yeah, it doesn't stick around at all. It's like a nice flavor. The Sash one, my mouth's in fire just from this one. The Sash one, amazing smoky flavor. The heat was there. It lasted a little long, but nothing like this. This one here, holy crap. Yeah. Your face is red. Yeah, I know. It's not really picking up on the camera, but holy crap. I'm going to start sweating. I still like the taste of it. It's just, it's hard to enjoy it when it's not hot. Since we're ranking it on how we enjoy it though, spice was 10 out of 10, but enjoying it, I'm going to say a 3 out of 10 for me. It's, you don't even taste the McChicken. You don't have any of the signature McDonald's taste in this, which I think is iconic. So the fact that it's no flavor at all, just pure spice and burn, 3 out of 10 for me. I'd say a 5 out of 10. I still really like the spice, even though it's really, really, really hot. Like it's good and I would, I'd put it maybe a little less on it. Yeah. And use that for other dishes because that is a nice hot sauce, but out of these three, which is one that you'd like to see a permanent fixture for the McChickens? Definitely Sash one because that one's really good. The flavor is really nice. That honestly be my pick too, because Habanero we've had for over a year now since the last McDonald's spicy McChicken taste test and it's great. I would have preferred them to keep the first one from the last time, which was jalapeno, which was amazing. Just like a spicy mayo, but I get that they wanted something a little bit more, which was Habanero, but having it this past year, eating it a few times throughout the year, it's great, but I want a little bit more of a kick and the Sash one gives you that kick, but it doesn't burn for too long and it doesn't ruin, like the ghost pepper doesn't ruin any of the flavor of the McChicken. It just adds a little spice and a little kick to it where the ghost pepper destroys all taste of the McChicken. So honestly, I feel like this was an amazing challenge to do. I'm so happy that we got the chance to do it because I think last time, when I did it, I did three separate videos and I tried each one separately. Getting all three done in one video was a lot better because you can honestly rank them as you go and get the overall taste of which one you liked better. So hope you guys enjoyed this video. Expect to see more taste tests from us in the future. My nose is running right now from the ghost pepper. Holy crap, that's terrible. But yeah, we're going to be doing some blind taste tests. We have a hot sauce challenge that we're going to be doing. We're going to get some McDonald's chicken nuggets and do it. It's hot sauce from around the world. We're going to be doing various things like that. So if you guys want to see anything else from us, food wise, taste test wise, let us know. A whole bunch of new stuff coming up for 2021 and for the future. So hopefully you guys liked this. I absolutely love doing these videos and we'll see you guys in the next one. Please take care. Bye. Bye.