Smokin’ Ed Currie is both a giant and a rather polarizing figure in the hot pepper world. Whether you love him or hate him, he does know his marketing well, and holds claim to the two most recent ‘hottest pepper in the world’ records with the Carolina Reaper followed by the current champion Pepper X….
Tabasco is one of the most well known hot sauce brands in the world. Over time they’ve expanded their line-up from their original pepper sauce to include sauces made from habaneros, jalapenos, and even scorpion peppers plus a number of specialty products such as a Sriracha, a buffalo sauce, and most recently a Mexican style…
Blind Hot Sauce is a small craft operation out of Columbia Falls, MT, which appears to be about as remote and beautiful a location as I’ve seen any sauce hail from. Having begun development of their sauces in 2011 and retail sales in 2015, the company is nearing their ten year anniversary, which is impressive…
Most peppers come from a single species. Capsicum Annuum gives us bell peppers, jalapenos, and cayenne peppers for example, while Capsicum Chinense gives us habanero, Carolina reaper, and the Trinidad scorpion pepper. Ghost Peppers are unique in that they’re an interspecies hybrid of Capsicum Chinense as well as Capsicum Frutescens, a pepper species that includes…
When is a hot sauce not a hot sauce? This sauce comes from a company that makes a tremendous variety of hot sauces, and it comes in a the same 5 oz bottle that hot sauces nearly always come in, and even has a label just like their hot sauces, however this sauce has no…
I first heard of Donkey Sauce in the NY Times scathing review of Guy Fieri’s (now defunct) Times Square restaurant. Needless to say it didn’t make me want to run out and try the sauce, or stop by the restaurant the next time I was in NYC. I don’t have a problem with Guy Fieri….
The Montreal Canadiens are nicknamed the Habs due to a century-plus old miscommunication with a sports reporter about the meaning of the ‘H’ on their logo. Habs in the case of this sauce is short for Habaneros. Due to the proximity of Montreal to Vermont however, I feel there is a little bit of an…
Back in my college days I was spoiled for choice when it came to late night food options. Being in the Mid-Atlantic region we had multiple 24 Hour diners in town, several pizza places and calzone places open late, and of course the expected wing places. My two favorites were Wings-to-Go and Cluck-U, and for…
El Yucateco, once a brand that required trips to Mexican grocery stores to find, has been expanding their reach into mainstream grocery and retail outlets to the point where their sauces are rapidly approaching the same kind of name recognition as Valentina, Tapatio, or Cholula. Personally I’m happy to see this because along with Valentina…
Torchbearer Sauces, known for their all-natural lineup of extremely hot sauces, also has a range of mid-level and even mild sauces that don’t seem to get as much discussion as their monsters such as Garlic Reaper, Zombie Apocalypse, or The Rapture. I believe that’s a shame because the rest of their lineup is equally delicious,…