This is another sauce that I brought back with me from Mexico. The Zaaschila brand has started to show up on American grocery store shelves, but their three-entry Gourmet line of sauces doesn’t appear to have made it north of the border yet. Looking up Zaaschila they’re a Mexican company based out of the northern…
After first trying the Mrs. Renfro’s Mango Habanero Salsa I was eager to try their spicier and more savory flavors. I can get behind a bit of sweet heat on occasion, but my true love lies with the sour, spicy, piquant, and savory. Since I’d generally enjoyed even their sweeter flavor, I placed an order…
I’ve recently reviewed my favorite flavor of the Deathnuts / Blazing Foods Crack Balls, but when browsing the site for some other goodies I noticed that they had a new flavor I hadn’t seen before – Bacon Jalapeno. This is supposed to be one step up from their mildest flavor, Hatch Chile, but even their…
Butterfly Bakery of Vermont makes a number of beer collaboration hot sauces. It’s a style I’m particularly fond of as there’s a natural affinity between the flavors of beer and those of spicy food, so much that they’re commonly consumed together in cultures throughout the world. This sauce is unique in the Butterfly Bakery of…
Based out of Porstmouth, NH The Spicy Shark hasn’t been around as long as some other hot sauce companies, just entering the scene a few years ago in 2018, but they’ve made a name amongst enthusiasts with creative flavor profiles and sponsoring a number of hot sauce and spicy food events in the New England…
This is another one of my little treasures I brought back from my trip to Mexico, though when doing some research on the brand I discovered it is available for sale in the USA via online purchase. Interestingly the US market salsas are just branded as Patricia Quintana without the Gavilla. Patricia Quintana is a…
Gindo’s is one of the brands of sauces I’d been wanting to try for a while. They seem to have some very dedicated and vocal fans in the greater Chicago area where they’re based, and I appreciate that they have both a steady lineup of “always available” sauces as well as a rotating case of…
I’ve tried a lot of different hot sauces. Most of them I have enjoyed, and some have stood out as being great. An even smaller number have reached that level of near perfection where I crave them and keep bottles of them on hand, unable to resist the urge to pop one open on occasion…
On a trip to Mexico earlier this year I went a bit overboard every time I saw new hot sauces or salsas I’d never seen for sale in the United States that my checked bag was quite over weight when ready to head back home. Thankfully the gentleman at the check-in desk wasn’t sure how…
When I first heard about ‘crack balls’ I was intrigued, both by the name and the concept. Blazing Foods, also known as Death Nuts, makes a variety of extremely spicy challenge products such as the Death Nuts challenge and the Tube of Terror. They also make a great line of spicy snacks meant to be…