Torchbearer isn’t new about doing sauce collaborations with various celebrities. They have have sauces with Danny Wood (of New Kids on the Block), Nekrogoblikon, and most recently the band Shinedown. I’d picked up several bottles of this TorchedStone Thai earlier in the year when Torchbearer had announced they were going on final clearance, and at…
Keith is a member of the Try Guys, a YouTube/TV entertainment group who take on a variety of tasks, many of them food related. I’ve only seen a bit of their content, but when placing an order at Heatonist a while back and needing to get my total up to a figure that’d earn me…
I’d heard of Karma Sauce from a variety of online sources before I had my first experience with one of the company’s sauces, their Scorpion Disco that I enjoyed as part of taste-testing and ranking 10 different scorpion pepper based sauces (an informative and fun experience, though one that tested the limits of my spice…
Peppers matter. Tabasco wouldn’t be the juggernaut they are today if it weren’t for the McIlhenny family’s dedication to cultivating their high quality peppers in the special soil of Avery Island from the beginning. Huy Fong learned an expensive lesson when they parted with their long-term pepper supplier, Underwood Ranch, with most enthusiasts noting that…
This is another sauce that I brought back from Mexico on a trip that I took earlier in the year. La Anita seemed to be fairly common in Mexico, however it’s not a brand I had recalled seeing in the USA – although I have since discovered they do have some limited distribution inside of…
Sometimes I’ll see a sauce label that immediately grabs my attention and makes me interested in purchasing one or more sauces from that company. That was the case with Alliumphobia. I saw a post regarding in on Reddit and the cute little vampire running away from the garlic bulb grabbed my attention. When I looked…
While I’m not a lover of tropical fruit-based hot sauces, I do love coconut. My favorite candy bars are Mounds (Almond Joy would be great if they subbed in pecans instead of almonds, which I always find taste dusty, but I digress…), I love German Chocolate Cake for that golden coconut frosting, macaroons will forever…
I picked this up as part of a box set of Pain is Good sauces on clearance sale on the Spicin Foods website a bit ago. This was the sauce that made me decide to go for the box set, as while I’ve seen jars of harissa for sale on the grocery store shelves, I’d…
Smokin’ Ed Currie, the inventory of the Carolina Reaper and the new record holder of hottest pepper in the world, Pepper X, has a huge variety of sauces available via his Puckerbutt Pepper Company store, from the sweet to the savory, with many creative flavor combinations, and many available in multiple heat levels. The one…
Bravado Spice Co is a craft hot sauce company out of Texas, founded in 2012 that’s grown to have a national presence with their products available in many specialty stores and some grocery store chains. One interesting tidbit is that apparently one of the company founders was on Masterchef Season 4. They have a wide…