I’ve never followed the UFC or other fighting sports (football is quite violent enough for me and I actually understand the rules vs UFC and boxing) but from what I understand Dustin Poirier is a mixed martial arts UFC competitor and is generally known as a pretty nice guy as far as the sport goes….
San Diego’s Down to Ferment, or as they sometimes cheekily call themselves DTF, has a good sense of humor as well as a unique take on hot sauce. Using fermentation to create lactic acid and combining that with acetic acid from their own brewed kombucha they’re able to make shelf stable sauces without the addition…
I’ve long been a fan of Bravo’s cooking competition TV show Top Chef, appreciating that they keep the focus on high quality cooking competition and don’t devote much screen time to personal drama. When I saw that Heatonist had a line of hot sauces made in collaboration with the Bravo Top Chef team I knew…
I’ve been trying to mix up the brands in my reviews to cover as wide a base as possible, but I can’t help myself from going back to Butterfly Bakery of Vermont sauces more often than not. Between their consistent use of high quality ingredients, their insistence on making all-natural sauces, and their propensity towards…
I was excited to see this sauce and anxious to try it because of the Datil peppers used. Datils are a pepper popular especially in the St. Augustine, FL area (where the Hank Sauce crew went to school and originally met) that, depending on who you ask, either came to the area via Minorcan settlers,…
While I generally don’t go for fruit-forward hot sauces, I do enjoy cranberries quite a bit, and they’re not the most common fruit or berry to be found in hot sauces. So far the sauces I’ve tried from Gindo’s have all been excellent, so when Thanksgiving rolled around I decided it was the perfect opportunity…
With the tagline of “got the guts? eat my nuts!” and the cheeky double-entendre in the name of this particular product it’s clear that Hot Monkey Nuts has a pretty slick marketing department and is going for an irreverent and fun vibe with their products and targeted clientele. According to their website the owner found…
Blazing Foods (which confusingly also seems to run a parallel website called Deathnuts.com) makes a variety of spicy (or not so spicy) cheese balls that they call Crack Balls. I’ve samples all of their flavors and all are delicious, and will work on getting reviews up on each as I open new bags. Hatch Green…
Vermont is something of an unexpected hot sauce hot spot. Known in most of the country for Bernie Sanders, Phish, and maple syrup, hot sauce isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you consider our nation’s 2nd-least populous state. Lurking beneath those idyllic snow covered hills and quaint villages smelling of woodsmoke and…
Haico’s Hot Sauce was founded by the eponymous Haico in Ottawa, Canada. Haico immigrated from the Netherlands to Canada in 2005 and found that he missed the spicy flavors from his Indian and Indonesian family members. Haico’s Hot Sauce grows all of their peppers and as many vegetables as the Canadian climate allows on their…