Steve’s Snaketuary, in Shreveport Louisiana, dedicates itself to helping ease fear of snakes through education about their benefits and interesting biology. They also run a service to safely remove unwanted snakes that wander into homes as well as providing an adoption and rehoming service for pet snakes to prevent them from being destroyed or released…
Firecracker Pepper Sauce hails from Toronto, Canada and was born from the union of a Canadian man and his ethnically Indo-Trinidadian fiancé who were looking for something unique to give out as wedding favors. They decided on a Trinidadian style pepper sauce using a recipe from her family and the sauce was such a hit…
Miso, the umami-packed Japanese ingredient made of fermented soybeans, has been gaining popularity continually outside of Japan. While a range of styles exist for miso, the most common are made from Koji, rice inoculated with Aspergillus oryzae mold, which is in turn added to soybeans and left to ferment them over a period of time,…
Elijah’s hot sauces, especially their Xtreme line, have been popular in online hot sauce forums for their combination of solid heat and flavor. The has been a father-son duo since its inception, with this particular sauce being the first one launched by the company. I had been wanting to try some of their lineup for…
I don’t have positive feelings about Pepper Palace. The company began as a retailer of hot sauces and other spicy specialty foods and became quite successful in doing so. Their move that I take issue with is that eventually they decided they didn’t want to share their profits with craft hot sauce makers and opened…
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,…