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…
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…