Crispy Kytti’s Cauldron is a new hot sauce brand from a couple in Iowa. With sauces based on fantasy themes the company has a wide variety of creative flavors. The use of fermentation in their sauces aids in creating more complex flavors, and the small batch nature allows them to use high quality ingredients and…
Salsa is one of the most popular condiments in the USA – consistently outselling ketchup in total dollars sold since 1992. Unfortunately when browsing the aisles at the grocery store one is usually met with only mild and perhaps some medium options, and most laden with added sugar, corn syrup, starch, preservatives, and other industrial-food…
When I had the opportunity to beta test a number of the (at the time) new upcoming dry spice products from Heat Hot Sauce Shop there was a small packet of this seasoning in the bunch. At the time I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it, and ended up throwing it in with…
Cholula is a grocery store shelf staple, as well as a sauce that’s not uncommon to see on the tables of tex-mex or more gringo-oriented Mexican restaurants. Despite its ubiquity in suburban America today, the sauce actually has its roots in Jalisco, Mexico going back three generations. Originally developed by a chef for the Cuervo…
UFC Hot Sauce, not to be confused with Poirier’s Louisiana Style Hot Sauce made by the former UFC star, is a brand of hot sauce from the Philippines. Whenever I travel internationally I like to visit a supermarket and see what the local products available are, including hot sauces. On a trip to the Philippines…
Torchbearer has an extensive sauce lineup with a ton of variety. If I were trying to break it down however I’d go with a set of ‘core’ sauces and then some variations on those themes. Their core line of Everyday Sauce, Tingly Sauce, Sultry Sauce, Tarnation Sauce, and Slaughter Sauce are all variations on a…
I usually tend to avoid overtly smoky sauces as I find so many of them go very overboard on the smoke content. When I saw Joe’s Dos Veces Ahumado hot sauce though, and read about how the owner and sauce maker felt similarly about how so many smoked sauces taste overbearing and artificial and wanted…
This is another unique single-varietal limited release sauce from Butterfly Bakery of Vermont. This features the Trinidad Perfume pepper, a variant of the Trinidad Scorpion pepper that has virtually no heat, but still retains the floral and fruity flavor associated with the Trinidad Scorpion. According to BBoVT these peppers naturally start to become spicier through…
Having previously tried the Primo Garlic Crunch and Ghost Aleppo Garlic Crunch from Heat Hot Sauce, I decided I had to try their other flavors as well. Billed as their medium-heat option this garlic crunch leverages the nutty robust taste of fried garlic with the neutral to slightly fruity heat of Thai chiles. As far…
Zesti started out as a brand because of the founder’s boredom with the commercially available hot sauces and condiments available locally. Desiring to make new flavor combinations he worked with chefs to develop recipes and launched his own line. I purchased a box of their various sauces months ago and due to my backlog and…