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…
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…