This is another Torchbearer sauce I’d ordered multiple months ago but hadn’t had the opportunity to get to opening it until recently. I’ve enjoyed the vast majority of sauces I’ve tried from Torchbearer, I enjoy the flavor of horseradish, and I enjoy ghost peppers, so I’m not quite sure why it took me so long…
Growing up in the Mid-Atlantic region Herr’s chips were ubiquitous. I remember the television commercials with company founder Jim Herr and his tagline “Make Herr’s Yours”. After moving to Florida it wasn’t as easy to find Herr’s snacks until the greatest convenience store chain in America, Wawa, finally made its way down here to our…
Every time I see the name of this brand I’m reminded of the novel Dracula, and the character Renfield. In fact I usually need to look it up to remember that the name of that character is Renfield and not Renfro. That aside, this company is not named after a Dracula character, but rather the…
Founded in 1896 and still operating out of their original Harlem location (as well as additional outposts in Los Angeles and Miami since) Rao’s is one of the most recognizable names in Italian-American cuisine. Capitalizing on that name they’ve launched an extensive line of prepared foods that can be purchased at your local grocery store,…
Smokin’ Ed Currie is both a giant and a rather polarizing figure in the hot pepper world. Whether you love him or hate him, he does know his marketing well, and holds claim to the two most recent ‘hottest pepper in the world’ records with the Carolina Reaper followed by the current champion Pepper X….
Tabasco is one of the most well known hot sauce brands in the world. Over time they’ve expanded their line-up from their original pepper sauce to include sauces made from habaneros, jalapenos, and even scorpion peppers plus a number of specialty products such as a Sriracha, a buffalo sauce, and most recently a Mexican style…
Blind Hot Sauce is a small craft operation out of Columbia Falls, MT, which appears to be about as remote and beautiful a location as I’ve seen any sauce hail from. Having begun development of their sauces in 2011 and retail sales in 2015, the company is nearing their ten year anniversary, which is impressive…
Most peppers come from a single species. Capsicum Annuum gives us bell peppers, jalapenos, and cayenne peppers for example, while Capsicum Chinense gives us habanero, Carolina reaper, and the Trinidad scorpion pepper. Ghost Peppers are unique in that they’re an interspecies hybrid of Capsicum Chinense as well as Capsicum Frutescens, a pepper species that includes…
When is a hot sauce not a hot sauce? This sauce comes from a company that makes a tremendous variety of hot sauces, and it comes in a the same 5 oz bottle that hot sauces nearly always come in, and even has a label just like their hot sauces, however this sauce has no…
I first heard of Donkey Sauce in the NY Times scathing review of Guy Fieri’s (now defunct) Times Square restaurant. Needless to say it didn’t make me want to run out and try the sauce, or stop by the restaurant the next time I was in NYC. I don’t have a problem with Guy Fieri….