Bitter: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Salty: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Sour: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Sweet: ⭐✰✰✰✰ Umami: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✰ Heat: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐✰✰✰✰ Quick Flavor Notes: Savory, garlic, basil, oregano Texture: Very thick, chunky Ingredients: Pepper Mash, Vinegar, Garlic, Onion, Italian Seasoning Recommended: Yes One of the things I enjoy about Ed Currie’s Puckerbutt Pepper Company is the constant drive to create new hot sauce flavors….
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…