In addition to making some of my favorite hot sauces Butterfly Bakery of Vermont has a very tasty line of mustards. Chipotle is a pepper I usually avoid in sauces because many combine the pepper with tons of added sugar and/or artificial or overbearing amounts of smoke flavor leading to sauces that taste very imbalanced…
Heat Hot Sauce Shop is one of my favorite places to buy sauces and spices online, not just because of their excellent selection of third party sauces and great pricing, but because they also have a very tasty line of their own in-house sauces, seasonings, and spices. I personally always keep a bottle of one…
Takis, originally launched in Mexico in 1999 and then two years later in the United States, has managed to bridge the gap between the snack shelves of Mexican grocery stores to widespread mainstream popularity through grassroots social media virality (as well as being pretty dang tasty). While their rolled chips are their first and most…
Bloody Marys are one of my favorite cocktails. I’ve always enjoyed tomato juice, so the opportunity to make it spicy and add some booze and fun garnishes is something I can’t pass up given the opportunity. When I saw that Mesquite Creek had a Bloody Mary flavor for their jerky it was one of the…
De La Viuda, literally meaning “of the widow”, is a sauce with a history dating back over 50 years in Mexico though its introduction to the US market is much more recent. The recipe for the sauce dates back to a widow from Jalisco, Mexico who sold the sauce from a street cart and was…
I’ve recently become more of a fan of beef jerky. It’s a great protein-packed snack that’s excellent for quelling hunger without a ton of calories and certainly better than binging on bags of chips or cookies from the office vending machines. While occasionally some very tasty brands show up on the shelves of the local…
On a recent order from Puckerbutt Pepper Company I had to get my total up a bit in order to get free shipping, and as I’d already selected the remaining sauces that interested me from the company and that I hadn’t added to my stockpile yet I decided to throw in this chocolate bar. Linda…
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…
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…