I was excited to see this sauce and anxious to try it because of the Datil peppers used. Datils are a pepper popular especially in the St. Augustine, FL area (where the Hank Sauce crew went to school and originally met) that, depending on who you ask, either came to the area via Minorcan settlers,…
While I generally don’t go for fruit-forward hot sauces, I do enjoy cranberries quite a bit, and they’re not the most common fruit or berry to be found in hot sauces. So far the sauces I’ve tried from Gindo’s have all been excellent, so when Thanksgiving rolled around I decided it was the perfect opportunity…
Haico’s Hot Sauce was founded by the eponymous Haico in Ottawa, Canada. Haico immigrated from the Netherlands to Canada in 2005 and found that he missed the spicy flavors from his Indian and Indonesian family members. Haico’s Hot Sauce grows all of their peppers and as many vegetables as the Canadian climate allows on their…
Peppers matter. Tabasco wouldn’t be the juggernaut they are today if it weren’t for the McIlhenny family’s dedication to cultivating their high quality peppers in the special soil of Avery Island from the beginning. Huy Fong learned an expensive lesson when they parted with their long-term pepper supplier, Underwood Ranch, with most enthusiasts noting that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I first heard of this sauce, like nearly everyone else I’m sure, through the recent Taco Bell collaboration which included a boxed meal with several packets of this sauce. I enjoyed the Taco Bell sauce packets, so decided to order a few bottles of the sauce for myself. Omar Apollo is a Mexican-American musician. His…
After first trying the Mrs. Renfro’s Mango Habanero Salsa I was eager to try their spicier and more savory flavors. I can get behind a bit of sweet heat on occasion, but my true love lies with the sour, spicy, piquant, and savory. Since I’d generally enjoyed even their sweeter flavor, I placed an order…