Hot Sauce
We’ve chosen the best hot sauces in the country for your enjoyment. Whether you like just a little heat, or like the challenge of a fire that can’t be doused, you’ll find it here. Or just read the descriptions and follow through to the ingredient pages for a little inspiration to create your own hot sauces.
Just in case you’re curious, yes, I do get a commission if you purchase these sauces. And I freely admit that I would never put some of these sauces on my tender tongue. But my son would eat them for breakfast. Maybe your tongue is a little more fire proof than mine. So enjoy! (If you can take it.)
 Dave’s Gourmet Crazy Caribbean Hot Sauce Price: 4.99 Dave’s Crazy Caribbean Sauce features fresh lime, habanero peppers and carrots for authentic island flavor. Add this tasty all-purpose hot sauce to pasta, rice, chicken, beans, potatoes, soups, and any other dish begging for Caribbean heat and flavo…Read More |
 Dave’s Gourmet Ginger Peach Hot Sauce Price: 4.99 Dave’s Ginger Peach Hot Sauce is slightly sweet, medium-hot and fruity, making it the perfect complement for chicken, fish, lamb and pork. You can even use it on vanilla ice cream! Dave’s Ginger Peach Hot Sauce is a palate-pleaser that is sure to b…Read More |
 El Yucateco Caribbean Hot Sauce Price: 3.35 This Caribbean-style hot sauce may be made in Mexico, but it is chock full of habanero peppers and island flavors. Use El Yucateco Caribbean Hot Sauce as an all-purpose habanero sauce when you want to add some real fire to your food. El Yucateco Ho…Read More |
 El Yucateco Chipotle Hot Sauce Price: 3.35 This authentic Mexican hot sauce gets is smoky flavor and deep, rich color from chipotles, which are smoked Jalapeno peppers. Not as hot as a habanero sauce, El Yucateco Chipotle Hot Sauce is terrific in chili, and on any dish in need of smoky flavo…Read More |
 El Yucateco Jalapeno Hot Sauce Price: 3.35 This authentic Mexican sauce is full of jalapenos and garlic for great flavor and fire without the pain of a habanero sauce. Not only is El Yucateco Jalapeno Hot Sauce tasty, but it is also a lovely shade of green: splash it on nachos, scrambled eggs…Read More |
 Hog’s Breath Key West Green Hot Sauce Price: 5.89 Straight from the Hog’s Breath Saloon in Key West, this emerald green sauce is laden with jalapenos and garlic. Hog’s Breath Key West Green Hot Sauce is perfect for…Read More |
 Hog’s Breath Key West Red Hot Sauce Price: 5.89 This Louisiana-style hot sauce is served at the Hog’s Breath Saloon in Key West for its cayenne zing, and is featured in their signature bloody Marys and hot chicken wings. Use Hog’s Breath Key West Red Hot Sauce in soups, dips, eggs, burgers, seafood, and pizza. It als adds flavor and fire to marinades, BBQ, and anything else that needs a flavor explosion…Read More |
 Jamaica Hell Fire 2 in 1 Hot Sauce Price: 4.25 Jamaica Hell Fire is a red-hot sauce made with sun-ripened tropical peppers and a dash of authentic Jamaican allspice. Splash it on anything that needs a sizzle!…Read More |
 Kiss Of Fire Ultimate XXX Hot Sauce Price: 6.75 This sensuous scotch bonnet sauce is perfect for spicing up salsas, chili, stirfry dishes, drinks and dipping sauces. Sprinkle Kiss of Fire sparingly on meats, poultry, seafood, pasta, rice, veggies or anything else your heart desires. Kiss of Fire …Read More |
 Lawyer’s Breath Hot Sauce Price: 5.45 Judicious helpings of garlic, jalapenos and habaneros provide clear and convincing evidence that this hot sauce is guilty of assault with flavor and fire. The Lawyer’s Breath label encourages you to ‘apply liberally to all your proceedings.’ Refrige…Read More |
 Matouk’s West Indian Hot Sauce Price: 4.95 Matouk’s West Indian Hot Sauce is a fruity, medium-heat sauce from Trinidad & Tobago. Also called Matouk’s West Indian Salsa Picante, the combination of papaya and scotch bonnet peppers featured in this tasty hot sauce will give any dish some tropic…Read More |
 Pain Is Good Batch #114 Jamaican Hot Sauce Price: 6.50 Habaneros, tomatoes, pineapple juice and jerk spices combine to give this hot sauce its Jamaican flavor. Pleasure and pain in a bottle, for your enjoyment – hey mon, this Pain is Good! No preservatives. Refrigerate after opening….Read More |
 Pain is Good Batch #218 Louisiana Hot Sauce Price: 6.50 This Louisiana-style hot sauce combines habanero and cayenne peppers in a malt vinegar and tomato base with plenty of cajun seasonings, for a taste thatll take you to the Bayou. Pain may hurt, but sometimes Pain is Good! Refrigerate after opening….Read More |
 Pain Is Good Batch #37 Garlic Hot Sauce Price: 6.50 Generous amounts of garlic grace this habanero hot sauce, and its brilliant orange color and fabulous flavor come from carrots, mustard seed and a turmeric spice blend. Pain never tasted (or looked) so good! No preservatives. Refrigerate after open…Read More |
 Ring Of Fire Chipotle Garlic Hot Sauce Price: 8.50 Ring of Fire Chipotle & Roasted Garlic Hot Sauce is a national award-winner at the National Fiery Foods Show, and you’ll know why when you taste it. This thick and hearty homestyle sauce combines the rich smoky flavor of chipotles and roasted garlic…Read More |
 Ring Of Fire Habanero Hot Sauce Price: 8.50 The original Ring of Fire hot sauce from California, this sauce captures the flavor of the Old Southwest and adds just the right amount of habanero heat. Made in small batches using only the finest ingredients, Ring of Fire Hot Sauce truly captures …Read More |
 Ring Of Fire Tomatillo Hot Sauce Price: 8.50 A savory blend of four types of peppers, tomatillos, cilantro and roasted garlic give this sauce its Southwest flavor. Try Ring Of Fire Tomatillo Hot Sauce on Tex-Mex food, or any dish that could use a boost from flavorful heat. You get your money’s…Read More |
 Scorned Woman Sweet Majic Hot Sauce Price: 3.99 Scorned Woman Sweet Majic is a sweet and spicy fruit-based sauce that is bursting with flavor and heat. Tamer than the original Scorned Woman hot sauce, Sweet Majic is delicious on burgers, grilled seafood, poultry and meats, or even as a dip! Refr…Read More |
 Susie’s Calypso Hot Sauce Price: 6.75 Since 1960, Susie’s Hot Sauce in Antigua/Barbuda has set the standard for authentic tropical heat and flavor, with her line of spicy pepper sauces. This particular West Indies hot sauce is a masterful medley of hot peppers, fresh garden herbs and sp…Read More |
 Susie’s Original Hot Sauce Price: 6.75 This Antiguan sauce is known worldwide for its wonderful blend of hot peppers, mustard and Caribbean spices, and is made with the recipe that put Susie’s Hot Sauces on the map. And now you don’t have to travel to the West Indies to experience this t…Read More |
 Texas Pete Hot Sauce – 6 oz. Price: 2.25 Never mind the name, this is a North Carolina original, made in Winston-Salem! Texas Pete is THE perfect hot sauce for your homemade hot chicken wings, and the label even has a recipe for authentic buffalo style wings. Splash some Texas Pete Hot Sa…Read More |
 Toad Sweat Dessert Hot Sauce Mini 4-Pack Price: 5.95 This set of 4 mini bottles is a great way to sample the award-winning Toad Sweat line of gourmet hot sauces for desserts! Featuring the mild Lemon Vanilla Dessert Hot Sauce, the medium Chocolate Orange Dessert Hot Sauce and Cranberry Dessert Hot Sauce, and the hot Key Lime Dessert Hot Sauce. Think of these deliciously unique sweet-n-spicy sauces as dessert toppings with a peppery kick. Use them on everything from ice cream, cheesecake, lemon bars or brownies to pancakes and waffles, hot oatmeal and other hot cereals…Read More |
 Toad Sweat Chocolate Orange Dessert Hot Sauce Price: 4.25 Winner of the ‘Best New Product’ award from Chile Pepper Magazine in 2001, this unique sweet-n-spicy hot sauce is wonderful on ice cream, pancakes, sweet potatoes, cheesecake and mixed into brownies before baking. Think of it as a dessert topping, wi…Read More |
 Toad Sweat Cranberry Dessert Hot Sauce Price: 4.25 Cranberries, cocoa, cinnamon and habaneros make Toad Sweat Cranberry Hot Sauce a unique medium-hot topping for ice cream, fresh fruit and pancakes. Stir it into oatmeal, or use as a marinade, grilling sauce or glaze for poultry or shrimp. Try Toad Sw…Read More |
 Toad Sweat Key Lime Dessert Hot Sauce Price: 4.25 This is the hottest of the Toad Sweat bunch, combining key lime flavor with a habanero punch. Toad Sweat Key Lime Dessert Hot Sauce is great on ice cream, fresh fruit, popcorn, and even french fries. Use it as a marinade or grilling sauce, or as an …Read More |
 Toad Sweat Lemon Vanilla Dessert Hot Sauce Price: 4.25 This is the mildest Toad Sweat sauce, with a touch of habaneros to liven up a wonderful blend of vanilla essence and lemon juice. Toad Sweat Lemon Vanilla Dessert Hot Sauce is wonderful on ice cream, bread pudding and lemon bars, in sopapillas or te…Read More |
 Scorned Woman Hot Sauce Price: 3.99 Scorned Woman Hot Sauce combines several different peppers in a tasty, tangy base to create some furious fire for your food. As the bottle says, ‘Hell hath no fury like a scorned woman.’ A long-time favorite among hot sauce fans, Scorned Woman Hot …Read More |
 Ole Time Hot Sauce Price: 4.50 Created from an old Snow Hill, NC family recipe that’s been passed down for 3 generations, this vinegar-based hot BBQ sauce makes terrific eastern NC-style pulled pork, and also works as a table sauce for french fries, greens and other veggies. Use Ole Time Hot Sauce when grilling ribs and chicken, too, for zesty flavor and just the right amount of heat. A Goodness Grows in NC product. …Read More |
 Crabanero Hot Sauce Price: 5.95 Made with the original Old Bay (TM) seafood seasoning plus a healthy dose of fiery habanero peppers, Crabanero Hot Sauce was specifically created for sprinkling on raw or steamed shellfish like oysters, shrimp, crab and more. Crabanero also adds gre…Read More |
 Georgia Peach & Vidalia Onion Hot Sauce Price: 5.25 Georgia Peach & Vidalia Onion Hot Sauce is as delicious as the bottle is lovely, with its beautiful Southern Belle on the label and its red velvet top cover. This mildly spicy, award-winning sauce artfully blends two Southern delicacies – ripe Georg…Read More |
 Mad Dog .357 Hot Sauce Price: 9.25 The label on this ultra-hot hot sauce warns that “this sauce will blow you away”, and since it’s made with habaneros rating 357,000 Scoville units of heat, they are not kidding! Cayenne peppers, red habaneros and pepper extract generate the firepower, and cane sugar, garlic and onions add the flavor (assuming your tastebuds survive the initial assault and battery with this deadly weapon)…Read More |
 Mad Dog Inferno Hot Sauce Price: 6.25 Do not be fooled by the initial smooth taste of molasses and cloves when you first taste Mad Dog Inferno Hot Sauce. With 90,000 scovilles of pepper, this sauce will bite you back! Mad Dog Inferno adds great spicy flavor to any dish that needs fire — but be careful when using, or you’ll end up with rabidly-hot food!…Read More |
 Predator Great White Shark Hot Sauce Price: 5.25 Because of its extreme heat (over 175,000 scoville units), Predator Great White Shark is actually a food additive rather than a sauce, and should be used only one drop at a time while cooking (instead of directly on served food). Predator is not for the faint of heart or tongue, and currently holds 10th place on our list of the hottest hot sauces…Read More |
 Jump Up & Kiss Me Original Hot Sauce with Passion Price: 5.25 Jump Up & Kiss Me, the Original Hot Sauce with Passion, is an all-natural, full-flavored hot sauce made with papaya, honey and ginger to complement fiery habaneros. Its flavor is slightly reminiscent of curry, and is wonderful with pork, chicken and…Read More |
 Vicious Viper Hot Sauce Price: 7.99 This ultra-hot sauce is really a food additive, to be used only a drop at a time in cooking (and not directly on served food), as the label warns. If your taste buds are strong enough to withstand its vicious bite, Vicious Viper Hot Sauce will rewar…Read More |
 You Can’t Handle This Hot Sauce Price: 5.85 This multiple national award-winning ultra-hot sauce ranks 9th on our list of hottest hot sauces (posted on the Carolina Sauce Company blog), and has been featured on the “Roker on the Road” and “Regis and Kathie Lee” programs on TV. You Can’t Handle This Hot Sauce is aptly named and is best used one drop at a time, taking great care not to get any on your skin and especially not in your eyes. That being said…Read More |
 Acid Rain Hot Sauce Price: 5.95 This international award-winning hot sauce from Calgary, Alberta (yes, a Canadian hot sauce!) packs a wallop with a unique multi-pepper blend in a citrusy base for a fiery but flavorful experience. Acid rain may be an undesirable weather problem, but Acid Rain Hot Sauce is a very desirable addition to your…Read More |
 Ultra-Hot Hot Sauce Gift Set Price: 65.00 WARNING: This collection contains some of the HOTTEST products we carry!! Because of their extreme heat, these are technically food additives to be used only in cooking, NOT directly on served food, and only one microdrop at a time. That being said, if you can handle extreme heat or are a serious hot sauce collector, this gift set is for you. Featuring…Read More |
 So Sue Me Hot Sauce Price: 5.95 A hot sauce for the litigious-minded, So Sue Me is a feloneous blend of jalapenos, onion, garlic and pepper extract. If you like Lawyers Breath Hot Sauce but want to turn up the heat, this is the hot sauce for you! Refrigerate after opening….Read More |
 Slap Your Mama Hot Sauce Price: 5.99 While we do not recommend that you go around hitting friends or family, Slap Your Mamma Hot Sauce will have you slapping your tongue and begging for more. The vinegar-mustard base really lets the flavor and heat of the habanero peppers shine through. Splash on anything that …Read More |
 Dat’l Do It Hot Sauce Price: 4.99 Dat’l Do It Hot Sauce hails from the oldest city in the nation, St. Augustine FL, and features the rare and elusive datil pepper in a delicious, tomato-rich base that gets its slight sweetness from real clover honey. Its unique flavor and spicy fire…Read More |
 Texas Pete Hot Sauce – 12 oz. Price: 3.50 Ignore the name – Texas Pete is a North Carolina original, made in Winston-Salem! Texas Pete is THE perfect hot sauce for your homemade hot chicken wings, and the label even has a recipe for authentic buffalo style wings. Splash some Texas Pete Hot…Read More |
 Marie Sharp’s Grapefruit Pulp Habanero Hot Sauce Price: 4.45 Marie Sharp’s Grapefruit Pulp Habanero Hot Sauce is a unique and flavorful blend of yellow habanero peppers in a tangy grapefruit base. But don’t be deceived by the pretty pale-yellow color: this Belizean sauce is not sweet, and it’s seriously hot! …Read More |
 Marie Sharp’s Orange Pulp Habanero Hot Sauce Price: 4.45 Marie Sharp’s Orange Pulp Habanero Hot Sauce achieves the perfect balance of flavor and heat with its unique blend of yellow habanero peppers and tropical orange pulp. Don’t be fooled by the sunny yellow color of this Belizean sauce: it’s not sweet,…Read More |
 Burning Asphalt Habanero Hot Sauce Price: 4.95 The label warns that “racing is dangerous, but safer than Burning Asphalt Hot Sauce!” One taste of this fiery Habanero sauce and we think you’ll agree! Burning Asphalt Habanero Hot Sauce is perfect for adding serious heat to Mexican dishes, chili, …Read More |
 Burning Asphalt Jalapeno Hot Sauce Price: 4.95 Burning Asphalt Jalapeno Hot Sauce is a medium-heat sauce full of fresh southwestern flavor that’s perfect for Tex-Mex dishes, chili, salsa, nachos and the like. You can also use it in soups, pickling recipes, and on pizza, eggs and your other favor…Read More |
 Burning Asphalt Garlic Habanero Hot Sauce Price: 4.95 The folks at Burning Asphalt use only the highest quality fresh ingredients to make this tasty Garlic Habanero Hot Sauce. Pour some Burning Asphalt on virtually anything for true garlic zip and habanero fire that will complement any dish without dro…Read More |
 Kato’s Down South Hot Sauce Price: 5.95 If you’re looking for a straightforward, fresh-tasting scotch bonnet sauce, look no further than Kato’s Down South Hot Sauce. Made from scotch bonnet peppers, carrots and vinegar – and nothing else – this thick, all-natural sauce has a clean, fresh flavor and medium heat, making it ideal for enhancing any dish without overwhelming or masking other flavors. We like to add Kato’s Down South Hot Sauce to chili, stews, …Read More |
 Mile High Hot Sauce Price: 5.25 Colonel Cooper’s Famous Mile High Hot Sauce features ripe-red jalapeno peppers in all their fiery glory! Its creator, Col. M.P. Cooper, a former Air Force fighter pilot, grows his jalapenos on a 5-acre plot of land located on the Goldsboro Wayne Airport property in Pikeville North Carolina. He combines the ripe jalapenos with vinegar, salt and a secret blend of spices, and then cooks the mixture to release the…Read More |
 Blue’s Habanero Reserve Hot Sauce Price: 6.99 This award-winning, palate-pleasing hot sauce was born in Concord, NC, but its fiery heat will bring to mind far hotter locales! The intense firepower comes from a generous dose of Red Savina Habanero peppers, with some help from cayenne, chile and …Read More |
 Black Mamba Venomous Hot Sauce Price: 13.50 The Black Mamba is a seriously deadly snake. And now it’s also a seriously hot ultra-hot sauce that delivers a venomous bite with just a tiny toothpick drop. Made with chocolate habaneros (as hot if not hotter than Red Savina habaneros) and capsaicin extract, Black Mamba is only for cast-iron stomachs and teflon-coated tongues. The intense heat is …Read More |
 Texas Pete Garlic Hot Sauce – 6 oz Price: 2.25 Garlic lovers, rejoice: The folks who brought us the original Texas Pete Hot Sauce have now added a zesty Garlic recipe to their Texas Pete lineup! Featuring the same pleasantly peppery medium heat level as the original, this North Carolina hot sau…Read More |
 Texas Pete Hotter Hot Sauce – 6 oz Price: 2.25 Are you a fan of Texas Pete’s peppery-tangy flavor, but wish there was a version with more of a fiery kick? Do you make your own Buffalo-style chicken wings but want a hotter straightforward pepper sauce so you can ratchet up the heat? Then Texas P…Read More |
 Venom Xtreme Hot Sauce Price: 5.95 Let the name and scary label of Venom Xtreme Hot Sauce serve as a warning: This ultra-hot sauce is deadly dangerous, delivering around 95,000 Scoville Units of searing capsaicin firepower. Technically, Venom isn’t even a hot sauce, but rather a food additive designed to be used by the drop in cooking and never directly on served food. That said…Read More |
 Durn Good Hot Sauce: Durn Good Hot Sauce, 5 oz Price: 4.95 If you’ve tried most of the grocery store hot sauces and found them boring and one-dimensional, then Durn Good Hot Sauce will spice up your life with its peppery “pop” and feisty spiciness! Developed by a hot sauce connoisseur in Wake Forest, NC, who wanted to create a distinctive food-friendly flavor to accompany the heat, Durn Good Hot Sauce has hundreds of uses including buffalo wings, bloody mary’s…Read More |
 Durn Good Hot Sauce: Durn Good Hot Sauce, 1.5 oz mini Price: 1.25 With its secret blend of peppers and spices in a tangy vinegar base, Durn Good Hot Sauce delivers a pleasant medium burn with fuller flavors that will complement, not overpower, your food. A Goodness Grows in NC product…Read More |
 Uncle Brutha’s Fire Hot Sauce No. 10 Price: 5.99 ***ON SALE – Limited Quantities Available*** Winner of multiple awards including the First Place “Golden Chile” award for the best XXX Hot Sauce at the 2006 Fiery Foods Challenge, Uncle Brutha’s Fire Sauce No. 10 is a fiery four-pepper blend of habane…Read More |
 Louisiana Swamp Scum Hot Sauce Price: 4.99 The mysterious, mossy bayous of Louisiana Cajun country bring us the unique, award-winning hot sauce called Louisiana Swamp Scum. The sauce’s appearance lives up to its name, with a murky, forest-green color that reminds one of algae-filled pondwate…Read More |
 Matouk’s Soca Hot Sauce Price: 4.95 Matouk’s Soca Hot Sauce is the newest member of the famous Matouk’s Hot Sauce product line from Trinidad & Tobago in the West Indies. Hotter than all the other flavors except for the incendiary Matouk’s Flambeau, Matouk’s Soca Hot Sauce is seriously…Read More |
 Race City Sauce Works Moonshiners Run Whisky Barrel Hot Sauce Price: 5.99 Race City Sauce Works Moonshiners Run Whisky Barrel Hot Sauce was born in the heart of NASCAR country in North Carolina, and this flavorful hot sauce belongs in the winner’s circle. In fact, it took 2nd Place at the prestigious 2009 Zest Fest Golden Chile Awards in Ft. Worth, Texas! Made with 8 different locally grown chile peppers that are smoked and hand-blended with a secret mix of herbs and spices plus NC sweet potatoes and a splash of bourbon…Read More |
 Dave’s Ghost Pepper Naga Jolokia Hot Sauce Price: 7.95 Dave’s Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce is the newest addition to the Dave’s Gourmet product line, and this ultra hot sauce is “so hot it’s spooky”! Made with the hottest pepper in the world, the Naga Jolokia or “ghost pepper”, Dave’s Gourmet Ghost Pepper Sauce should be used as a food additive (in cooking, and one toothpick drop at a time), and the warnings on the label are serious…Read More |
 Melinda’s Naga Jolokia Hot Sauce Price: 6.99The Naga Jolokia (also called the Bhut Jolokia or ghost pepper) is the world’s hottest pepper, and here it’s blended with carrots, onions, papaya, passion fruit and other fine ingredients to create Melinda’s hottest hot sauce ever. This ultra-hot sa…Read More |
