Chili Pepper News — hot sauce

How many different hot sauces have you tried in your life? Could you count them all? And how many times have you tried to make your own hot sauce at home? What sort of success did you have with it? Not totally right? Sometimes you get it right on the first try (just as we did with our Reaper Sriracha sauce), and sometimes it takes a little bit more experimenting to transform average sauces into perfect ones. And, just how do you do that?

When’s the last time you really took a look at the hot sauce shelves at the grocery store? Or any fast food (or fast-casual) menu? Whether you’ve just done it, or you’re making a mental note to check next time you head out for a snack or grocery shopping, you’re bound to notice something: Hot sauces are a big deal.

Ever tried to help someone in their kitchen? You reach into the cupboard to find the soy sauce and you can’t. “Are you out of soy sauce? Where do you keep it?” Then the exasperated reply comes, “it’s in the fridge.” You can hear terrible descriptives regarding your kitchen abilities even though they’ve not actually been said.

At the beginning of a new year, it’s quite natural to spend a lot of your time focusing forward. There are all those resolutions to consider now (before they disappear from your mind halfway through the year) and plenty of goals, vacations, and celebrations coming up in the next few months. At Ashley Foods, we’re also looking forward. We have new sauces and products on the horizon, not to mention all those fiery chilies we need to grow.