I bought my 100th bottle of Tabasco® sauce the other day. OK, I made that up but it's probably close. I bought it because I eat a lot of gourmet hot sauce and forgot how this classic hot sauce...

The Scoville scale is a classification system measuring the amount of concentrated capsaicin in a hot pepper and is also used to determine the heat level of hot sauce. The scale has been used for...

There are many varieties of hot peppers but all of them may not be used to make hot sauce. Some of the more common peppers used for various cuisine have a lower level of heat to them. However,...

Gourmet hot sauces are becoming as popular if not more popular than some of the traditional and classic hot sauce flavors we have been eating for decades. They can have lush flavor profiles and...

A smoke flavor is a strong flavor that can be used in many different food applications. This flavor fits nicely within the flavor profile of a hot sauce and this combination works great with...

Eating spicy food and hot sauce condiments is not a new phenomenon in dining. Spicey foods can be traced back for centuries and nearly every culture has some form of spicy cuisine. The idea of...