Nashville is well known for its hot chicken, and for good reason: not only was it invented there, but it's damned delicious. Bring that taste home to your own kitchen with Coop's Hot Chicken Paste. Designed to work with fried chicken that's already been cooked and is (almost) ready to serve, you simply heat the paste up, brush it on the chicken — more paste = more heat — and then eat it. Fittingly made in Nashville.
Spice and sweetness form a happy couple in Vermont Maple Sriracha. This small batch sauce is made by hand in Vermont, using pure local maple syrup, fresh fresno peppers, apple cider vinegar, salt, and garlic, and offers a sweet/savory heat that goes great on pretty much anything, morning, noon, or night. Free of preservatives, sulfites, and gluten, and shipped in a 8 oz. glass bottle.
We know your troubles. You want to put sriracha on everything, but some of those things you also want to eat with ketchup, and you don't want to double up on red sauces like a psychopath. The solution is simple. Grab some Srirachup instead. This mixture of well-balanced ketchup and Sosu's house-made sriracha gives you the best of both worlds without drawing attention to your love of blood-colored sauces.
There's no better way to customize your meal than with the right spices. And there are few things more tempting that the promise of adding some heat. St. Lucifer Spice is a blend of garlic, salt, vinegar and Habanero peppers that will fire up anything it's added to. If heat is your thing, it might be just as important as the salt and pepper.
So you love sriracha. Who doesn't? But unfortunately, not every establishment keeps this famed rooster sauce on hand for the chili enthusiast. Sriracha2Go solves this problem by making it easy to carry your own with you wherever you go. Measuring 4.5 inches by 1.6 inches, this small container holds 1.25 ounces of the delicious red stuff, and includes a built-in clip for attaching it to a keychain, bag, or belt loop.
If you're like us, you're fed up with the price of razors. And the mega shave company's plan to bring down the price by shaving with the same blade for a month is a disgusting recipe for disaster. Fortunately, there's Dollar Shave Club. They deliver amazing razors for a few bucks. Your first box comes with four cartridges and a free handle. Then every month (or every other month) you get a full sleeve of replacement cartridges for a couple bucks. That means you can afford to change blades as often as you like. That's an upgrade from scraping a month old blade across your face!
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Let's face it, just because you wore your shirt for one day to work, doesn't make it necessarily dirty — you sit at a desk all day, it's not like you're working up much of a sweat. The makers of Swash recognize that, giving you an alternative to taking your shirts to the dry cleaner after only one wear. It removes wrinkles and odors, while preserving and restoring your shirts for another wear. And because of its compact design, you can store it pretty much anywhere, saving you time and money at the dry cleaner, while keeping you looking great every day at work.
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Add a kick to your morning routine with Bees Knees Spicy Honey. Handmade in Brooklyn using raw honey from the Hudson Valley and a combination of chili peppers, each batch is carefully cool-infused, so it retains all the benefits of pure, unprocessed honey while offering just the right blend of flavors. It comes in 8 oz. bottles, pairs well with a surprisingly large number of foods, and comes with a Sting-Free guarantee: if you don't like it, they'll take care of you, and not in a scary mobster kind of way.
When it comes to great barbeque, perfectly cooked meat is only half the equation — you need a great sauce to pair with it. Lillie's Q Barbeque Sauces are here to do the hard work for you, offering up expertly blended sauces in flavors including Smoky, Hot Smoky, traditional Western Carolina, Carolina Gold, Eastern North Carolina, Hot Pepper Vinegar and Alabama-inspired Ivory. More of a rub man? They have those too, as well as one hell of a Bloody Mary mix. All you need is meat — and maybe some vodka.
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Sure, you can buy olive oil at pretty much any grocery store around, but if you're looking to do more than just cook with it, it helps to have some great EVOO on hand. Five Olive Oil certainly qualifies. Crafted from organic Koroneiki olives that are hand-picked and sustainably grown in Greece, this ultra premium oil is produced using cold extraction, and has as spicy flavor that's great for dipping or for use as the base in a killer sauce. Oh, and the bottle's pretty handsome, as well.
With your busy schedule, you don't have time to waste marinating delicious meats for a day or two before you head out to the grill — you need something that's going to get the job done fast. And that's where BBQ Bath comes in. Unlike marinades, brines work through osmosis, penetrating deep into your meat, making it juicy and tasty in as little as a half hour. Available in three flavors, you can choose apple chipotle BBQ, smoked habanero BBQ, or pineapple habanero jerk BBQ. All of them are a great way to tenderize steaks, chicken, and chops before you throw them on the grill, keeping them juicy and adding some incredible flavor.
Hey, it works for whiskey, so why not for another one of the key food groups, sriracha? Made using fresh, locally sourced ingredients — specifically chili peppers, brown sugar, garlic, and salt — Sosu Barrel-Aged Sriracha is a new take on everyone's favorite rooster-emblazoned condiment. Aged for one month in whiskey barrels, the pepper mash takes on sweet, fruity, and smoky notes that help balance out the spiciness of the sauce, making it an even more amazing accompaniment for eggs, meat, noodles, or anything else you can imagine.
Fed up with liquid hot sauces that too-often mask food rather than enhancing it, the guys bringing us Benny T's Vesta Dry Hot Sauce ($7-$10) have re-envisioned what a hot sauce should be. Made from fresh chiles grown on location in their pepper farm (boasting as many as 300 individual chile plants), this hot sauce isn't a sauce at all, but a rub. It's serious hot sauce for people who like their food seriously hot, available in three variations: hot, made from thai chiles and ahi amarillo; very hot, made from chocolate habaneros and scotch bonnets; and ghost, made from ghost chiles and a chocolate ghost hybrid.
Most days it's not really appropriate to start out with a Bloody Mary or Irish Coffee — so when you have a taste for the hard stuff, smear on some Puff's Preserves Boozy Jam ($TBA). While all the alcohol cooks off during the preparation process, the flavors of beer, whiskey, champagne, bourbon and wine remain. Seasonal recipes include apple beer chamomile, rhubarb vodka hibiscus, raspberry whiskey chipotle, and blackberry bourbon lavender. Each small batch is made with fresh, local, and in-season ingredients, as well as Colorado distilled or brewed booze.
Well, at least it's not trying to hide its possible side effects (we're looking at you, Chipotle hot sauce). Colon Cleaner Hot Sauce ($14) is a devastating blend of mustard, scotch bonnet peppers, salt, onions, water, vinegar, sugar, and some other goods that's ready to add a healthy blast of heat to pretty much anything you put it on. Just use it wisely — and by wisely, we mean don't load up on it at breakfast before heading out to a festival where your only chance of relief lies in the line for the porta potty.
Yes, it's still syrup — but that doesn't mean you should slather it on your pancakes and waffles. Instead, Smoked Maple Syrup ($12) is best saved for savory endeavors. This unique product is made by bubbling low-temperature smoke through a vat of pure Vermont maple syrup for approximately 24 hours, then refiltering the syrup to ensure a smooth consistency. The resulting mixture is strong, sweet, and smoky, and can add extra layers of flavor to your glazes, marinades, sauces, soups, and stews. [via]
If you're the type of person that starts your day off with eggs and Tobasco, why don't you give yourself an extra boost and replace the latter with DoubleKick Caffeinated Hot Sauce ($10). This flavorful condiment combines Asian and Southwestern chili sauces for a flavor all its own while packing the one-two punch of ginger and caffeine to get you going. With a rich taste that's both savory and sweet, it tastes great on nearly everything — and for added bonus points, put a spoonful or two into your next Bloody Mary and enjoy the results.
Anyone who's ever had some hot Thai peanut sauce knows that the chilis and peanuts can live happily together — as they do in Instant Regret Peanut Butter ($12). This surprisingly spicy spread is made with King Naga chilis, peanuts, oil, and a little Habanero chili extract. How hot is it? Well, it measures 12 million SHU on the Scoville Scale, or way hotter than the ghost chili, and approaching pure capsaicin — which is pretty much the hottest thing on Earth.
Who needs coffee with their pancakes when you can get a jolt of caffeine from the pancakes themselves? Wired Wyatt's Caffeinated Maple Syrup ($13) makes that dream possible. Packing as much caffeine as an energy drink in every tablespoon-sized serving, it's also all-natural, good for use on waffles, pancakes, and other breakfasty foods, and we hear it tastes pretty good, too.
With a name like that, you'd expect it to kick some ass — and you'd be correct. Honey Badger BBQ Sauce ($10-$125) combines the sweetness of honey with the mighty kick of habanero for a sauce that provides a nearly perfect balance between the two. Available in regular Cobra Strength or limited edition Triple Cobra Strength, it's the perfect thing to spread on your burgers, ribs, chicken, and yes, even venomous serpents.
We love us some Dale's, so of course we're jazzed to spice up our next meal with some Dale's Pale Ale Hot Sauce ($7). This chipotle-based sauce is infused with the hoppy deliciousness of Dale's Pale Ale, giving the already smoky flavor some added kick. If it's anything like the beer, use with caution, lest you end up eating every last bite of anything you sprinkle it on.
