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  • The End: Flatline Hot Sauce
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    The End: Flatline Hot Sauce


    This is a warning, and a real warning, not like some of the funny, we-only-sorta-mean-it warnings on our other hot sauces: This is our hottest hot ...

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  • Pepper Palace Black Rose Hot Sauce on hash browns and eggs
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    Black Rose Hot Sauce


    Say hello to your new signature ingredient! One of our original Pepper Palace recipes, this best-selling hot sauce helped us start a fiery flavor r...

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  • Smokin Reaper Hot Sauce Nutrition Panel
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    Smokin' Reaper Hot Sauce


    The grim reaper awaits us all, but with this hot sauce made with Carolina reaper peppers, he is only coming for your tastebuds. The carrot and vege...

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  • Pepper Palace Calamity Pain Hot Sauce
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    Calamity Pain Hot Sauce


    Take a ride out to the wild frontier and lasso up a bottle of our savory hot sauce with true grit. Whether you add it to a tin can of beans or a go...

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    Scorpion Death Stalker Hot Sauce


    This Caribbean-style hot sauce packs a sting that will stalk your taste buds long after your meal ends. The luscious taste of tomatoes blends with ...

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    Habanero Mango Hot Sauce - Medium


    We toned down the habaneros in this batch for a more manageable sweet heat.Ingredients: carrots, onion, vinegar, garlic, lime juice, salt, sugar, h...

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  • Garlic Fusion Hot Sauce Nutrition Panel
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    Garlic Fusion Hot Sauce


    Experience a reactive fusion of flavors when you add this eat-with-anything cayenne and garlic hot sauce to your favorite dish. Perfectly balanced ...

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  • Times Up Tomato Nutrition Panel
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    Times Up Tomato Blend Reaper Hot Sauce


    We’ll give mild flavors about ten seconds to either run for the hills or submit to being covered by our Carolina reaper hot sauce. The thick blend ...

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  • Voodoo Reaper Nutrition Panel
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    Voodoo Reaper Hot Sauce


    Experience the ultimate alchemy of cajun flavors with our Voodoo Reaper Hot Sauce. The fiery Carolina Reaper peppers create a sauce so hot, your ta...

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    Chesapeake Bay Hot Sauce


    Chesapeake Bay Hot Sauce is influenced by the traditional Maryland dishes, with garlic, paprika, celery seed, and other spices. This versatile hot ...

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    Strained Brain Hot Sauce


    The Brain Strain Pepper is not for the faint of heart. Renowned for its blistering heat, this pepper variety commands attention with its intense Sc...

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  • Ghost Mustard Hot Sauce Nutrition Panel
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    Ghost Mustard Hot Sauce


    “Put some mustard on it” gets a whole new meaning with our habanero ghost pepper sauce. The delicious blend of golden honey, hand-selected spices, ...

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  • Mr Pain Hot Sauce Nutrition Panel
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    Mr Pain Hot Sauce


    Our pepper extract hot sauce gives new meaning to the phrase “no pain, no gain” with the use of its mind-blowing 1,000,000 Scoville Unit heat extra...

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  • King Scotch Bonnet on a shrimp gumbo over grits
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    King Scotch Bonnet Hot Sauce


    This new sauce in our It's Good to be a King line is liquid gold! King Scotch Bonnet is a slightly fruity and citrus flavored hot sauce. With a str...

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  • Pepper Palace Argentina Chimichurri Hot Sauce Taste of Argentina
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    Argentina Chimichurri Hot Sauce


    Make any meal feel as fancy as a Friday night steakhouse dinner when you top your dish with a splash of our chimichurri hot sauce. This bold take o...

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  • Ghost in the Darkness Hot Sauce Nutrition Panel
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    Ghost in the Darkness Hot Sauce


    Like a deadly tigress, our flavor-forward ghost pepper, cayenne, and peri peri hot sauce quietly stalks across your tastebuds, barely noticeable. T...

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  • Southern Peach and Vidalia Onion Nutrition Panel
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    Southern Peach and Vidalia Onion Hot Sauce


    Well, bless your heart if you’ve never had a chance to try our sweet hot sauce. We’ve hand crafted the perfect blend of vidalia onions, peaches, an...

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  • Sweeter Reaper with ham
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    Sweeter Reaper Hot Sauce


    Reap ‘em and weep! Our Sweeter Reaper Hot Sauce starts out innocent and sweet, putting delicious pineapple and coconut flavors forward. You’ll star...

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  • Smoked Serrano Hot Sauce on a pulled pork sandwich
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    Smoked Serrano Hot Sauce


    Smoked pepper fans rejoice! This new sauce uses smoked serrano peppers to create a wonderful flavor with the perfect amount of heat. Enjoy a vinega...

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    Hoppin' Heat Hot Sauce


    Get ready to hop into a world of bold flavors with Pepper Palace's Hoppin Heat Hot Sauce. Crafted with care, this unique sauce combines the vibrant...

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  • Smokestack Hot Sauce Nutrition Panel
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    Smokestack Hot Sauce


    We are not blowing smoke—our smoky hot sauce is stacked with flavor that could punch a hole in the ozone. With the rich flavor of chipotle and caye...

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  • La Diablesse with Caribbean Folk Lore Lady in the background
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    La Diablesse Hot Sauce


    You don’t need to make a deal with the devil to save yourself from unseasoned food—just use our flavorful habanero mustard sauce. The rich Caribbea...

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  • King Habanero Hot Sauce with a hamburger
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    King Habanero Hot Sauce


    Other hot sauces bow down before our kingly carrot habanero hot sauce. The royal blend of aged red peppers, habaneros, and carrots will set your ta...

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  • Kentucky Charred Hot Sauce on a pulled pork chicken
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    Kentucky Charred Hot Sauce


    Kentucky Charred is a delicious medium heat hot sauce made with the smoky Chipotle pepper. Enjoy the smoky flavor of the Chipotle on the front end,...

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  • What a jerk hot sauce nutrition panel
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    What A Jerk Hot Sauce


    Traditional Scotch Bonnet peppers meet mustard seed and a blend of handcrafted herbs and spices for a flavor that begs to top beef patties, coco br...

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  • Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce Nutrition Panel
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    Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce


    Calling all ghost hunters! Add the best ghost pepper hot sauce to your collection and enjoy something much more fun than an alleged dead president ...

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  • Mango Fusion Hot Sauce Nutrition Panel
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    Mango Fusion Hot Sauce


    Add sugar, spice, and everything nice to your favorite dish with our sweet mango hot sauce. The delectable fusion of mango and habanero makes for a...

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  • Peach Fusion Hot Sauce with Peaches and Habaneros
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    Peach Fusion Hot Sauce


    While we can’t explain cold fusion, we can explain how the fusion of sweet and heat in our peach habanero hot sauce will nuke your tastebuds with f...

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  • Sauce Makers Reserve Medium with Meatballs
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    Sauce Makers Reserve - Medium


    Guess who's back? Our gourmet hot sauce, that’s who! We brought the recipe in-house to improve the quality of the ingredients and—most importantly—...

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  • Cinnamon Habanero Hot Sauce being poured on Sweet Potatoes
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    Cinnanero Hot Sauce


    Sure, you’ll put hot sauce on chicken or steak. But are you brave enough to try our cinnamon hot sauce on your apple pie a la mode? You should be! ...

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  • Trinidad Scorpion with Garlic Nutrition Panel
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    Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Hot sauce w Garlic


    Bring the legends about ultra-spicy and ultra-rare peppers to life in your personal hot sauce collection with our Trinidad Moruga scorpion and garl...

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  • Pepper Palace Aztec Green Habanero Salsa Picante
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    Aztec Green Habanero Salsa Picante


    The flavor of our Aztec-inspired Mexican green habanero hot sauce is so heavenly, you will think Quetzalcoatl himself gave us the recipe. Pour this...

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  • Reaper Fusion Hot Sauce with lasagna
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    Reaper Fusion Hot Sauce


    We’d like to let you in on a little secret: Our medium-heat garlic fusion hot sauce got so popular we decided to take things to the next level and ...

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    Datil Do Hot Sauce


    Get ready to embark on a flavor journey to the sunny shores of St. Augustine with Pepper Palace’s first Datil Pepper hot sauce. Crafted with the le...

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  • Pepper Palace Red Eye Rooster Hot Sauce
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    Red Eye Rooster Hot Sauce


    Cock-a-doodle-do and try something new with our delicious fermented chili hot sauce. Our twist on popular Asian-style sauces features a balanced bl...

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    Southern Redneck Hot Sauce


    We won’t get you a step ladder to help you negotiate your pickup truck’s lift kit and we sure as shootin’ won’t sugar-coat how spicy our best haban...

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  • Rooster Reaper Hot Sauce with a plate of chicken
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    Rooster Reaper Hot Sauce


    Why did the chicken cross the road? Because the rooster reaper was after her. If you like the flavor of traditional sriracha sauce but yearn for a ...

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  • Peach Serrano Hot Sauce Nutrition Panel
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    Peach Serrano Hot Sauce


    Meet the Southern Belle of our serrano pepper hot sauces: our Peach Serrano Hot Sauce. You don’t need to plan a trip to Georgia to experience the t...

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  • King Jalapeno Hot Sauce with Fresh and sliced jalapenos
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    King Jalapeno Hot Sauce


    “If you come for the king, you better not miss,” says our King Jalapeno Hot Sauce when challenged to compete with any other mild jalapeno hot sauce...

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  • Sweet Chipotle Nutrition Panel
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    Sweet Chipotle Hot Sauce


    Take your favorite meal’s flavor game up a notch when you add a dash or a glug of our sweet chipotle hot sauce. The smoky flavor of fire-roasted ch...

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    Sleepy Joe Hot Sauce


    Crafted to be a "hand-on leader" of your kitchen, this sauce packs a punch of heat. Go ahead and "give it a sniff"! This will be the best hot sauc...

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    Pineapple Serrano Hot Sauce


    Take your taste buds to explore a new world of flavor possibilities with our lip-smackin’ pineapple hot sauce. The handcrafted blend of sweet pinea...

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    Donald Trump Hot Sauce


    "There will be hell toupee" after you try this delicious hot sauce. Don't worry though, "we shall overcomb" the heat from this hot sauce. Every per...

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  • Habanero Mango Hot Hot Sauce nutrition panel
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    Habanero Mango Hot Sauce - Hot


    Close your eyes and picture this: You’re on a beach with an umbrella drink in one hand, dipping a bite of freshly fried fish into a sweet habanero ...

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    Kamala Harris Hot Sauce


    The newest sauce in our comical Presidential Lineup! Kamal-Ugh Hot Sauce is the sauce that no one voted for. One taste of this sauce will have you ...

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  • Apple Smoked Habanero Hot Sauce on Pork and apples
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    Apple Smoked Habanero Hot Sauce


    Make Johnny Appleseed proud when you pour on our apple and smoked habanero hot sauce. We add apples and a little bit of brown sugar to spicy habane...

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  • Ghostly Garlic Fusion on pizza
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    Ghostly Garlic Fusion Hot Sauce


    This garlicky hot sauce is a Pepper Palace bestseller, and for good reason: Hardcore chiliheads appreciate the balanced burn from cayenne, habanero...

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    Pepper Palace Hot Honey


    Now introducing Pepper Palace's pepper infused honey! This unique blend of pure honey and peppers will add a fiery kick blended with the honey swee...

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The World’s Best Hot Sauces, According to People Who Know Hot Sauce

With over 90 unique hot sauces, Pepper Palace has the best hot sauce for every taste. Looking for something mild or fruity? Check out our mild hot sauces - the perfect blend of flavor and spice to complement any dish. Prefer a hot sauce that will light you up and make you breathe fire? Look no further - our x-hot and extreme hot sauces are reserved for only the most hardcore chili-heads. For everyone else, try our medium and hot hot sauces for that perfect balance of flavor with a kick.

Which hot sauce is best?

We don’t want to toot our own horn, but our hot sauces have won multiple awards which we would say makes them, objectively, the best hot sauces in the world. Everyone has their own favorite, though, so why not go on a taste-test adventure to decide for yourself? Start with our best sellers or chat with a sauce boss for help picking the best hot sauce.

Is hot sauce good for you?

Rejoice, because your favorite condiment is not only delicious but it’s also good for you. The main ingredient in hot sauce is capsaicin, that devilish little minx that puts the “hot” in “hot sauce”. Fortunately, it does more than just torture unassuming frat boys - capsaicin is also reported to help with weight loss and appetite control, boost your immune system, and make you happier. So skip the fad diets, pour on the sauce, and cheers to your good health!

Does hot sauce go bad?

We’re going to assume you’re asking this question to find out if those old hot sauce packets you have crowding your take-out drawer are still safe to snarf down because you finished all of your delicious Pepper Palace hot sauces already. Hurry up and order more delicious sauces, then relax because your packets are probably still safe. Unopened hot sauce is typically good for three years or longer, while opened hot sauces are usually safe as long as they’re stored according to bottle directions (just be wary of that crust around the cap - it can breed bacteria).

As hot sauces age, they might change color or flavor, and might even get spicier as the peppers mature. Fancy sauces with fruits and other funky ingredients generally have a shorter shelf life than pure pepper/vinegar combos. If your hot sauce has a “best by” date, it’s probably best to abide in order to get the best flavor from your sauce. But if you’re in a pinch, that expired bottle of “The End” that you just discovered in the back of your pantry isn’t likely to kill you.

Who invented hot sauce?

Primitive hot sauces were used as early as 7000 BC by the Aztecs - perhaps as a failed attempt at human sacrifice? Their simple chili pepper and water combination was used for everything from tacos to combat. Pepper pastes have been used in different forms since then, leading to the first patented hot sauce in 1906 by Edmund MchIlhenny (you might have heard of him). Then Pepper Palace came along and reinvented hot sauce with our fresh ingredients and unique flavor combinations so good they could resurrect Montezuma (but we won’t do that because zombies).