Durham Heat, for Veggies, Fish, and Meat.
Award-winning small-batch sauces from Durham, NC. Peppers are always the first ingredient in our hot sauces, not vinegar and not fruit filler.
Free shipping on every order over $35. Packs are the easy way to get there and to taste more of the lineup, since one bottle costs nearly as much to ship as four.
One of each of our award-winning hot sauces, from mild to hot HOT.
$5 from free shipping.
Add the Death Rides a Bull tee for $20 with this pack.
The three that end up living next to the salt and pepper.
A good first order if you're new to us.
Add the Death Rides a Bull tee for $20 with this pack.
The skeleton rider from our Death Rides a Bull label, on a shirt. Pre-order: shirts start shipping the week of October 19. Order by October 22 to have it for Halloween.
Sauce ordered with a shirt ships with the shirt.
Single bottles start at $7 below.
Goes good on everything you used to put Tabasco on. Eggs, tacos, anything that wants heat without being scared off.
Eggs any style, tacos, roasted vegetables, grilled fish, and anything else on the "Durham Heat for Veggies, Fish, and Meat" list.
The horn on the back of every bottle fills with color to show how hot that sauce runs.
Goes good on everything you used to put Tabasco on. Eggs, tacos, anything that wants heat without being scared off.
Bright, tangy heat for fish, veggies, and anything that needs lift.
Bright, citrusy with a craveable heat unlike anything you have ever had.
2x First Place Winner, our hottest production sauce.
48 numbered bottles. Our hottest release to date.
Better than ketchup. Spunkier than mustard. Goes great on hot dogs, chicken tenders, burgers, fries, and more.
Bigger packs, cases, peppers and stickers.
Sweat It Out, Episode 1. Five sauces, three hosts, zero mercy. The closest thing we have to watching somebody meet the sauces for the first time.
Straight answers to the things people ask us most.
Peppers are always the first ingredient in our hot sauces. Not water, not vinegar, not fruit filler. That is the whole of what Peppers-First means, and it is why the sauce tastes like the harvest instead of like salt and acid. Carolina Zinger is a spicy condiment rather than a hot sauce, so it is built to a different recipe and this does not describe it.
Yes. Vegan and gluten free.
Ten medals in three years at the NC Hot Sauce Competition in Oxford, North Carolina. Rambunctious Red took first place for Best Mild and Best Sauce Overall. Good Gracious Green took first for Best Verde. Death Rides a Bull is a two-time first place winner. Golden Hurricane came out of the 2025 competition a semi-finalist in the hot category.
Our hottest production sauce, a 10 out of 10 on our own scale, built on the Fatal Death Pepper, a Carolina Reaper crossed with a Yellow Fatalii that we grow ourselves.
Carolina Zinger is a spicy condiment, not a hot sauce. Tomato and mustard seed base with a hint of real Carolina Reaper, built for hot dogs, tenders, fries, and burgers off the grill.
No, and it is not close. Texas Pete publishes 340 to 740 Scoville units for its Original. Tabasco publishes 2,500 to 5,000 for its Original Red. So Tabasco is roughly four to seven times hotter. Worth knowing: most heat charts online list Texas Pete at exactly 747 SHU. Texas Pete does not say that anywhere. That number comes from a retailer chart, not from the company.
Rambunctious Red and Good Gracious Green sit at 3 out of 10 on our scale, which puts them about where Tabasco lands. Frank’s RedHot and Texas Pete are milder still, around a 1. Golden Hurricane at 8 is well past Yellowbird’s habanero. Death Rides a Bull at 10 is a different category entirely. The placements are our tasting judgement, not lab work, and we say so on the heat scale page.
Rambunctious Red if you want a daily driver for eggs and tacos. Good Gracious Green if you cook a lot of fish and vegetables. Both are mild.
Direct from us, from independent shops and grocers across North Carolina, and wholesale through Faire. The Where to Find Us page lists all 104 locations.
$25 each or $20 with the purchase of The 4 Pack of Award-winning Hot Sauces or the Carolina Zinger Gift Pack.
Pre-order the teeShirts start shipping the week of October 19. Order by October 22 to have it for Halloween. Sauce ordered with a shirt ships with the shirt.
