What's in your sauces, exactly?

Whole chiles (fresh or dried depending on the variety), fresh garlic, unfiltered apple cider vinegar, sea salt, and the occasional citrus or spice that the recipe calls for. That's it. We don't use xanthan gum, sodium benzoate, or any preservative you'd need to look up.

How does the subscription work?

Each month we ship a curated 2–3 bottle pack based on what's in season and what we've been making. You'll get a note about what's in the box and why we picked it. You can skip any month or cancel anytime from your account — no call required, no penalty.

Can I choose which sauces I get?

On the monthly subscription, we curate for you. If you want to pick your own lineup, the Build-Your-Own Pack lets you choose any three bottles from the full collection. Either way you get the same sauces — it's just a matter of how much say you want.

Do you ship outside the US?

Not yet. We ship to all 48 contiguous states. Alaska, Hawaii, and international shipping are things we'd love to figure out — we just want to do it right, and we're not there yet.

How long do the sauces last?

Unopened, about 12 months in a cool, dry spot. Once you open a bottle, keep it in the fridge and use it within 60 days for best flavor. In our experience it's never lasted that long.

What if I get a bad batch?

It has not happened yet, but if something is wrong with your order we will fix it. Email us with your order number and a photo, and we'll send a replacement the same week. No runaround.

Small-batch · Family made · Since the first jar

Small-batch hot sauce made by our family,
for yours.

Real ingredients, family recipes, and a love of great food — shipped straight to your door every month.

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Artisan hot sauce bottles on a rustic wooden table

Made in our kitchen. Shipped to yours.

How we started

A joyful family cooking together in a cozy farmhouse kitchen

Sunday afternoons, every week.

Every sauce starts with a Sunday afternoon.

It started with a cast-iron pot, a bag of dried chiles, and a grandmother who kept no written recipes. You learned by standing next to her, tasting, adjusting — and eventually, by trying to remember exactly what she did.

We are Pepper Folks. A family of four in a real kitchen, making hot sauce from real ingredients: whole chiles, roasted garlic, apple cider vinegar, and the kind of patience that only comes from doing something because you love it.

No contract manufacturers. No stabilizers. No three-alarm gimmicks. Just the sauces we actually put on our own food — and now yours.

12: Sauce varieties
4: Family members making every batch
0: Artificial ingredients. Ever.

Good hot sauce doesn't need a story about being the hottest sauce in the world. It needs a story about the person who made it.

What we believe

How it's made

Slow heat, whole ingredients, no shortcuts.

We source our chiles from small farms — New Mexico Hatch, California Fresno, Texas pequin — roasting or drying each variety by hand before anything goes into the pot. Garlic is always fresh. Vinegar is always apple cider.

Each batch is cooked slowly on the stovetop, tasted at every stage, and adjusted by feel. We bottle it warm, seal it tight, and let it rest before it ships. From first pepper to final label, every sauce is touched by a real person in our family.

We make small batches on purpose. That means some sauces sell out. It also means every jar you get was made with care — not speed.

What goes in

Whole dried and fresh chiles — variety changes by season
Fresh garlic, never powder
Unfiltered apple cider vinegar
Sea salt, citrus, and a handful of family secrets

Vibrant chili peppers, garlic, and spices arranged on a wooden board

Hatch season brings the best of the year.

What we believe

Three things we won't compromise on.

Ingredients you can pronounce.

We read our own label before we print it. No xanthan gum, no sodium benzoate, no "natural flavors" as a catch-all. If it won't sound right when said out loud at the dinner table, it does not go in the bottle.

Heat that serves the food.

We make sauces you actually want to taste — not sauces that challenge you to survive them. Every heat level we offer is designed to make a dish better, not to replace the dish. That is harder to do. We think it's worth it.

Made ourselves. No exceptions.

We have been offered the chance to scale. We've said no. A contract manufacturer can make 10,000 jars. We can make 200 really good ones. The day we can't make it ourselves is the day we stop selling it.

The people behind the sauce

Dinner at our house. Always too much food. Never enough sauce.

We are the Pepper Folks.

We are parents, kids, and a grandmother whose chile colorado is still the gold standard in this family. We live in the same town we grew up in. We cook the way we were taught — together, slowly, with whatever looked good at the market that week.

Shipping our sauces to your home is genuinely one of the best parts of doing this. Every order means someone, somewhere, is about to put something real on their table.

From people who've ordered

"Finally a hot sauce that tastes like something. I put it on everything — eggs, tacos, soup. My kids steal it."

Marcus T., Chicago, IL — subscribes monthly

"I sent a three-pack to my dad for Father's Day and he called me to ask for more. That's a first."

Priya S., Austin, TX — one-time order

"The Hatch verde is something else. I've tried a lot of hot sauces. This one has flavor."

Rebecca K., Portland, OR — subscribes monthly

Questions

Answers worth reading.

What's in your sauces, exactly?: Whole chiles (fresh or dried depending on the variety), fresh garlic, unfiltered apple cider vinegar, sea salt, and the occasional citrus or spice that the recipe calls for. That's it. We don't use xanthan gum, sodium benzoate, or any preservative you'd need to look up.
How does the subscription work?: Each month we ship a curated 2–3 bottle pack based on what's in season and what we've been making. You'll get a note about what's in the box and why we picked it. You can skip any month or cancel anytime from your account — no call required, no penalty.
Can I choose which sauces I get?: On the monthly subscription, we curate for you. If you want to pick your own lineup, the Build-Your-Own Pack lets you choose any three bottles from the full collection. Either way you get the same sauces — it's just a matter of how much say you want.
Do you ship outside the US?: Not yet. We ship to all 48 contiguous states. Alaska, Hawaii, and international shipping are things we'd love to figure out — we just want to do it right, and we're not there yet.
How long do the sauces last?: Unopened, about 12 months in a cool, dry spot. Once you open a bottle, keep it in the fridge and use it within 60 days for best flavor. In our experience it's never lasted that long.
What if I get a bad batch?: It has not happened yet, but if something is wrong with your order we will fix it. Email us with your order number and a photo, and we'll send a replacement the same week. No runaround.