New Year’s Resolutions

After all of the turkey and Cranky Cranny has been been ingested, you know what’s next. New Year’s Resolutions lists are everywhere this time of year, leaving people to find a few things to work on for next year. However, the problem with most New Year’s Resolutions is that they are boring! Why don’t you make sure you spice up the next 365 days and commit to a few of these New Year’s Resolutions for Hot Sauce lovers.

Introduce someone new to craft hot sauce

Exploring new hot sauces is so much fun to do with friends. Whether it’s a taco Tuesday ritual where you bring over different hot sauces to try or a camping trip where everyone brings a hot sauce, it’s a fun way to explore new flavours.

Are your friends hot sauce haters or wimps? Good thing we already wrote a blog post on Heat Freak From A Wimp – 3 Easy Steps!

Go to a hot sauce festival

Hot Sauce festivals are a blast. It’s a great opportunity to try so many different types of hot sauces, meet the makers behind the sauces, listen to some music, and definitely bring some sauces back for your fridge. Take a look at our events calendar to see if there is a hot sauce event near you!

Try a new hot sauce each month

You already might have a favourite type of hot sauce, but it is important to try new sauces and new flavours. Look at our Craft Hot Sauce Stories and make sure you try a new one each month. We also have a Need the Heat Gift Card for presents.

Make your own homemade hot sauce

There are many good resources online to give you step-by-step instructions on how to make your own sauce. If you are interested in a high-level overview before you dig into the specific steps, read this post Easy 6 Ingredient Habanero Sauce Recipe or check out our recipe section.

Give hot sauce as a present to a friend or work colleague

I was recently talking to a hobbyist hot sauce maker who made 70 bottles of a bhut jolokia/habanero sauce with about a dozen other ingredients. He gave about 20 bottles away to work colleagues over the holidays.

When deciding who to give them to and who would appreciate the special gift, he guessed with 100% accuracy who would want it and who wouldn’t be based on their personality.

According to his experience, people that are friendly, outgoing, adventurous and like good food are way more likely to like hot sauce.

Look up your nearest small-batch hot sauce company and find them at the local farmers’ market

It’s important to support local artisans, and small-batch hot sauce makers want to meet their local supporters. Simply do a Google search of your location + hot sauce company, and you are bound to find a company close to you. Many of these companies go to local farmer markets, and they are always grateful to talk to you and teach you about their sauces.

Advocate for Craft Hot Sauce

Hot Sauce is now a billion-dollar industry, and each year small-batch hot sauce companies are taking a share away from the larger companies. Craft Hot Sauce companies are taking away market share because they taste better and are healthier. Talk about craft hot sauce to your friends and support small-batch companies to accelerate the hot sauce revolution.

Host a hot sauce tasting

Hot Sauce tastings are a fun way to gather with some friends and chileheads and expand your hot sauce pallet. There are a few ways you can organize a hot sauce tasting, but Serious Eats has a good article on how to throw a hot sauce tasting.

Bring craft hot sauce to a dinner party

Often when I bring a specialty craft hot sauce to a dinner party they say it’s the best hot sauce they’ve ever had. It can also add a little more to the meal if the person cooking is a bit bland. Inevitably a conversation will help accelerate the craft house sauce movement!

Hope you can pick a few hot sauce resolutions for this year. If you have any additional Need the Heat New Year’s Resolutions, comment below and we can add them!