Hot Sauce Explorer

Know your city's heat.

City hot sauce guides built sauce by sauce from each maker's own published information — pepper base, heat level, bottle price, where to buy it locally. No review scraping, no invented tasting notes.

Guides live now

  • Editorial photo: ripe orange habanero peppers on a wooden board
    Habanero
  • Editorial photo: glass fermentation jar with sliced peppers and brine
    Fermentation
  • Editorial photo: three unlabeled glass hot sauce bottles on a shelf
    Small batch

The Pepper Index

Weekly tracked retail prices for fresh jalapeño, serrano, and habanero peppers from published grocery sources. Fixed basket, public methodology, no smoothing.

How the index will work →