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Prescribed Burn Sauces — Hot Sauce in Greater Sacramento, CA

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Prescribed Burn Sauces is a small-batch hot sauce brand based in Granite Bay, California. Its lineup includes 10 handcrafted sauces ranging from mild mustard BBQ to ghost pepper heat. Ghost Torched is the hottest at 11/11 on the burn scale, while Drip Torch SC sits at 2/11. Its habanero bottle, Burn Boss, is built on citrus. Its sauces ship nationwide across the country. Batch sizes stay small, with some runs under 200 bottles.

  • The brand describes itself as a small-batch hot sauce brand based in Granite Bay, California.
  • The lineup includes 10 handcrafted sauces ranging from mild mustard BBQ to ghost pepper heat.
  • Nationwide shipping is offered alongside that lineup of sauces.
  • Ten small-batch sauces are ranked on a burn scale of 1-11.
  • Ghost Torched is the hottest sauce in the lineup at 11/11 on the burn scale.
  • Drip Torch SC is the mildest sauce at 2/11 on the burn scale.
  • That scale runs from 1 up to 11 across ten sauces.
  • One sauce is built with ghost pepper and smoked reaper mash, rehydrated guajillo and pasilla chili, fire roasted onion and garlic.
  • Burn Boss is pure habanero with citrus.
  • In 2020 that excess turned into hot sauce with a cast-iron pot, apple cider vinegar from the pantry and garlic from the garden.
  • That manufacturing arm is built to support other brands.
  • The team set up its first table at the local farmers market and kept coming back.
  • The brand earned 2nd Place in the International Flavor Award.
  • Some runs stay under 200 bottles, which the brand frames as part of the point.
  • The peppers are NorCal-grown whenever possible, with real relationships with the farms that grow them.
  • Those farm relationships are part of how the peppers are sourced.
  • Every batch is hand-filled, hand-labeled and tasted before it ships.
  • Hand-filling and hand-labeling are part of every batch.
  • The team also launched NorCal Sauce Worx as the manufacturing arm that supports other brands.
  • The brand was featured on Fox40 Sacramento's Studio 40 segment, bringing it to Northern California viewers.
  • The site lists small-batch, NorCal grown, no artificial additives and fresh chiles only.
  • Fresh chiles only is part of that same style statement.

FAQ

What should I order at Prescribed Burn Sauces?

The documented signature sauce is Burn Boss, habanero with citrus.

What peppers does Prescribed Burn Sauces use?

One sauce is built with ghost pepper and smoked reaper mash, rehydrated guajillo and pasilla chili, fire roasted onion and garlic.

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