Facts

How is the heat level of a hot sauce determined?

We often receive questions about the Scoville Heat Units of a particular sauce. Usually, we have to answer: we don’t know, because the maker of this hot sauce hasn’t officially tested it in a lab. Additionally, we have a few other reasons why we rarely mention the Scoville score of a sauce. But how do […]

Where do the first chili peppers come from?

We talk about hot sauce pretty much non-stop (just ask our other halves), but we can’t really talk about it without talking about peppers. The stars of the sauce show. The main cause of the hotness in hot sauces. A hot sauce simply cannot exist without peppers. But where do they come from? When were […]

What is hot sauce?

You could say that our mission is to get more people to try hot sauce. We are convinced that there is a suitable hot sauce for everyone and every recipe, but before you check our range of hot sauces, it might be useful to first explain what we think hot sauce is. Explained very simply: […]

Hot sauce history: the ancient history of that spicy goodness

Hot sauce is getting hotter and hotter. And I don’t mean in terms of actual heat, but in terms of popularity. Also here in Europe. Despite that, it is still in its infancy and most people are not yet very familiar with hot sauce. That’s why we would like to educate people in this area. […]

Drinking water after spicy food: do it or not?

You’re enjoying a plate full of spicy food, your mouth is on fire and your first instinct is to reach for a glass of water. But is that a good idea? Let’s dive deeper into this pressing issue. Why you reach for water when your mouth is on fire It’s a natural reaction: your mouth […]

Why does spicy food make you cry?

Spicy food: you either love it or hate it. Guess which side we’re on. But even the biggest spice lords and ladies can’t deny that their eyes sometimes start to water after a bite of a fiery sauce. What exactly is happening in your body that causes this reaction? Let’s take a closer look at […]

What is the difference between sambal and hot sauce?

We have been running a hot sauce company for about 6.5 years, but when we were growing up, our mother didn’t serve us spicy food very often. If there was something spicy on the table, it was often a jar of sambal (from the supermarket) when she had made nasi goreng. For many Dutch people, […]

Why can some people handle spicy food better than others?

While one person may start to sweat a from a bit too much black pepper in a dish, another can easily eat one of the hottest peppers in the world in its entirety. The difference in heat tolerance can apparently be enormous, but why can one person handle spicy food and the other not? It […]

Heatsupply wrapped 2023: your favourite hot sauces and more!

The end of the year is now in sight and that means that list time has already arrived for a while.We participate in this with great pleasure, because looking back on the year and all the wonderful things that have happened is simply important. What were the most popular hot sauces on Heatsupply? How many […]

Why does spicy food give you a runny nose?

It has probably happened to you; after eating spicy food you were sniffling a lot. A runny nose can be a logical consequence of (slightly too) spicy food. But how is that possible? You don’t put the food up your nose and yet it seems as if that hot sauce has broken open a dam […]

Official: “Pepper X” is the new hottest pepper in the world

It took years, but since yesterday (16-10-2023) the Carolina Reaper has been replaced by the Pepper X as the hottest pepper in the world. The creator of this facemelting hot pepper, Ed Currie, who is also the famous guy behind the Carolina Reaper pepper, worked on the Pepper X for no less than 10 years. […]

The full list of Hot Ones sauces from all seasons of the show

Hot Ones. It’s the show with hot questions and even hotter wings, but it’s also the show that started it all for Heatsupply. It gave us the idea to sell the hot sauces we saw on the show, but couldn’t find anywhere in Europe. By now we have a lot of (ex) Hot Ones sauces […]

Time lapse of a Carolina seed to the (former) hottest pepper in the world

We wouldn’t blame you if you’ve always thought that extremely hot peppers like the Carolina Reaper come straight from hell, because the intense heat that this (former) hottest pepper in the world produces doesn’t seem to come from this Earth. Yet they are, and like so many other vegetables, they grow from a seed. In […]

Heatsupply’s hottest of 2022: your favourite hot sauces & more!

As we are working towards Chrismas and the countdown to 2023 has almost started already, we are looking back at 2022. We’ll do that with a few spicy end-of-year lists, because those are just as much part of the December months as Christmas itself. So what were the most popular hot sauces on Heatsupply? Which […]

Awarding Heatsupply points stops at July 1st

As we all notice, we are dealing with sky-high inflation all over the world, making just about everything much more expensive. We also notice that and especially since we import a lot of products from America, the hot sauces have become a lot more expensive to buy. In addition to inflation, this is also due […]

“What is the hottest sauce you have?”

We regularly get the question “What is the hottest sauce you have?”. From this we conclude that you are either a very experienced chili head and only want to eat the hottest sauces, or that you just want to experience what it is like to go completely broke or that you want to take revenge […]

These are the 5 most popular peppers in hot sauces

Without peppers there is no hot sauce, so it’s a good thing that there are an incredible number of different peppers. They differ not only in heat, but also in taste. With so much choice, it can be quite difficult to determine the perfect pepper to go with the rest of the ingredients in a […]

Where do the names of the most famous peppers come from?

Just like how the makers of hot sauces think of the craziest names for their sauces, the peppers themselves have some pretty special names as well. Sometimes they are just straight up frightning, like the Ghost Pepper, Trinidad Scorpion and Carolina Reaper. Where do those names come from? We have searched for the meanings behind […]