Hot Pepper Dudes

July 06

Preparing your Recipe
So you make this great product that everyone likes, but is your recipe something that a bottler (co-packer) can work with to re-create your unique product?  For me, the answer was no at first, and I had to work on it for a few weeks to get it in a condition that they could use [...]

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March 18

Introduction to Starting Your Own Hot Sauce Company
I didn’t know anything about how to start a hot sauce company a little over a year ago.  What I did know was creating tasty sauces that everyone seemed to enjoy, so I figured I’d look into getting the product professionally bottled.  While searching for tips online about how to do this, I couldn’t find any [...]

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February 18

Hot Pepper Dudes, LLC Wins 2011 Fiery Food Challenge!
  Hot Pepper Dudes, LLC has been awarded the Golden Chile for Hot Sauce – Pepper Blend in the 2011 Fiery Food Challenge for Fire Out the Hole!  Additionally, the company takes third place for Barbeque Sauce – Mustard Base Ghost of Carolina! Tampa, FL - 2/5/11  On January 28, 2011, the most prestigious awards in the spicy food industry were [...]

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About Us
We formed Hot Pepper Dudes, LLC as a company in 2010 but the ideas and experimentation started more than a decade earlier.  I (Chris Billet) have been experimenting with growing hot peppers, making hot sauces, and other methodes of preserving peppers since 1999.  It really started as a hobby since I couldn’t find anything other [...]

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