The problem was, Too many hot sauces forced you to choose between great flavor without enough kick and intense heat that overwhelmed everything else. What I wanted was something better—something different: a hot sauce that delivered bold, enjoyable flavor first, with just the right amount of heat to bring it to life.
That idea took shape during COVID, when I suddenly found myself spending much more time at home. One of the things I enjoyed was trying different brands and varieties of hot sauce.
The more sauces I tried, the more I thought about what I liked—and what I would change. I might love the heat of one sauce but prefer the flavor of another. Sometimes, a sauce was so hot that the heat completely took over, making it difficult to enjoy the flavor of the food. Other times, the flavor was great but missing that little extra kick.
That’s when I started thinking:
Why not create hot sauces built around the flavors I actually like—something different, something new?
So that’s what I started doing.
At first, it wasn’t about starting a business. It was about creating my own flavored sauces—something I genuinely enjoyed eating. I wanted to take the things we liked about different sauces and turn them into flavors that were uniquely ours.
From the beginning, I had one rule:
Flavor comes first.
Anybody can make something hot. I wanted to make a sauce you actually wanted to put on your food.
After doing some research, I started sharing the different sauces I created with family, friends, and coworkers.
They liked them.
But what really got my attention was when they started asking for more.
That’s when I thought, maybe I’ve got something here.
One flavor led to another. Mango Habanero, Pineapple Habanero, Red Garlic, Cleopatra’s Rum, Mummy’s Ghost, Carolina Reaper, Pharaoh’s Pepper, King Tut’s Honey Mustard, and others became part of the Total Hot Sauce family.
As the sauces developed, so did the personality of the brand.
The Egyptian-inspired names and imagery gave Total Hot Sauce its own identity. Each sauce could have its own personality, level of heat, and story—but they would all share the same philosophy:
Great flavor first. Heat second.
What started in my home during COVID as something fun to experiment with slowly turned into something I never expected: a business.
Today, when someone stops at our table, picks up a bottle, and tries Total Hot Sauce for the first time, they’re experiencing something that began with a very simple idea:
Create the kind of hot sauce we would want to eat ourselves.
COVID may have been where the story started, but it’s definitely not where the story ends.
We’re still creating.
We’re still growing.
And we’re still bringing the heat.
TOTAL HOT SAUCE
Flavor First. Heat Follows.
Born during COVID. Inspired by flavor. Built to be different.
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