We will use this page to feature collectors and collections that we have come across. Tell us the latest news about your unique hot sauce collection.
Latest from Michael Fagan:
- Check out the label on Cyber Sauce. The spelling of Cayenne is Cayene and Allspice is All Spice.
- Spotted the "Tobasco" label error on the Eternal Flame 1996 Olympic Hot Sauce which sells for $15.95 to collectors.
His collection numbers about 1500 bottles and plans to add about 200 more this year.
Latest from John Hogate of Oak Lawn, IL:
John is working with Hot Sauce Harry's to collect one hot sauce from each of the 50 states and from foreign countries as well.
John Rowsey writes:
I have over 140 different hot sauces (Tabasco type bottles) from all over the world, including places like Jamaica, Mexico, Brazil, Virgin Islands, Barbados, Texas and Louisiana. I usually buy two bottles. I eat one and add the other to my collection. I have built shelves around the top of my kitchen where the sauces are proudly displayed. Needless to say, I am a hot sauce fanatic.
Michael R. Koppelmann of Magnolia, TX writes:
I collect hot sauces. Have about 200 different kinds. However, I eat them also. Lots of them. It is not a collection to look at. They are TO EAT! It goes without saying, they need constant replacement. I have my favorites, such as Jardines, Gibs and Daves, but I love every one of them. I bought a bottle of "Liquid Ax" Ate it in one sitting. And, no, I do not have a stomach. Had it removed so I could eat hot sauce. Cactus Jacks smoked jalapeno's are to die for.
Robert and Camille Graubman of Nesbit, MS write:
We have been collecting hot sauces for about 5 years, and today, we have 593. Tomorrow I will be going to New Orleans on a hot sauce hunt. I hope to bag at least 20. Our addiction led us to own a small hot sauce shop in a mall in Memphis over the Christmas 1997 season. We met alot of true Chileheads out there. We are interested in diversifying our collection into the Caribbean sauces. If anyone has any tips on collecting in the Caribbean, we'd like to hear from them.
Rick Leigh writes:
Just getting started, have about 175 bottles...friends know I collect and they bring back samples unique to their travels. I always come back with "local" samples from my travels as well. It's fun but so large, it can be confusing. Do I collect funny names, certain types, hot sauce only, or salsas, or basting sauces? NFL or sports teams or those with unique bottles/names, etc.? I have two cases, pepper "lights" and posters in my "Sauce Shrine" at home. I enjoy showing them off...people always ask if I ever open the bottles!
John Daniel Robinson writes:
I have always enjoyed hot and spicy foods. I actually started to collect hot sauces when my brother, who is a truck driver, brought me a bottle of "Mean Devil Woman". I started to accumulate all the different hot sauces that I could find. I still enjoy looking in stores for something that I don't have. I have started to concentrate on bottles that are more unique such as Porky's "Tennessee Red Lightnin'" or "Louisiana Crude" or that have something unique about them such as Captain Redbeards "Sharkbite" with the sharks tooth attached or even unique lables such as the "Ultimate Burn" with the scratch off bikini top. In all my collection has 117 different bottles in it at present.
Andreas Fraißl of Germany writes:
I just recognized some days ago that there is such a scene of hot sauce collecors in Amerika. Here in Germany it is very hard to find hot items, except, of course, tabasco products. Anyway I was a fan of the hot pepper sauces and brought them over to Germany from Mexico, Ecuado, Jamaika. Now I started to collect them professionally. I have one sauce from my vacation on Malta an island in the Mediteranian Sea. Itīs called Calypso Hot Sauce, from Foster Clark Products Ltd in Malta and is filled in a 88ml bottle.
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