Best Hot Sauce Gift Sets for 2022
Some people like to heat things up in the kitchen. Whether they're avowed chile heads with a large hot sauce collection or just starting to dabble with heat, a hot sauce variety pack is as useful as it is delicious. You don't need to know their preferred sauce brands if you stick with these highly rated sauce gift sets.
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$28 from Amazon
Alternative music fans will enjoy this set of four hot sauces from the lead singer of The Offspring. It comes with original red, green habanero, spicy yellow, and super hot varieties, all in 5-ounce bottles.
$25 from Amazon
Yellowbird sauces are described as a condiment, and their thickness and squeeze bottles back that up. They're full of bright flavors from ingredients like tangerine, cucumber, and carrot.
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$34 from Amazon
Seven bottles of sauce will keep your giftee happy for a while with this set, cleverly packaged to look like TNT. Smoky bourbon, whiskey habanero, and ghost pepper are some of the flavors.
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$20 from PuckerButt
The man behind PuckerButt also created the Carolina Reaper pepper, and you can try it in this pack of three of their most popular sauces. It includes Smokin' Racha, Bacon Me Crazy with Carolina Reaper, and Voodoo Prince Death Mamba.
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$21 from Amazon
Marie Sharp's Belizean Heat won our hot sauce taste test with its bright, fresh flavor and fruity habanero heat. Get it in this variety pack, along with five other varieties from the popular brand.
$26 from Amazon
This set is not just hot sauces — it's an experience. Each of the 12 sauces includes steps up in heat, so your giftee can gather his or her friends and see who can go the furthest without sweating or throwing in the towel.
$11 and up from Amazon
Melinda's sauces are high on flavor but relatively mild on heat, so this is a great set to get for a hot sauce beginner. They're habanero-based and include mango, garlic, and extra hot varieties.
$100 from Man Crates
What do you get for the chile head who has everything already? A kit to make their own sauce. This one comes with three types of extremely hot pepper puree, a small chopper, bottles, mini funnel, gloves, and recipe book.
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$30 from Amazon
El Yucateco tied for runner-up in our hot sauce taste test, and it's great for topping any Mexican or Caribbean food. The variety pack has six sauces, all habanero-based, including the well-regarded extra hot Kutbil-ik.
$18 from Amazon
Fans of Frank's RedHot will burn through these dry seasonings. Garlic and cayenne are the main flavors, with buttermilk and herbs in the RedHot Buffalo Ranch. Sprinkle them on fries, popcorn, baked potatoes, or anything else you can get your hands on.
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$120 from Fuego Box
This is the challenge box for hot sauce connoisseurs. It includes full-size bottles of 11 sauces from various makers, including PexPeppers Painapple and PuckerButt Ignition Point as the hottest.
$32 from Heatonist
If your giftee is a woman, she might appreciate this hot sauce three-pack with brands made by women in a male-dominated market. It includes Hot n Saucy, Garlic N Peperoncini; Butterfly Bakery of Vermont, Rum Barrel Fermented Smoked Jalapeno; and Queen Majesty, Scotch Bonnet Ginger.
$28 from Amazon
Secret Aardvark has a devoted following, and their habanero hot sauce is complex and salsa-like. The other sauces in this sampler include a green habanero sauce, a Chinese-influenced garlic and black bean sauce, and a Jamaican marinade.
$33 from Heatonist
Keith's sauces have a lot of flavor and are designed for specific foods, so they're great for beginners. You'll get a sauce based on buffalo and ranch flavors for chicken, a mustardy one for burgers, and a complex taco sauce with lime, cumin, and raisins. And if your giftee's name is Keith? Even better.
$62 from Amazon
TRUFF hot sauce, made with truffles, has been all the rage lately. This set of three bottles is packaged in a sleek box that makes a statement gift.
$40 from Tabasco
Tabasco has a 150-year history, so it's got a lot of fans. You get seven bottles of various varieties in this pack, including the Original Red Sauce and more unique flavors like Sweet & Spicy Sauce.
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$26 from Amazon
Does your chile head also like beer? Chances are they might not have these beer-infused sauces yet. These are pretty mild and come in sriracha, garlic serrano, and roasted chipotle flavors.
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$36 from Amazon
Inspired by Venezuelan guasacaca, Kumana hot sauce is made with avocados, herbs, bell peppers, and fruit for a complex flavor. This three-pack includes original, mango, and extra hot varieties, and is great on any Latin American food.
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$70 from Man Crates
Sriracha has a cult following, and this crate of hot goodies would be perfect for a devotee. It includes classic sriracha with a spray bottle nozzle, Korean gochujang sriracha, and sriracha-flavored snacks like beef jerky.
$28 from Amazon
Nando's is an international restaurant chain known for its chicken and peri-peri hot sauces full of citrus and spices. Your giftee can dip chicken into these medium, garlic, hot, and XX hot versions.
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$42 from Heatonist
The ever-popular YouTube series "Hot Ones" features a celebrity guest interview while they eat increasingly hot sauces. The sauces used on the show are available in three-packs so your giftee can recreate the pain at home. This pack, full of reaper and ghost peppers, includes some of the hottest sauces from season 16.
$25 from Amazon
The Adult Swim show "Rick and Morty" has a dedicated fan base, and they would no doubt love this six-bottle show-themed hot sauce challenge set.
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$50 from Fuego Box
The line between hot sauce and barbecue sauce can be blurry, and that's true for this hot barbecue sauce set. It includes a sweet and hot apple barbecue, chipotle hot sauce, wing sauce, and some dry rubs and seasonings.
$90 from Broquet
A chile head who wants to analyze and catalog their sauces would love this crate, which comes with a notebook for all their tasting notes. They'll also get six bottles of hot sauce that'll make them sweat, all in wooden crate packaging.
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