Fire-kissed · Family-made · Every batch

Small-batch hot sauce made by one family, from scratch.

Real fire-kissed flavors, clean ingredients, and a story behind every bottle — shipped straight to your door.

Made in small batches • No artificial anything • Ships across the US

How it started

A grandmother's recipe. A family's obsession.

It started with a cast-iron skillet, a backyard garden, and my grandmother's handwritten recipe card — creased down the middle and stained with thirty years of cayenne and roasted tomato. She called it "the good stuff." We call it the beginning.

Every bottle of Ember Batch Co. sauce is made in small runs — never more than a few hundred at a time — using fresh peppers, real vinegar, and nothing you can't pronounce. No preservatives. No fillers. Just honest heat with honest flavor.

We're three people: a husband, a wife, and a kid who keeps stealing samples. We cook every batch ourselves, label every bottle by hand, and pack every order at our kitchen table. That's not going to change.

"She called it the good stuff. We're still trying to do it justice."

A joyful family moment as parents and children cook together in a cozy kitchen setting.

Making a batch on a Sunday afternoon — like always.

The Peppers

Cayenne, habanero, and roasted red Fresno — sourced from farms we've vetted by hand. Ripeness matters. We wait for it.

The Process

Slow-roasted in cast iron. Fermented when the recipe calls for it. Blended fresh, never heat-pasteurized into submission. The texture is real because it is real.

The Ingredients

Peppers, vinegar, garlic, salt. A few more depending on the sauce. Nothing else. Read any label — you'll recognize every single word.

The current lineup

Three sauces. One family. No shortcuts.

We don't make twelve varieties. We make three, and we make them right. Each bottle is numbered from the batch — when it's gone, we start over fresh.

Sunday

Morning

Best Seller

Sunday Morning

Mild

Bright Fresno pepper with roasted garlic and a hint of apple cider vinegar. The one that goes on everything — eggs, tacos, grilled chicken. Our most popular by a mile.

Ingredients: Peppers, apple cider vinegar, garlic, salt, roasted tomato.

$14 Add to cart Free shipping over $45

Back

Forty

Back Forty

Medium-Hot

Slow-roasted habanero with charred jalapeño and a touch of smoked paprika. Named after the back forty acres where my grandfather grew his first pepper garden. Complex and honest.

Ingredients: Habanero, jalapeño, apple cider vinegar, smoked paprika, garlic, salt.

$15 Add to cart Free shipping over $45

Ember's

Edge

Limited Batch

Ember's Edge

Hot

Fermented ghost pepper meets scorched cayenne. This one took us two years to balance — hot enough to mean it, flavorful enough to want more. Not for the timid. Very much for the curious.

Ingredients: Ghost pepper, cayenne, red wine vinegar, garlic, cumin, salt.

$16 Add to cart Free shipping over $45

Never run out

A new batch, every month, before the last bottle runs out.

Our subscription ships a curated 2-bottle selection of whatever we made that month — including flavors we only batch for subscribers. No filler. No warehouse inventory. Whatever we made most recently, in exactly the quantities we made it.

— Subscriber-exclusive batches, never available one-time
— 15% off every order — no promo codes, just the lower price
— Skip or cancel any month — no questions, no friction
— A handwritten note from us with every shipment

Start my subscription — $26/month

Cancel anytime. No commitment, no catch.

2 Bottles / Month

$26

vs. $30 buying separately

3 Bottles / Month

$38

vs. $45 buying separately

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What people say

Real kitchens. Real heat lovers.

I've tried every boutique hot sauce brand I can find, and nothing has the depth of flavor that Ember's Back Forty does. It actually tastes like someone cooked it, not manufactured it.

Marcus T.

Austin, TX · Back Forty

We gave Sunday Morning as a housewarming gift and the couple texted us three days later asking where to buy more. Now we order it every month.

Rachel and Jay K.

Portland, OR · Sunday Morning

Ember's Edge is the only hot sauce I've ever had that's genuinely hot AND genuinely delicious. You don't sacrifice flavor for heat. That's rare.

Derek O.

Chicago, IL · Ember's Edge

Over 1,200 orders shipped to heat lovers across the US since 2021. Every one packed by hand at our kitchen table.

A rustic wooden box filled with fresh oranges and decorative bottles, wrapped in a patterned cloth.

We pack every gift box by hand. It shows.

Give a real gift

For the person who already has everything — except great hot sauce.

Our gift bundles make excellent Father's Day, holiday, and housewarming gifts. Every bundle ships in a kraft box with a handwritten card. No corporate packing peanuts. No tissue paper filler. Just the sauces, honestly presented.

The Starter

$32

Two bottles of your choice — a great introduction to what we do. Ships with a card you write at checkout.

The Full Set

$48

All three current sauces. The complete family lineup, from mild Sunday Morning to Ember's Edge. Our most-given gift.

The Subscription Gift

$60

Three months of our subscription, prepaid — they get a new selection each month. This one really sticks with people.

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Good questions

Everything you actually want to know.

How spicy are your sauces, really?

Sunday Morning is genuinely mild — great for people who want flavor without heat. Back Forty has real warmth, the kind that builds rather than burns. Ember's Edge is legitimately hot: we're talking visible heat on the first taste. We use the Scoville scale as a guide but describe flavor first, always.

What are the ingredients — no really, all of them?

Every label lists every ingredient, full stop. No 'natural flavors,' no 'spice blend' catch-alls. Sunday Morning: Fresno peppers, apple cider vinegar, garlic, salt, roasted tomato. Back Forty: habanero, jalapeño, apple cider vinegar, smoked paprika, garlic, salt. Ember's Edge: ghost pepper, cayenne, red wine vinegar, garlic, cumin, salt. That's it.

How long does a bottle keep?

Unopened, our sauces keep for 12 months in a cool pantry. Once opened, refrigerate and use within 3–4 months. The acidity from real vinegar is the preservative — no artificial anything is doing that job for us.

Can I cancel or skip my subscription?

Yes, anytime. Log into your account, hit 'Manage subscription,' and skip or cancel — no confirmation emails asking if you're sure, no retention offers. We'd rather you come back when you're ready than feel trapped.

Do you ship outside the US?

Not yet. We ship everywhere in the continental US, plus Hawaii and Alaska. International shipping is something we'd like to offer but the logistics for food products are complicated — we're working on it.

Are your sauces gluten-free and vegan?

Yes and yes. All three sauces contain no gluten-containing ingredients and no animal products. We make them in a home kitchen that also handles wheat and dairy, so we can't call them certified allergen-free — but the sauces themselves contain none of those things.

Made with care. Shipped with pride.

Still reading? You already know you want to try it.

Every bottle leaves our kitchen with our name on it — literally. We're not going to put something in a bottle that we wouldn't put on our own table. Order once and see what that means.

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