Sweet Carmen chiles from organic and local Wanderwood Farm are bright and fruity without any noticeable heat. We combined that with apple cider vinegar for a chile sauce with a balance of sweet, sour, and savory to bring fermented chile flavor to whatever you eat, even if you can't take the heat of most hot sauce. This is our gift to those of you who don't typically eat spicy. This is our Not Hot Hot Sauce.
More tropical chile sauce than ‘hot’ sauce, add Kindness to your seafood, vinaigrette, spring rolls, or anything where you crave a vinegary pop of sweet, heatless chiles.
Ingredient Focus: Sweet Carmen Organic Peppers
Carmen peppers are a type of corno di toro pepper, and are traditional in Italy. They’re large, tapering chiles, looking very similar to a red-ripened Anaheim pepper , but looks are deceiving! These peppers are very mild, with 0 - 500 Scoville units. Most people won’t notice any heat at all.
These are peppers that are used for frying and roasting in Italy. They’re also eaten fresh and raw, used in salads, pickled for winter storage, and cooked down into sauces. They offer a deeper and more complex flavor than red bell peppers. Corno di toro peppers are even sweet when they’re green, though they’re normally allowed to fully ripen before harvest.
The Sweet Carmen pepper is a great way to bring the complexity of chile flavor to the plates of those who don’t want chile heat.
HOSA Heat Scale: VERY MILD
Note: 8 oz screen printed bottles feature a removable flip-top cap; flip the cap open to use as a condiment, or unscrew it to pour it on as an ingredient!
32 oz screen printed bottles and 4 oz bottles are topped with a screw-on caps for easy pouring.
HOSA promise:
We will always choose to support sustainability and human rights whenever possible. Our peppers come from small, local farms and our salt is harvested from the deep waters surrounding the San Juan Islands (sanjuanislandseasalt.com). Our shipping materials are recycled from a local comic shop (shop.thecomicsplace.com). We naturally ferment our sauces for at least 6 weeks and every bottle of our small-batch products are filled, sealed, packed, and shipped by hand HOSA is made by and for people who care about the impact that even small purchases can have on their own community as well as the world at large.
