Hawt Heads Is Building a Pepper Grower and Hot Sauce Maker Directory

The spicy food world does not start with challenges, restaurants, or viral videos.

It starts with peppers.

And somewhere between the farm and the table are the people turning those peppers into incredible hot sauces.

Hawt Heads wants to help people find both.

We are building a growing directory at HawtHeads.com dedicated to pepper growers and hot sauce makers from around the United States and eventually around the world.

Our goal is not to decide who makes the hottest pepper or the best sauce. We want to create a useful resource where spicy food fans, restaurants, retailers, creators, and other members of the spicy community can discover the people producing the heat.

Pepper Growers

We want to hear from commercial farms, small farms, backyard growers, pepper breeders, seed producers, and anyone growing something interesting.

Jalapeños. Habaneros. Ghost peppers. Carolina Reapers. Scorpions. Rare cultivars. Experimental crosses. Regional varieties. Peppers we have never heard of.

If you grow them, we want to know about them.

For the directory, send us:

  1. Your name or farm name
  2. Your location
  3. The peppers you grow
  4. Where people can buy them
  5. Your website and social accounts
  6. Anything unusual or interesting about your operation
  7. Photos we can use with your permission

Hot Sauce Makers

We also want the people taking those peppers and turning them into something worth putting on food.

Hawt Heads wants to feature everyone from tiny small batch sauce makers to established brands.

Heat matters. Flavor matters more.

Fermented sauces. Fruit sauces. Garlic bombs. Smoky sauces. Reaper sauces. Ghost pepper sauces. Strange combinations that somehow work. Family recipes that have survived generations.

We want all of it.

Hot sauce makers can send us:

  1. Your company name
  2. Your location
  3. Your website and social accounts
  4. Where people can buy your sauces
  5. Your current sauces
  6. The peppers used in each sauce
  7. Your hottest sauce
  8. Your personal favorite
  9. A little about your story
  10. Photos we can use with your permission

There Is No Fee

This is not a pay to play directory.

There is no fee to be included.

Hawt Heads exists because we want the spicy food world to get bigger. More growers. More sauce makers. More restaurants serving legitimate heat. More challenges. More festivals. More creators. More people discovering that spicy food can be about incredible flavor rather than simply surviving something painful.

We have said it from the beginning: grow the culture, not just the brand.

That means helping people discover the businesses and individuals who make this community possible. 

Want to Be Included?

Send your information to:

hawtheadsllc(at)gmail.com

Please put Pepper Grower Directory or Hot Sauce Directory in the subject line so we know where you belong.

We will continue adding growers and sauce makers as we find them, so if you know someone who belongs in the directory, send this page their way.

The world is getting spicier.

We intend to help.

Spice is Life.


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