Everyone knows someone who loves to heat things up so, along with some popular picks from our stash, here are our top 10 holiday gift ideas for the hot sauce lover in your life!
Our Top TorchBearer Sauce Picks for the 2025 Season
Since you're already here, chances are you've got your eye on some hot sauces for that guy or gal that loves to cook or just doctor up something already in front of them. Let us guide you a bit and point out some of our most popular items this year.
Flavor-Packed Variety Packs
1. The 12 Days of Hot Sauce Calendar
For those who love surprises and all things saucy, we put this fun advent-style box together complete with 12 different mini bottles of sauce ranging from our mildest garlic sauces and BBQs to some of the hottest sauces we make! It's 12 days of fun opening the door, seeing what you got, and wondering if it might kill you or not. True joy awaits!
Check out The 12 Days of Hot Sauce Calendar→
2. Mini 8-Pack & 3-Pack
In the same vein as the calendar but more straightforward, you can wrap up one of our mini packs and stuff it in a stocking or break it out at a holiday meal to really make a statement. We even make a mini pack featuring Shinedown! There's nothing that brings a gathering together like daring each other to try a little Zombie Apocalypse on the mashed potatoes.
Check out our mini 8-pack and 3-pack→
Award-Winning Best Sellers
We have so many bottles to choose from, it can be hard to narrow it down, but here are three sauces highly recommended by all.
3. Garlic Reaper
First, you can never overlook our most popular sauce of all time: Garlic Reaper. While it is incredibly hot, most people sweat and cry through it because it's just so damn good!
4. Habanero Evil
Second and much milder is our Habanero Evil. It's the perfect balance of spicy and tangy with a great onion, garlic, and black pepper taste that allows it to go on almost anything.
5. Carolina-Style BBQ
Finally, our very mild "mop sauce" is Carolina-Style BBQ. In a crockpot it rocks, on the grill it kills, and even on a slice of pizza it always reigns supreme. They can marinate anything too, if that's their poison, so don't be surprised when they use it so fast, next year they ask for a case!
Other Great Ideas for Anyone Spicy
Sure, we love it when you buy our stuff. It keeps the lights on and let's us continue to live lives of luxury and excess (not really, but we do like being able to pay our heating bills in the winter!). But we also know there's really fun stuff out there that we don't sell but should still be considered for the heat lovers in your life.
6. Hot Sauce Holsters
This is just plain fun and makes a real statement. The giftee will never be without their favorite hot sauce again with these real leather holsters stamped with an image of your choosing. They can even work with you to do a custom stamp, if you feel so inclined. Open carry is encouraged with these!
Check out Hot Sauces Holsters→
7. Mosh Potatoes Cookbook
Have you ever been to any of Steve Seabury's Hot Sauce Expos? We have a stand at the New York event every year and always have a great time watching the contests and meeting tons of hot sauce fanatics. Steve runs these and is an excellent guy! He also wrote a fun cookbook with killer recipes and fun stories. We definitely can't say enough good things about him and his book so don't overlook this if you are trying to find something truly special this year.
Check out the Mosh Potatoes cookbook→
8. Hot Pepper Socks That Help
What's better than getting some fun hot pepper socks? Knowing that your money goes to help the less fortunate! Conscious step has all kinds of patterns and styles of socks and every pair you buy puts money towards tons of great things like food for people who need it, childhood cancer study, women empowerment, and many more. Are you a bad enough dude to grab a few pairs this year?
Check out conscious step's hot pepper socks→
9. Try My Nuts' Snacks and Spicy Stuff
We'll just go ahead and link you right to the spicy nuts section of this site but, damn, you can find every kind of snacking fun here if you poke around enough. Your friend or family member will be crying over their wild-level Carolina reaper peanuts, both because of the heat and also because they just love you so much. We eventually want to try everything but it's going to take a long, long time!
Check out Try My Nuts' spicy stuff→
10. Hot Pepper Seeds from Ohio Peppers
Here's something for the green thumbs in your life. The true gift that keeps on giving is a well-maintained pepper plant. There are so many varieties here that it will blow your mind, and Ohio Peppers is one of the highest rated and most reliable.
If you aren't sure what the person you're buying for likes, you can sneak a peak at the ingredients list on their favorite hot sauces, or just grab some tried-and-true favorites like jalapeno, habanero, ghost, reaper, etc. Really, though, if someone who loves hot sauce and gardening gets a bunch of seeds as a gift, they will be happy no matter what the pepper is.
Check out Ohio Peppers' hot pepper seeds→
The End?
Of course not! Hot sauce, exciting foods, and items celebrating the spicy lifestyle are everywhere so don't feel like you can't think outside the box. The sauces and items in this list take the cake every time and we wanted to put them out there. We hope this helps a few of you find a unique way to show your appreciation for those you love who love to burn!
Take it easy this holiday season and stay spicy, everyone!
