The Creator Of The World's Hottest Peppers Is Fueling A Hot Sauce Revolution | Big Business
Published at : 18 Dec 2025
The craft hot sauce business is exploding in the US, with hundreds of small producers challenging centuries old brands with creative flavors and newly engineered, extra-hot peppers.
Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:32 - Smokin’ Ed Currie’s pepper farms 05:21 - PuckerButt factory 09:50 - NYC Hot Sauce Expo 15:35 - Hell’s Kitchen Hot Sauce 21:22 - Tabasco and the history of hot sauce 28:19 - Frank’s RedHot 34:25 - How hot sauce started trending 35:52 - EZ Paella & Tapas 37:45 - Hot Ones and Heatonist 42:21 - How Smokin’ Ed found peppers 44:06 - End credits ------------------------------------------------------ #hotsauce #pepper #businessinsider #bigbusiness