Ernie and Maria started a food truck business in 2014 selling jerk chicken, and they created this hot sauce to cater for the growing number of customers who wanted their jerk chicken experience to be a bit more on the spicy side! Sparky's Fiyahcracker was born, a Caribbean, fruity, pepper bomb! This, hands down, is the best example I've seen of the true fruitiness and versatility of the habanero, the chilli alone accounts for the sauce’s fruitiness and blended with the molasses, it almost has you believing that there are dates in the sauce. The molasses marries perfectly with the chilli to del ..read more

This is a brand-new hot sauce from Jibba's and you and your fellow ChilliBOM members are the first people in the world to try it! Alex is a chef based in Busselton WA and started making hot sauces during lockdown with a Nutri Bullet. This latest delicious beauty is a nice creamy hot sauce with the mouth-watering aromas of chilli, onion and ginger. The deliciousness starts with the chilli flavour from the jalapeño and distinctive onion sweetness, this is followed by the fresh earthiness of ginger and a tangy lime juice finish. The jalapeño heat is boosted by the ginger that also adds that peppe ..read more

Chris and Kosta specialise in fermentation, as their brand name kind of gives it away, with a very keen interest in fermented chillies and this is the first hot sauce that they ever launched and it epitomises, for me, the fermented hot sauce flavour profile, it just "dances" in your mouth, and takes full advantage of the flavour from the fermentation process. The habanero and cayenne chillies are mashed, blended with garlic, and then fermented for a minimum of four weeks. This ferment has a tangy slightly sour profile that by itself full of flavour, but it's then mixed with apple cider vinegar ..read more

In the realm of culinary arts, the Scoville scale stands as a quintessential measure of spice intensity, guiding chefs and enthusiasts through the fiery landscape of peppers and chilli peppers. But behind this seemingly simple scale lies a fascinating journey of scientific inquiry, innovation, and culinary curiosity. Let's delve into the origins of the Scoville scale, its creator, and the remarkable evolution it has undergone to become the cornerstone of spice measurement in the modern age. The year was 1912 when a pharmacist by the name of Wilbur Scoville revolutionised the way we perceive he ..read more

The co-creator of Hot Toddy hot sauces, Sarah Todd, was a runner-up on MasterChef Australia and she has teamed up with her brother Matt to create a range of recently launched hot sauces, all inspired from different spices from around the world! This little number is inspired by India, the birthplace of the ghost chilli, but it just reminds me of summer in a bottle, with the aroma of pineapple there as soon as you crack it open. The pineapple is paired deliciously with the peppery finish of the ghost chilli to provide an amazing tropical flavour with bite! The heat from the ghost peppers sits i ..read more

Andy has taken his award-winning smoked sauce to the next level with the addition of aged Carolina Reapers. The enticing rich aromas of the wood smoked chilli is the first thing to hit your senses making you almost think you're diving into a BBQ sauce. There is an amazing balance of sweet, sour, smoky and peppery spice that dances across your tongue before the Carolina Reaper asserts itself. The Carolina Reaper also provides some fruitiness alongside its distinctive heat and cayenne delivers a nice peppery finish. The smokiness of this sauce makes it great for BBQ meats, especially to finish o ..read more

A distinctive Australian twist on a classic Mexican salsa verde. Jalapeño is the main ingredient in this sauce and it brings that earthy capsicum flavour as well as a mild peppery burn right through your mouth. This is balanced out by the Tomatillo which provides some tartness as well as giving the sauce its thicker consistency. All rounded out with the zestiness of lime, freshness of coriander, garlic and a twist of cumin. The tomatillo also makes this hot sauce perfect to use as a marinade, especially for white meat and fish. A great addition to tacos, burritos, enchiladas, ceviche & sal ..read more

THE CELEBRITY CHEF EDITION Well the title kind of gives it away but this quarter our all-Australian line-up of hot sauces features a sauce from an Australian Celebrity Chef! Hot Toddy is a newly launched brand from Brisbane, and has been co-created by celebrity chef and MasterChef Australia runner-up, Sarah Todd. The featured sauce is a tropical ghost chilli wonder! Our next 2 sauces are from Red Box alumnus: A1 Hot Sauces have recently been reborn as Andeez Hot Sauces and the creator, Andy (if that wasn’t obvious) has developed a brand new super spicy sriracha to add to his line-up! The final ..read more

SEVEN YEAR ITCH EDITION We can't believe its been 7 years since we started our ChilliBOM journey. Some of you have been with us from the very beginning and, for some of you this is your very first box, but however long you've been part of the ChilliBOM family we can't thank you enough. This is box number 29 so before today we have featured 84 unique hot sauces over the last seven years and for this special birthday edition, we wanted to come back to some of ours and your favourites, it was definitely a hard choice...I mean its like being asked who is your favourite child! Some of the sauces we ..read more

THE GOOD VIBRATIONS EDITION Sending out positive energy into the universe this quarter and introducing two new Australian sauce makers to the ChilliBOM family. The first is our neighbours at Burleigh Chilli Co with a very laid back, but fresh tasting hot sauce inspired by the sun, surf, waves and culture of Burleigh! The second is Derek's Hot Sauce from Melbourne, a very modern style of hot sauce that takes advantage of the citrus flavour and unique numbing effect of Sichuan Pepper! And just to keep the good vibrations coming, and also to keep things interesting, the third sauce is the complet ..read more