About Morbid Sauce

A chili pepper bursting with spicy seeds for true heat in Morbid Sauce hot sauces

The Search for a Flavorful Hot Sauce

Morbid Sauce was inspired by the search for a bold, flavorful hot sauce that is not too vinegary. When mass produced hot sauces led only to disappointment, creator David Hooten decided to try his hand at making his own mango habanero hot sauce and bottle it up. It turned out so well that everybody who had the morbid curiosity to try something new (and potentially painful) loved it immediately! 

With many offers for purchases, David decided to sell to close friends, coworkers, and family while cooking up new ideas from the catacombs of his mind. David continues to use his food science knowledge to pair up new flavor combinations so that no ingredient is overwhelming unless it’s meant to be.

A Morbid Aesthetic

The name “Morbid Sauce” came from a collaborative brain storm between David, his fiance Christy, and her father. The ideas went from ‘boiling butt paste’ to ‘aloha pain’ to ‘assisted suicide’, and the theme continued to get darker and more macabre.

The aesthetics of Morbid Sauce would not have been possible without Christy, who was able to make incredible labels and an overarching design. The goal has always been to create a simple, elegant, and dark aesthetic. Every sauce name matches this theme and if the name of the sauce is not something you’d see in the obituaries, it’s not going to meet our naming requirements!

five bottles of Morbid Sauce hot sauce 5oz bottles left to right santa muerte ghoulish overkill sweet heat stroke assissted suicide youth in asia
Lord of the bones asphyxia macabre skeleton illustration with chili pepper cigar and black hat and pinstripe vest for Morbid Sauce hot sauce

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