Wanted to support local businesses and picked up this hot sauce today. It features wort from my favorite local brewery as well. Nearly $15 for this 5fl oz bottle.
by manbearpig541
21 Comments
deliveryer
I would only consider a $15 sauce it if I could try it first, and I’d have to love it and it would have to be unique.
There are plenty of excellent sauces that cost less than half that amount.
Jvancan
When you really think of it, the ingredients used are super cheap, and there are no crazy restrictions on the food chain regarding storage or transportation. So, for a bottle as small as the one on your picture, $5 should be the max.
The food cost on a bottle that size is probably around 15 cents ish.
Unreal_Idealz
$7 is a bit too much, but I grow my own and distribute for free, so what do I actually know? I love just giving out homemade hot sauce.
Ringadean
You basically donated to a local business. Which is great; I wish I could do it more. If your budget allows it, awesome. If your budget doesn’t, there are plenty of cheaper options.
AqueductFilterdSherm
The only sauces I willingly (over)pay $15+ for are torchbearer, pepper palace, and a few others. It’s gotta have the pepper I want as the main ingredient though and be hot enough to make it worth my while.
What I’m not about is paying for fake hype. I don’t care if it was made by virgin elves in the mountains of lake titicaca from a recipe in an ancient scroll. If it’s got $0.74 worth of ingredients it’s not worth $20 and never will be.
Baddog789
I paid $15 for a local sauce at a market. The guy was nice and it turned out to be an excellent sauce.
Wheniamnotbanned
For real, I feel, in my opinion and preferences, not that they are right or rule of law, that the sauces I get at the grocery store will never compare in quality, flavor, or heat, to those which I get from small businesses or mail order or specialty shops.
As such, my usual purchase is $9 – $13. I have found that most of the sauces I get from “off the beaten path” are just a world of difference and as such much better.
For what it’s worth, this stranger from the internet believe you made the right call, looking at those ingredients I bet it taste fuckin’ amazing, and at the end of the day that’s what matters the most. Life is a journey, the finish line is definite for all of us, we can’t control that, but we can control the path we take to the finish line. Keep it spicy!
UpperSupport9
Sakari farms grows a lot of their ingredients hence the more expensive price. They also produce in small quantities. Even with all that $15 is a reach.
DonJohnson1986
Lord of Screw lol.
JK but for some reason $13 seems like the absolute max even for boutique offerings. These days IDK anymore. How was it?
Severe_Performance99
$9-$12 seems like a good range to me
ssweatband
Around $10
SomeKindOfSomething
I live in Bend too, how is the sauce and where did you get it?
markgriz
Hot sauce prices are crazy today. I’d pay $10 for a locally produced sauce.
The $10 they are charging for Hot Ones sauces on Heatonist is ridiculous. These are mass produced sauces worth probably $5-6 max
seanyk88
It all depends on company margins. And how much you care about actual craft hot sauce.
If you know Sakari Farm, you know that they growth everything they make. I’ve been to their greenhouses. So you bought the ultimate craft sauce. They grow all their own peppers, and only make small batches. They have way more overhead to consider growing their own produce.
So to understand the price point which companies charge, you need to both consider and ask yourself if you appreciate the artistic and craft aspect of it. Which is insanely different from a trip to a local grocer whose sauces are mass produced.
Complete_Entry
Yeah, there’s a sauce I want to get that is $15 for 12 ounces and I keep not pulling the trigger.
I feel like a bottle that size should be under five bucks and inflation no longer means anything to me.
“pass it on to the customer” eventually means the customer walks.
ExplanationMany7051
Boneyard hasn’t been a local business for something like 10 years. Anheuser Busch (sp) or some folk bought them ages ago
SaveTheDayz
If you are crafty craft products won’t cost as much. Yes I am suggesting to employ the five finger discount.
TRex_Chef
6-8$ max and thats being stupid generous. We know your margins.
RhettGrills
$10-15 for super hot top tier
$5-10 for a special hot
$2-5 for a hot daily
passionproject000
Around $10 but maybe able to convinced to pay more depending on the occasion and bottle. Generally 5-8. After making my own all I’ve been using is homemade. I have more than enough peppers to make it through to next summer even
manbearpig541
Damn. I’m surprised by the number of cheapskates in this thread (no offense). This hot sauce is made of locally grown peppers, veggies, and beer wort. The only mass produced ingredient used is vinegar.
There are mass prosuced hot sauces from Hot Ones (Heatonist) hot sauces selling for over $25 and I’m crazy for spending $15 on this one??? Please….
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I would only consider a $15 sauce it if I could try it first, and I’d have to love it and it would have to be unique.
There are plenty of excellent sauces that cost less than half that amount.
When you really think of it, the ingredients used are super cheap, and there are no crazy restrictions on the food chain regarding storage or transportation. So, for a bottle as small as the one on your picture, $5 should be the max.
The food cost on a bottle that size is probably around 15 cents ish.
$7 is a bit too much, but I grow my own and distribute for free, so what do I actually know? I love just giving out homemade hot sauce.
You basically donated to a local business. Which is great; I wish I could do it more. If your budget allows it, awesome. If your budget doesn’t, there are plenty of cheaper options.
The only sauces I willingly (over)pay $15+ for are torchbearer, pepper palace, and a few others. It’s gotta have the pepper I want as the main ingredient though and be hot enough to make it worth my while.
What I’m not about is paying for fake hype. I don’t care if it was made by virgin elves in the mountains of lake titicaca from a recipe in an ancient scroll. If it’s got $0.74 worth of ingredients it’s not worth $20 and never will be.
I paid $15 for a local sauce at a market. The guy was nice and it turned out to be an excellent sauce.
For real, I feel, in my opinion and preferences, not that they are right or rule of law, that the sauces I get at the grocery store will never compare in quality, flavor, or heat, to those which I get from small businesses or mail order or specialty shops.
As such, my usual purchase is $9 – $13. I have found that most of the sauces I get from “off the beaten path” are just a world of difference and as such much better.
For what it’s worth, this stranger from the internet believe you made the right call, looking at those ingredients I bet it taste fuckin’ amazing, and at the end of the day that’s what matters the most. Life is a journey, the finish line is definite for all of us, we can’t control that, but we can control the path we take to the finish line. Keep it spicy!
Sakari farms grows a lot of their ingredients hence the more expensive price. They also produce in small quantities. Even with all that $15 is a reach.
Lord of Screw lol.
JK but for some reason $13 seems like the absolute max even for boutique offerings. These days IDK anymore. How was it?
$9-$12 seems like a good range to me
Around $10
I live in Bend too, how is the sauce and where did you get it?
Hot sauce prices are crazy today. I’d pay $10 for a locally produced sauce.
The $10 they are charging for Hot Ones sauces on Heatonist is ridiculous. These are mass produced sauces worth probably $5-6 max
It all depends on company margins. And how much you care about actual craft hot sauce.
If you know Sakari Farm, you know that they growth everything they make. I’ve been to their greenhouses. So you bought the ultimate craft sauce. They grow all their own peppers, and only make small batches. They have way more overhead to consider growing their own produce.
So to understand the price point which companies charge, you need to both consider and ask yourself if you appreciate the artistic and craft aspect of it. Which is insanely different from a trip to a local grocer whose sauces are mass produced.
Yeah, there’s a sauce I want to get that is $15 for 12 ounces and I keep not pulling the trigger.
I feel like a bottle that size should be under five bucks and inflation no longer means anything to me.
“pass it on to the customer” eventually means the customer walks.
Boneyard hasn’t been a local business for something like 10 years. Anheuser Busch (sp) or some folk bought them ages ago
If you are crafty craft products won’t cost as much. Yes I am suggesting to employ the five finger discount.
6-8$ max and thats being stupid generous. We know your margins.
$10-15 for super hot top tier
$5-10 for a special hot
$2-5 for a hot daily
Around $10 but maybe able to convinced to pay more depending on the occasion and bottle. Generally 5-8. After making my own all I’ve been using is homemade. I have more than enough peppers to make it through to next summer even
Damn. I’m surprised by the number of cheapskates in this thread (no offense). This hot sauce is made of locally grown peppers, veggies, and beer wort. The only mass produced ingredient used is vinegar.
There are mass prosuced hot sauces from Hot Ones (Heatonist) hot sauces selling for over $25 and I’m crazy for spending $15 on this one??? Please….