Flavor Balance HEAT! Hot Sauce Podcast

Flavor Balance HEAT! Hot Sauce Podcast

The Podcast for hot sauce fans and makers.

Episodes

November 7, 2025 43 mins

Grab some snack or chillax as we talk more about sampling and the life of owning a hot sauce bizz with John from Elixir Sauce Co.

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Grab some hot sauce and a snack and give a listen to John from Elixir Sauce Co based in Spokane WA. Learn the ins and outs of building a hot sauce business and how we go about it.

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October 24, 2025 42 mins

Join us in Part 2 of Flavor Balance Heat picking up from last week on talks about the ins and outs of content creation with Rocket from Eat Vermont.

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October 17, 2025 49 mins

Have some chores you need to get done but nothing to listen to? Look no further than Part 1 of this Flavor Balance Heat Podcast featuring Rocket from Eat Vermont.

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October 10, 2025 43 mins

Need something to listen to while you eat? Look no further as Flavor Balance Heat has got your back, and your taste buds. Today's guest speaker is Maddy, owner of Homestead Hot Sauce.

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October 3, 2025 57 mins

Grab some snacks and sit back to enjoy our guest speaker Sarah Marshall, creator of Marshall's Haute Sauce based in Portland Oregon. 

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September 26, 2025 46 mins

Flavor Balance Heat Welcomes Mike Jack as he delves into the heat eating side of the pepper/hot sauce bizz. Sit down and grab some snacks, and maybe even some hot sauce to enjoy this weeks episode.

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September 20, 2025 60 mins

Listen in as Homero from Harmacy Hot Sauce tells his hot sauce journey with Spike from Irish Spike's Unique Hot Sauce, Claire from Butterfly Bakery of Vermont, and Zac from High Desert Sauce Co out of Tuscon Arizona.

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Claire and Spike chat with Laura Dadap from DJABLO SAUCE

https://djablosauce.com Check out Zac's High Desert Sauce Co here: https://hdsauceco.com Check out Claire's Butterfly Bakery of Vermont Hot Sauces here: https://butterflybakeryvt.com Check out Irish Spike's Unique Hot Sauces and Vandal Pepper Sauces here: http://www.saucecult.com 

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Claire and Spike chat with Laura Dadap from DJABLO SAUCE

https://djablosauce.com Check out Zac's High Desert Sauce Co here: https://hdsauceco.com Check out Claire's Butterfly Bakery of Vermont Hot Sauces here: https://butterflybakeryvt.com Check out Irish Spike's Unique Hot Sauces and Vandal Pepper Sauces here: http://www.saucecult.com 

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Claire, Zac and Spike chat with Patrick Freivald from Frog's Point Honey

https://www.frogspointhoney.com

Check out Down to Ferment Hot Sauces: https://www.down2ferment.com Check out Zac's High Desert Sauce Co here: https://hdsauceco.com Check out Claire's Butterfly Bakery of Vermont Hot Sauces here: https://butterflybakeryvt.com Check out Irish Spike's Unique Hot Sauces and Vandal Pepper Sauces here: http://www.saucecult.com 

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Claire, Zac and Spike chat with MISHKA SHUBALY - Writer, Musician, Hot Sauce Enthusiast & his mom ELAINE LALONDE - All-Around Wonderful Human Being

https://www.instagram.com/mishkashubaly

https://www.facebook.com/shubaly.mishka/

Check out Down to Ferment Hot Sauces: https://www.down2ferment.com Check out Zac's High Desert Sauce Co here: https://hdsauceco.com Check out Claire's Butterfly Bakery of Vermont Hot Sauces here: h...

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Claire, Zac and Spike chat with SHUBALY - Writer, Musician, Hot Sauce Enthusiast & his mom ELAINE LALONDE - All-Around Wonderful HUman Being

https://www.instagram.com/mishkashubaly

https://www.facebook.com/shubaly.mishka/

Check out Down to Ferment Hot Sauces: https://www.down2ferment.com Check out Zac's High Desert Sauce Co here: https://hdsauceco.com Check out Claire's Butterfly Bakery of Vermont Hot Sauces here: https://...

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Claire and Spike and (standing in for Zac) guest host Scott from Lucky Dog Hot Sauce helped a little bit too, we chat with Kaveh Hoda a gastroenterologist from THE HOUSE OF POD

Check out Scott's Lucky Dog Hot Sauce here: https://luckydoghotsauce.com Check out Claire's Butterfly Bakery of Vermont Hot Sauces here: https://butterflybakeryvt.com Check out Irish Spike's Unique Hot Sauces and Vandal Pepper Sauces here: http://www.saucec...

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Claire and Spike and (standing in for Zac) guest host Scott from Lucky Dog Hot Sauce, chat with Kaveh Hoda a gastroenterologist from THE HOUSE OF POD

Check out Scott's Lucky Dog Hot Sauce here: https://luckydoghotsauce.com Check out Claire's Butterfly Bakery of Vermont Hot Sauces here: https://butterflybakeryvt.com Check out Irish Spike's Unique Hot Sauces and Vandal Pepper Sauces here: http://www.saucecult.com

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Claire and Spike chat with Stacy Moritz from SECTRET AARDVARK Check out Secret Aardvark Hot Sauces: www.secretaardvark.com

Check out Zac's High Desert Sauce Co here: https://hdsauceco.com Check out Claire's Butterfly Bakery of Vermont Hot Sauces here: https://butterflybakeryvt.com Check out Irish Spike's Unique Hot Sauces and Vandal Pepper Sauces here: http://www.saucecult.com

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Claire and Spike chat with Stacy Moritz from SECTRET AARDVARK Check out Secret Aardvark Hot Sauces: www.secretaardvark.com

Check out Zac's High Desert Sauce Co here: https://hdsauceco.com Check out Claire's Butterfly Bakery of Vermont Hot Sauces here: https://butterflybakeryvt.com Check out Irish Spike's Unique Hot Sauces and Vandal Pepper Sauces here: http://www.saucecult.com

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March 23, 2025 48 mins

Claire, Zac and Spike chat with Sean and Ryan from Down to Ferment Hot Sauce. Check out Down to Ferment Hot Sauces: https://www.down2ferment.com Check out Zac's High Desert Sauce Co here: https://hdsauceco.com Check out Claire's Butterfly Bakery of Vermont Hot Sauces here: https://butterflybakeryvt.com Check out Irish Spike's Unique Hot Sauces and Vandal Pepper Sauces here: http://www.saucecult.com

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March 7, 2025 44 mins

Claire, Zac and Spike chat with Sean and Ryan from Down to Ferment Hot Sauce. Check out Down to Ferment Hot Sauces: https://www.down2ferment.com Check out Zac's High Desert Sauce Co here: https://hdsauceco.com Check out Claire's Butterfly Bakery of Vermont Hot Sauces here: https://butterflybakeryvt.com Check out Irish Spike's Unique Hot Sauces and Vandal Pepper Sauces here: http://www.saucecult.com

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February 22, 2025 60 mins

Zac and Spike chat with SAM SA'HOUSE! from SAM SA'HOUSE Hot sauces Check out SAM SA'HOUSE! here: hhttps://www.samsahouse.com/

Check out Zac's High Desert Sauce Co here: https://hdsauceco.com

Check out Claire's Butterfly Bakery of Vermont Hot Sauces here: https://butterflybakeryvt.com

Check out Irish Spike's Unique Hot Sauces and Vandal Pepper Sauces here: http://www.saucecult.com

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