Hot Doc Ventures, LLC BBQ Sauces, Hot Sauces, & more |
Welcome to Hot Doc Ventures, LLC BBQ Sauces and Hot Sauces. The picture below is Hot Doc.
December, 2008...In a Fall 2008 taste test conducted at Ball State University, 197 participants compared Hot Doc's Sweet No Heat to Sweet Baby Rays. About 1/3 of research participants who normally consume Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ Sauce actually preferred Hot Doc's Sweet No Heat BBQ Sauce. And 2/3 of participants who normally consume Kraft and Open Pit preferred Sweet No Heat.
In Spring 2008, a BBQ Sauce Taste Challenge was conducted at Ball State University. Over 200 people participated. Researchers found that Hot Doc's Minimal Heat BBQ Sauce was favored 3 to 1 when compared to Open Pit BBQ Sauce.
I think you are going to like Hot Doc’s Hot Sauce. I’ve tried to strike a balance between spicy heat and good taste. Hot Doc's BBQ sauces are the product of 20 years hard work of perfecting a Texan recipe. You can have it sweet or you can have it spicy. I just suggest you try it.
Don't miss Hot Doc and his daughter, Sarah, on the cover of May/June 2007 Madison Magazine (a bi-monthly magazine production of the Anderson Herald-Bulletin). The cover photo is done in the tradition of "An American Gothic," but Hot Doc is holding a spatula instead of a pitch fork. On the inside is an interview with Hot Doc about the hot sauce and the BBQ sauce. It was fun meeting with the reporters and photographers; the article captures that fun. Yep, that's right, Sarah is a cover-girl, and Hot Doc is a cover-guy.
Hot Doc and Lezlie Johnson were interviewed by the Ball State University Ball Bearings multimedia magazine and here is the link: http://www.ballbearingsonline.com/feature/hotsaucedoc/index.htm
Check out the independent review of Hot Doc's BBQ Sauce--Some Call it Hot at hotsauceblog.com:
http://www.hotsauceblog.com/hotsaucearchives/review-docs-bbq-sauce-some-call-it-hot/
I grow my own garden—nothing but hot pepper plants (the 2006 season had about 80-85 plants; the 2007 season has more than 100 plants). More than half of my pepper plants are of the habanero variety. Likewise, Hot Doc’s Hot Sauce is made with home grown habaneros.
Hot sauce should be hot AND have good taste. It’s come to the point that I normally have a jar of Hot Doc’s Hot Sauce with me whenever I visit a restaurant. Inevitably, the restaurant’s hot sauce is either not hot enough, OR just doesn’t taste good. If there's a place in town that has some sort of spicy food challenge, I've done it, and wasn't impressed.
After years of people telling me to bottle my sauces, I’ve finally decided to take the plunge. I hope you enjoy it.
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