Small-batch hot sauce for people who cook
Please stop buying grocery-store hot sauce if you cook
Habanero and tangerine, cooked in a small pan. Warm citrus first. A clean burn after. For nights you were about to give up on the bottle in the door.
Five ounces. Fruit first. Heat second. Packed in the United States the day you pay.
You wanted heat. You got vinegar.
- You shake the cheap bottle onto eggs. It tastes like a pickle jar and cayenne.
- Dinner still needs another condiment to taste like food.
- The bottle lives in the door for a year. You tell yourself you just don't like hot sauce.
Your taste buds are fine. The sauce was built for the shelf.
Grocery hot sauce is cooked to sit for two years. Vinegar is the job. Flavor is not. That is why it burns and then disappears, and why you reach for salsa anyway.
Fruit and peppers, cooked together, without a vinegar bath
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Tangerine, not syrup
Real citrus in the pan, so the first taste is fruit. Without candy heat.
- 02
Habanero, not a dare
Bright medium burn that leaves the plate. Without numbing your mouth.
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Small batches
Cooked in a pan we can taste, not a tank we have to preserve. Without bulk filler.
What is in the bottle
Habanero peppers, tangerine juice, tangerine zest, yellow onion, garlic, lime juice, sea salt, raw cane sugar.
No nuts, dairy, gluten, or soy. Cooked in a kitchen that handles peppers and citrus.
What changes, and when
Night one
Eggs, leftover rice, a taco. You finish the plate.
Week one
It lives next to salt. You stop hiding the old bottle in the door.
Month one
You are planning the next bottle before this one is gone.
The kitchen
It started with her grandmother's pans
Maya Lisboa grew up in a kitchen that always smelled like peppers.
Her grandmother loved hot sauce the way some people love bread. She cooked it by hand, a different batch every week, never the same pan twice.
Those sauces were small, tasting, and meant for the table that night. Not a tank. Not a two-year shelf.
Brasa Atelier is that kitchen, now in bottles. Fruit and peppers, cooked in a pan we can taste, packed in the United States the day you pay.
Maya Lisboa, founder
“My grandmother loved pepper sauces. She cooked them by hand, a different batch every week. That kitchen is this bottle.”
Mandarina
Bright tangerine heat that actually tastes like fruit
Cook with it for 30 days. If it still tastes like heat without flavor, contact us through the store and we refund it.
Packed in the United States the day you pay. We collect a shipping address at checkout.
30 days on your table
Cook with it for 30 days. If it still tastes like heat without flavor, contact us through the store and we refund it.
Get MandarinaQuestions
Why is a five-ounce bottle $18?
You are not buying a gallon of vinegar you will not finish. This is a small pan of fruit and peppers. If it is just heat, the 30-day refund still stands.
How hot is it?
Bright medium. You taste tangerine first. It is not a competition sauce.
What is in it?
Habanero peppers, tangerine juice, tangerine zest, yellow onion, garlic, lime juice, sea salt, raw cane sugar. No nuts, dairy, gluten, or soy. Cooked in a kitchen that handles peppers and citrus.
Where do you ship?
Packed in the United States and handed to the carrier as soon as payment clears. We ship to the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Brazil.
Where is it made?
In Maya Lisboa's kitchen in the United States, the same small-batch way her grandmother cooked pepper sauces.
What if I don't like it?
Cook with it for 30 days. If it still tastes like heat without flavor, contact us through the store and we refund it.
