580 Bottles of Sauce on the Wall No. 500! No. 499 is Enwrong Shredded Sauce, packaged with faux shredded Enron documents; No. 500, acquired at the Raley's in Loomis, is ... Tabasco. In a field that's lately filled with gimmicks and glitz, our benchmark bottle is a classic, the two-ounce version of Avery Island's habanero sauce. Contributions welcomed as we burn toward 1,000.

The Emerald Lake Lodge Hot Sauce Collection

Our collection is pourable pepper sauces. This list doesn't include salsas, hot oils, chile pastes, pickled peppers or taco sauces. I suspect some of the Asian sauces are mild by our standards, but if they are billed as hot or appear to have substantial chile content,we include them.

The contents of most bottles in our collection have been consumed. David goes through a bottle every week or two, faster for the wimpy ones. Some (for instance, any turning brown, or any with a whole banana in the bottle) will never be eligible for consumption.


Notes on the list:

580 sauces, tallied August 2008
A-B C-D E-I J-N O-S T-Z