Bad Decision Hot Sauce
Real Ingredients.Real Heat.
Every bottle is a Bad Decision.
Five sauces. Five levels of heat. Created in Royal Palm Beach, Florida. Free shipping on orders $40+ in the lower 48.
- Real Ingredients
- Small-Batch Quality
- Bold Flavor
- Made in Florida
The lineup
Our Sauces
Five flavors. Five levels of heat. What's your Bad Decision?
Find your heat
Not sure which one?
Five questions about heat, flavor and what you actually cook. We point you at one bottle and tell you why we picked it.
About thirty seconds. No email needed to see your result.
Bundles
Buy a set, pay less
Our three-bottle set is $33, building your own three starts at $33 ($35 with Ghost Jolokia), and all five is $50 — $12 less than buying them separately. Every bottle is full-size 5 FL OZ (148 ML).
Bad Idea — 3-Bottle Hot Sauce Gift Set
Jalapeño · Habanero · Smoked Chipotle
Three steps into bad decisions.
The Complete Bad Decision — 5-Bottle Hot Sauce Gift Set
Garlic · Jalapeño · Habanero · Chipotle · Ghost
BEST VALUE — SAVE $12
Flavor first
Flavor first. Heat follows.
Every bottle is built to taste like something. The heat is the second thing you notice, not the only thing.
Garlic
Jalapeño
Habanero
Smoked Chipotle
Ghost Jolokia
Our story
Bold flavor. Real consequences.
I'm Eli Perez. My love of hot sauce started in Puerto Rico. These five are made in Florida.
The name came from my mother. Every time I reached for a store-bought bottle she told me it was a bad decision — because it wasn't made with fresh ingredients. She could cook, so it carried weight.
It started with pique: peppers and garlic steeped in vinegar, the way it's done on the island. That turned into five sauces, mild through extreme.
Recipes are developed in Royal Palm Beach, Florida, where every online order is packed and shipped. The sauces are professionally manufactured and bottled for us in Jacksonville. Palm Beach County and nationwide.
In person this season
Where to find us
Oct 3 & 4 — Florida Creatives Market, Clover Park, Port St. Lucie. 10 AM to 4 PM, free entry.
Saturdays, Oct 17 – Apr 24 — Royal Palm Beach Green Market, 9 AM to 1 PM, lakeside at Village Hall. All five on the table, with tastings.
Serving suggestions
Put a Bad Decision on it.
One dish per bottle, mildest to hottest. Each one opens the sauce that is in the shot — and the recipes are in the Journal.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Before you buy
First Mistake if you want to taste your food more than the heat — it is the mildest, built on garlic and cayenne. Took The Bet is the honest pick if you are not sure where you stand: bright jalapeño, right in the middle of the scale. From there you can climb or come back down one bottle at a time.
Level 1 is First Mistake (garlic), 2 is Took The Bet (jalapeño), 3 is No Turning Back (habanero), 4 is Crossed The Line (smoked chipotle) and 5 is Ignored The Warning (ghost jolokia). The ranking is our own ordering of the range and is meant as a flavor guide rather than a measurement.
The Complete Bad Decision 5-Bottle Set. The five bottles come to $62 bought separately and the set is $50, so you pay for four and the fifth regular bottle is free. It also clears the $40 free shipping threshold on its own in the lower 48.
Free standard delivery on orders of $40.00 and up in the contiguous United States, and a flat $7.99 below that. Alaska, Hawaii and US territories are a flat $24.99. Free shipping is based on your subtotal after any discount code is applied.
The recipes were developed in Royal Palm Beach, Florida, where the brand is run from. The sauces are professionally manufactured and bottled for us in Jacksonville, Florida, and every online order is packed and shipped from Royal Palm Beach.
Unopened bottles keep somewhere cool and dark — a cupboard is fine. Once opened, refrigerate. They are vinegar-based and keep well, but the fridge protects the flavor and the color. Shake before each use; some separation is normal.
Five sauces. Five levels of heat.
Make your Bad Decision.
Created in Royal Palm Beach, Florida. Free shipping on orders $40+ in the lower 48.