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About Bad Decision Hot Sauce
Bad Decision Hot Sauce is a small-batch hot sauce brand from Royal Palm Beach, Florida. Five sauces, five different peppers, mild to extreme, sold direct from this site and shipped nationwide. The recipes are developed in Royal Palm Beach and the sauces are professionally manufactured and bottled in Jacksonville, Florida.
The idea behind the lineup is that each bottle should taste like a different pepper, not like the same recipe at five temperatures: garlic and cayenne, jalapeño, habanero, smoked chipotle, and ghost jolokia. The names are the brand’s sense of humor about heat — First Mistake through Ignored The Warning — and the heat scale on every label is the honest version of that joke.
Fast facts
- Based in: Royal Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida
- Founded: 2026 by Eli Perez, founder-owned
- Contact: (561) 787-9400 · BadDecisionHotSauce@outlook.com
- Lineup: five sauces plus a 3-bottle set, a 5-bottle set, and a pick-any-three set
- Bottle: 5 FL OZ (148 ML) glass, about 30 servings at 1 teaspoon
- Heat range: approximately 10,000 to 120,000 Scoville units
- Allergens: All five sauces are gluten free. Ignored The Warning (Ghost Jolokia) contains mustard. The other four do not. None of the five declare milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soy or sesame. Full ingredient lists are printed on every bottle and shown on each product page.
- Made: recipes developed in Royal Palm Beach; manufactured and bottled in Jacksonville, Florida
- Sold: online at baddecisionhotsauce.com, shipping nationwide; in person at the Florida Creatives Market, Clover Park, Port St. Lucie (October 3–4, 2026) and every Saturday at the Royal Palm Beach Green Market & Bazaar, October 17, 2026 – April 24, 2027
The lineup
- First Mistake — Garlic. Mild.
- Took The Bet — Jalapeño. Medium.
- No Turning Back — Habanero. Hot.
- Crossed The Line — Smoked Chipotle. Very Hot.
- Ignored The Warning — Ghost Jolokia. Extreme.
Images
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- First Mistake — Garlic
- Took The Bet — Jalapeño
- No Turning Back — Habanero
- Crossed The Line — Smoked Chipotle
- Ignored The Warning — Ghost Jolokia
Naming and style
- The brand is written Bad Decision Hot Sauce, four words capitalized, no hyphen.
- Sauce names are written as on the label: First Mistake, Took The Bet, No Turning Back, Crossed The Line, Ignored The Warning.
- The ghost sauce is labeled Ghost Jolokia. “Ghost pepper” is fine in prose.
- Please do not describe the sauces as made in Royal Palm Beach. They are created there and manufactured in Jacksonville, and the labels say so.
Interviews and samples
Founder interviews, samples for review, and answers to anything above: contact page, (561) 787-9400, or BadDecisionHotSauce@outlook.com. We answer everything ourselves, so replies come from a person, not a department.
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