The eight Bad Decision Hot Sauce bottles, left to right: First Mistake garlic, Took The Bet jalapeño, Crossed The Line smoked chipotle, No Turning Back habanero, Ignored The Warning ghost jolokia, Sweet Regret peach, Bad Call datil and Wrong Choice mango Scotch bonnet, with fresh garlic, peppers, peach and mango in front of red smoke

Bad Decision Hot Sauce

Real Ingredients.Real Flavor.Real Heat.

8 bold flavors. One Bad Decision away.

Eight bold sauces, mild to extreme, built for people who want flavor with their heat. Created in Royal Palm Beach, Florida. Pick your heat. Make your Bad Decision.

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  • Real Ingredients
  • Mild to Extreme
  • Free Shipping $40+
  • Created in Florida
  • 8 Unique Flavors

The lineup

Our Sauces

Eight flavors, mildest to hottest. New this season: Sweet Regret (peach, Mild), Bad Call (datil, Medium) and Wrong Choice (mango Scotch bonnet, Hot). What's your Bad Decision?

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Bundles

Buy a set, pay less

Bad Idea 3-pack: $33. Pick Any 3 from all eight flavors: from $33 ($35 with Ghost Jolokia). The Original Five: $50, regular $62, and it clears $40 free shipping on its own. Every bottle is full-size 5 FL OZ (148 ML).

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Crazy name. Serious sauce.

Flavor first. Heat follows.

Every bottle is built to taste like something: garlic, peach, jalapeño, datil, habanero, mango, smoke and ghost pepper. The heat is the second thing you notice, not the only thing.

A whole garlic bulb and loose cloves on dark stone with scattered peppercorns and salt Garlic
Ripe peaches, whole, halved with the stone showing and sliced, on dark stone with scattered chilli flakes and salt Peach
Fresh green jalapenos, whole, halved and sliced, on dark stone with scattered peppercorns and salt Jalapeño
Six yellow and orange datil peppers with green stems on dark stone with scattered chilli flakes and salt Datil
Five bright orange habanero peppers with green stems on dark stone with scattered peppercorns and salt Habanero
Two ripe mangoes and a scored mango half with slices, on dark stone with scattered chilli flakes and salt Mango
Dried smoked chipotle peppers, deep red-brown and wrinkled, on dark stone with a scattering of ground chipotle Smoked Chipotle
Five bright red ghost jolokia peppers with green stems on dark stone with scattered peppercorns Ghost Jolokia

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Eli Perez, founder of Bad Decision Hot Sauce, chopping fresh chillies in the kitchen with garlic, habaneros, jalapenos, dried peppers and coriander laid out on the counter

Our story

Bold flavor. Real consequences.

I'm Eli Perez. My love of hot sauce started in Puerto Rico, making pique: peppers and garlic steeped in vinegar. Whenever I reached for a store-bought bottle, my mother called it a bad decision, because it wasn't made with fresh ingredients.

That pique turned into eight sauces, mild to extreme. Recipes developed in Royal Palm Beach, Florida; made and bottled for us in Jacksonville.

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Find your heat

Not sure which one?

Five quick questions about heat, flavor and what you actually cook. We point you at one of the eight bottles and tell you why we picked it.

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All eight Bad Decision Hot Sauce bottles lined up with fresh garlic, peppers, peach and mango — the full table we bring to market

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 eight on the table, with tastings.

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Eight sauces. Mild to extreme.

Make your Bad Decision.

Created in Royal Palm Beach, Florida. Free shipping on orders $40+ in the Continental US.

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