Meet The Horsemen
Heat Horse started with three friends (Chaz, Wayne and Eggo) and a borderline unhealthy obsession with all things food.
Back in 2021 three hungry boys and near lifelong friends sat at a table in the grounds of Coventry Cathedral at a street food event and hatched a plan to travel to food fairs, events, markets, restaurants, festivals and everywhere in between to eat, to enjoy and to share those experiences together. That plan spawned our first Instagram page (@threemenandaladle) which we still update to this day. Our first road trip was to the Hot Sauce Society event in Peckham where a host of sauce merchants peddled their spicy wares. We were enchanted by all the stories behind these brands and our taste buds danced to the unmistakeable ensemble of chillies of all flavours and potencies. We were hooked in, and in a big way.
Over the next couple of years we started to spend a little less time on the road and more time hanging out in each others kitchens, cooking together, coming up with new recipes, photographing our creations and sharing those experiences together. And we started to realise that as a trio, we were creating some really rather tasty and exciting food.
One September afternoon, we were recording a video series for our Instagram page where we quizzed each other on foodie topics while eating progressively spicier wings, including one coated in a hot sauce made from blackberries picked from Chaz’s garden. And in a moment of Scoville filled delirium, Wayne uttered the words which changed everything….
“It feels like I’ve been kicked in the face by a Heat Horse!”
The touch paper was lit. We were off to the races.
Over the months that followed we tested, devised, sampled and concocted our first ever hot sauce, which you will find in our range in the form of our Original Kick. One sauce turned into five. Five became seven. And Heat Horse was born.
Our ethos has always been to create sauces with massive flavours and interesting combinations of ingredients. We love a kick of fiery chilli but we don’t want to just be spicy and nothing else. We want to make sauces you can cook with, you can marinate with. We want our sauces to be a valuable cooking ingredient in your arsenal as well as a delicious condiment and addition to your food.