Past Seasonal Releases
Main Squeeze
Spring 2024 — 16 cases produced
Turns out less is more. 2024 Main Squeeze is spicier than the 2023! This year, we featured hot aji guyano peppers from Tookey Farms and lemon drop peppers from Longer Table Farms.
Heat level: 9/10.
Spring 2023 — 20 cases produced
Our first golden chili crisp is warm weather in a jar. It features hot lemon drop peppers from Triple T Farms in Santa Rosa and juicy Meyer lemons sourced from our friends in Sonoma County and beyond. We’ve added Southeast Asian aromatics like galangal and lemongrass, making it a perfect accompaniment to grilled meats, papaya salads, spring rolls, and vermicelli bowls.
Heat level: 7/10. Not as XXL hot as our Dragon's Booty chili crisp, but will still get ya. It’s just hot enough to make you sweat a lil bit.
Moon Dance
Winter 2023 — 12 cases produced
Moon Dance features 100% Asian heritage pepper varieties grown entirely in western Sonoma County. They were propagated by farmers and seed stewards with the goal of championing sustainable farming practices and heirloom seed cultivation. Leslie Wiser of Radical Family Farms in Sebastopol grew the Er Jing Tiao peppers 二荆条 that make up the base of this special sauce. Ranging from medium to supremely spicy, Er Jing Tiaos are the classic long red chili pepper made famous by just about every Sichuan staple we know and love, from hot pot to mapo tofu. Next, we layered on a complex blend of spicy peppers grown by Scott Chang-Fleeman of Shao Shan Farms, which is nestled deep in the redwood forests of Green Valley. They include Chinese Paper Lantern peppers 灯笼椒, Xiao Mi La peppers 小米辣, and Korean Gyopo peppers 교포고추. Many of the original seeds at Shao Shan Farms were cultivated by the heartful hands of Kristyn Leach from Second Generation Seeds with the very mission of preserving, adapting, and breeding beloved Asian diaspora crops in California. Total rockstars, right?
Heat level: 7/10.
Kraken Sauce
Fall 2024 — 26 cases produced
Fall 2023 — 20 cases produced
Winter 2022 — 10 cases produced
This funky deep green chili crisp has the most delightfully aromatic olive oil infused with extra fragrant garlic chives, paired with a satisfying heat thanks to a combo of local jalapeño and poblano peppers. The foraged kombu and nori get jiggy with the other power players like garlic, dill, cardamom, Sichuan peppercorns, sesame seeds, and ginger to make this a one-of-a-kind chili crisp with strong furikake vibes.
Heat level: 5/10.
Sweet Cheeks
Summer 2024 — 50 cases produced
We really swung for the fences with this one. Sweet Cheeks is our first chili crisp developed specifically for ice cream sundaes!
We developed this recipe with the goal of sourcing a less water-intensive nut to provide that familiar crunch. It's also inspired by the Cantonese takeout classic, honey walnut prawns.
Sweet Cheeks features candied organic walnuts from Heron Fox Farms along with organic guajillo and mojo chile peppers from Tookey Farms.
Green Gems
Summer 2024 — 128 cases produced
Summer 2023 — 100 cases produced
Spring 2022 — 7 cases produced
Our first spontaneous one-off was one for the books. Chile verde is a favorite in our house, but green chiles themselves hadn’t yet made it into our products because Chinese chili oils are traditionally red. We’d always wanted to make a crispy, Sichuan-style salsa verde with the best green things we could find seasonally.
Garlic scapes, the sweet tender stems that flower from hard neck garlic varieties, make a fleeting appearance at the farmers market every spring. One market in May we bought all the scapes that Tom at Armstrong Valley Farm had left at the end of the day and our green chili crisp dreams came true. We chopped up all the garlic scapes (which, given how curly and unwieldy they can be, is a gnarly prep task), crisped them up, and snuggled them in with our stash of foraged sea kelp straight out of Bodega Bay. Green Sichuan peppercorns, fennel, fried shallots, and peanuts rounded it out to make Green Gems. It’s a jar of springtime treasures from our very own Sonoma Coast. It tastes like a mermaid snack and we will 100% be making this again.
Heat level: 1/10. All the flavor from the green chiles and none of the heat.