Frequently Asked Questions

At Lord's, we are passionate about Fermentation. Most of our peppers are fermented for a minimum of one year in Canadian White Oak barrels after harvest but some ferments can reach up to five years.

Once we're happy with the flavour profile of the pepper mash, we'll use those ferments to cook more complex and interesting sauces. When you savour one of our sauces, you are experiencing a long-lasting process that started years ago in our Canadian fields, and ends up on your taste buds.

First of all, the fermentation process changes and complexifies the flavour profile. It's all about flavour. The taste evolves over time, and we use different peppers fermented for different periods of time until we reach the ultimate flavour characteristics we want to use in our sauces. 

Fermented foods are also suggested to produce added health benefits such as greater probiotics supporting gut and immune function, to increase nutrient availability and to reduce inflammation. For centuries, different cultures have used this process in the production of Kimchi, Sauerkraut and many other healthy products.

Fermentation is also an ancient food preservation practice. Using salt in lacto-fermentation allows foods to create their own natural acid (lactic acid), which adds another layer of flavour while also preserving it.

A while. The vinegar and the fermented peppers act as natural preservatives in all our sauces. We usually recommend to consume the sauce within a year once opened, but the sauce itself is shelf-stable. It may lose a bit of heat after that, but it will still be delicious.

We recommend to keep your sauce in the fridge to maintain its quality over a longer period. Our hot sauce should maintain its quality within at least 1 year in the fridge, after you open it. Don't worry if you don't, as it is perfectly safe on the counter. You may just encounter slight colour and flavour changes over time due to oxidation, but nothing that would affect your health.

 

Yes, yes and yes.

Our sauces are Vegan, Gluten-free, Non-GMOs, made only with fresh, natural and locally-sourced ingredients in Canada. We don't add any preservatives, additives, coloring agents, or thickeners.

All Natural.

Only the Aloha Sauce contains mustard.

Heat is subjective. It varies from person to person. Even the Scoville Scale, though popular, is actually based on a fairly subjective process, as it consists of diluting the sauce more and more until a panel of tasters stop tasting any heat. The result of the dilution will give you the rating.

At Lord's, we decided to rate the Heat on a scale from 1 to 10, but again, it depends on your personal taste and tolerance.

We consider anything below 4/10 as pretty mild and easy to accommodate. At 5/10-6/10, we consider Medium Heat, and anything over that ranges from Hot to Extremely Hot. For example, our Millionaire is rated 9/10 and contains 16% fermented Carolina Reapers, and our Billionaire, rated 10/10, is actually 60% Reapers, roughly 4 times hotter.

That is perfectly normal in an artisanal, natural sauce. Just give it a good shake.

The reason why so many other sauces seem to have a uniform consistency is because they use industrial thickeners, such as Xanthan Gum, to give it a more polished feel.

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