Several of the featured hot sauces were made exclusively for the show by Heatonist, a high-end hot sauce retailer turned official hot sauce partner of "Hot Ones." If fans wanted to feel the burn ...

Vermont's Butterfly Bakery is about as hyperlocal as it gets, but CEO Claire Georges says her business is still affected by global trade policy.

For the last 10 years, we've been selling hot sauce made with locally sourced ingredients. We even started developing a really great relationship with Heatonist, who went on to manage "Hot Ones ...