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Welcome to The Sauce Forge!

Get ready to fire up your taste buds with our handcrafted and homegrown sauces. We are small start up sauce business based in Crawley, selling our range of spicy condiments direct to you here on our website, or at local farmers and craft markets in the Surrey & West Sussex area.

Come with us as we expand our range of fiery hot sauces, our take on ketchups, tangy kimchi, sweet-spicy chilli jams and hot honey to level up your mealtimes! Checkout our signature sauce "The Original" crafted with love with homegrown and hand picked ingredients, it's a fresh flavour explosion you won't forget.

If you'd like to stock us (we are more than happy to provide samples), or wish to host us at a market, please get in contact with us via email at [email protected] or DM us on our Instagram, and we can discuss wholesale pricing.

So? What do we bring to the table?

Homegrown handcrafted

We take pride in growing and using our own chilli peppers, ensuring that each sauce is crafted from the freshest ingredients we can get our hands on! Our hands-on approach from seed to sauce guarantees a level of quality and authenticity we are proud to call our own.

Local small business

We’re more than just a hot sauce brand — we’re a small, local business fueled by a love of crafting unforgettable flavors. Just getting off the ground, we’re thrilled to bring our creations directly to you at farmers’ markets and craft fairs.

We’re your neighbours

We’re not a faceless corporation; we’re your neighbours, that genuinely care about what you think. Your feedback inspires us to perfect our craft and forge sauces that ignite taste buds and bring people together.

Just a click away

Explore our range of handcrafted sauces on our website. We try to bring the farmers’ market experience to your fingertips. Can’t catch us at a market? Our website will soon feature exclusive batches, limited editions, and sometimes early access to new releases.

Our Range

After honing our signature recipe in 2024, and encouragement from our faithful taste testers, we decided to launch our own business. We are starting out small, over the coming months we have great aspirations to expand our range of evergreen sauces, as well as limited edition sauce drops.

Back in December 2024 we launched with an initial drop consisting of 4 sauces, from blazingly hot all the way to sweet and spicy, all crafted using 2024's crop of our own homegrown chilli peppers. Our limited edition sauces sold out within days.

In 2025 we are back bringing the heat i! We will also be experimenting with a few new ideas; ketchups, BBQ sauces and kimchi, and a milder take on our signature hot sauce, that we are so happy to be sharing with you.

It all started with Pickled Eggs

Our daughter is an avid Pickled Egg muncher, and fed up with paying the exorbitant prices of shop bought pickled eggs, we decided to make our own.

Then after a few birthday & Christmas presents, a pickling book, a fermentation crock and a fair few mason jars, we started to venture out of our comfort zone and make our own Kimchi. Once we got the basics of lacto-fermentation down, we tried our hand at crafting our own hot sauce!

Our first few attempts were not so palatable, but we persevered, We initially branded ourselves as Dan Clarke's Hot Sauce, where we set to work refining our recipe and dialling in the flavour profile and heat levels, Once our friends and family caught wind of what we were up to, jumping at the chance to volunteer to be our guinea pigs, and were constantly asking for more, we knew we were onto some special!

Below you can see each of our first attempts on the road to becoming The Sauce Forge.


Where can you find us!

We will also be popping up at local farmers markets across Surrey and West Sussex in 2025. Keep an eye below for details about where we will be and when!

Upcoming Events and Fairs

Saturday, April 19, 2025 10:00 AM

Warlingham Farmers Market

Village Hall, Limpsfield Rd, Warlingham CR6 9LE

Saturday, May 10, 2025 10:00 AM

Warlingham Crafters Market

399 Limpsfield Rd, Warlingham CR6 9HA, UK

Saturday, June 21, 2025 11:00 AM

Warlingham Summer Fair 2025

Blanchmans Farm Nature Reserve, 555 Limpsfield Rd, Warlingham CR6 9DX

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