The perfect hot sauce dosen’t happen overnight.

JD knows this better than anyone, he has spent most of his life growing the ingredients that makeup JD’s Backyard Sauces.

The formula that began to take shape and become the mainstay of the product line involved making the sauce with figs.

Why figs?

Well, why not?

On a summer night in 2002, J.D.'s mother-in-law happened to come over on sauce making night with a basket of figs from her fig tree. J.D. put some figs into the formula and the no-longer-secret ingredient to perfecting hot sauce was found!

The "Figgin' Hot" line was born on that sweltering evening in South Philadelphia.

  • 7 POT BUBBLEGUM

  • 7 POT GIGANTIC CHOCOLATE

  • AFTERGLOW

  • AJI CACHO DE CABRA

  • AJI DULCE YELLOW

  • AJI MANGO

  • BHUT JOLOKIA YELLOW

  • BIRD DUNG

  • BLACK PANTHER

  • CALWONDER GOLDEN

  • CAROLINA REAPER

  • CAROLINA REAPER WHITE

  • CAYENNE GOLDEN

  • CHERRY TART

  • CRIOLLA DE COCINA

  • DRAGON'S BREATH

  • HABANERO FRANCISCA

  • HABANERO JAMACIAN RED

  • HABANERO RED SAVINA

His self-described obsession with gardening began at the age of ten, he now grows over 40 varieties of chili peppers, there has to be a good use for them!

Over time, it was the hot sauce that won out.

JD’s Peppers

  • JALAPENO EARLY

  • JALAPENO M

  • JALAPENO TRAVELER

  • KING OF THE NORTH

  • LESYA RED

  • LESYA YELLOW

  • OROZCOPASILLA BAJIOPRIK CHI FAA

  • QUADRATO d'ASTI GIALLO

  • ROCOTO YELLOW

  • SERRANO CAJOHN

  • SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT HYBRID

  • TABASCO

  • TANGERINE TIGER

  • THAI GIANT ORANGE

  • THUNDER MOUNTAIN LONGHORN

  • TRINIDAD PERFUME

  • WILD BRAZILYUQUITANIA