Today, hot sauce goes far beyond the single grocery ... Capsicum frutescens peppers that had either come from Mexico or Central America in the mid-1800s. He grew his first commercial pepper ...

Perth-based Renae Bunster's venture into the hot sauce world started unintentionally. "I didn't really like chilli that much until I went backpacking around Mexico and Central America in 2011.

They weren't looking to borrow a cup of sugar, as the old saying goes, but rather a cup of hot sauce. "My mom, was already pretty famous back home with the hot sauce she made," Saldivar said.