Some of you may remeber Henry as the guy that out bid you on the #35 B-99 (on eBay) – making him one of the few people that owns both a B-99 reserve and a 2005 Holiday Reserve. The most interesting item in Henry’s collection has to be the Chile North IceHot Sauces – I’ve certainly never seen them around before.
A word from Henry…
I guess the greatest use of Blair’s sauces is as displays for all of my visiting company to view and admire. Along with the questions, why someone would be inclined to save such a commodity. My answer is that everyone has a passion for doing something different than the average person; this is mine. This all started years ago when I served in the US Army, during which time I was introduced to uses for [tag]Hot Sauce[/tag]. Basically, we used Tabasco (it was an issued item) on everything we ate; the reason it changed the great flavor of well known (Military Chow).After retiring from the service, I used to carry my mini bottle of Tabasco with me to places I consumed food. Over the past years I have grown my own Habanero/Serrano/Thai Peppers and after drying used a blender and make my own shakes of individual named peppers or a combination of these. This was a great experience.
By the way this mixture is great to keep squirrels out of flower beds. (Saves a lot of Hot Sauce).
Then I decided to try the Great Blair’s Hot Sauce; after a few of the bottles I have to become attached to the SUDDEN DEATH, it last forever (just me using), has a great flavor and does well on all the edible dishes that I enjoy.
My collection is primarily of sauces made with Haberano peppers, with the exception when I want a complete set of sauces such as Blair’s. My most prized collection is probably 5 fold: Blair’s Caldera; The Blair’s Reserve AM series; The added LeMillion The Holiday Series (missing Halloween 04).
Lastly I have acquired what I feel is a collectible unlike any other because of the unique bottles that are used, they are shown in photos from “ICEHOT” from Chili North LTD. From left is #001 of 180 the first made in 2000, #003 of 180 of year 2001, #002 of 180 of year 2002, #002 of 360 of year 2003(certificates included) Made only for these 4 years due to the supply of bottle were no longer available. They continued making IceHot with a smaller bottle.
My last one that I am working on is the upcoming CaJohn’s [tag]hot sauce collection[/tag].
Do you have a hot sauce collection (or single item) that you’d like to show off? Send it in! Hot sauce collection submissions can be sent to nick ‘@’ hotsauceblog.com – you can also check out the previous submissions in our Hot Sauce Collectors Corner.
59 responses to “Henry Knake’s Hot Sauce Collection”
Shoot!!!! I had a chance to get some of those Ice Hot sauces on ebay about a month ago. They were in those same bottles. I guess I should have scooped em up.
Whats the sauce on the top left of the last blairs picture?
Daniel, it’s a bottle of “Light You Up”, by CaJohn’s. It contains Red Savina Hab sauce.
That’s a pretty healthy collection you’ve got there Henry. Any plans on getting an 04 Halloween reserve?
One of those Cajohns light you up bottles just went for over 200 bucks on ebay a week ago.
Some of those CaJohns special bottles are pretty hard to find and can cost a pretty penny if signed and or numbered. There is a signed Sunburst on ebay right now too.
Nice collection Henry!
Those special Cajohn’s bottles have caught my eye on several occasions and I’ve only seen a few signed ones. Pretty rare and certainly nice to have in the collection, not that I have any though 🙁
How long have you been collecting, Jezza? I’ve only been collecting for about a year now and my collection pales in comparison to the ones seen on here. The unique Cajohns bottles is a side quest of mine too, but as of now I only have 3 of them…none of them signed.
I’m pretty new to actual collecting. I’ve been a fan of hot sauce / food for several years, but only actually collecting for about 9 months…
I’ve a long way to go to get anywhere near any of the collections featured on here, but I’m going on a one step at a time policy. For now my main focus is catching up on the Blair’s reserves, partially because I currently have a distinct lack of space, but primarily because they are such works of art!
That’s the direction I’ve taken as well. As of now, I only have 6 of Blair’s reserves. My problem is funding at the moment. Unfortunately I missed out on some of the presales while away on business, and had to pay for some costly car repairs. Guess I’ll see how my collecting goes after I get my raise next month 🙂
Hey Henery,
Nice collection, and yeh you just bet me out on that B-99. Us Navy lads have some creative uses for the Tobasco as well. I had some Mexican sauce on Saturday. Don’t know what they called it but it was green and it was wicked. The people nearly passed out when I threw the whole bowl of it on my rice and empanada. Feel Alive! 4 more days and look out ALBERKERKEY.
Hey Nick did you make an auto counter for people who blab the most? Nice! PS I’m at work and it sucks! Have to make up for time in NM. Aghhh It’s worth it
Mad – Yes, we now have a counter of the top 20 commenters – the “blab olympics”
I really appreciate the positive feedback on my display. Ref: Comment #1 (Scott) I contacted a man Steve”Chileman”Carter at ChileNorth, he worked for about a month to locate this set from around Canada(his distributors) and we arrangeed an agreeable cost. One week later I had them. I did see that one on Ebay that was a late 2003.
Mad, I’m not so sure it was Henry who won the B-99.
Ryan, like they say good thing happen to those who wait, so I’m waiting for 04 Halloween reserve hopefully in the near future.
Right on Henry. That’s what I keep telling myself, I just get frustrated in the mean time 😛
Henry, keep up the great work on the collection and thankyou SO much for giving us the opportunity to do this by serving your country!
those ice hot bottles are killer, where can i get some?
sweet, this one puts me ahead of Mad Reiley, but i,m sure not for long
Hopefuly there should be an 04 on ebay soon but it has been quite dull lately. Thats probably why i actualy have money in my account!
ebay has been depressing for me. I’ve seen a few 16 Mil. go on there, and I don’t have one yet…I should have waited til after my collection was up to date before getting married…
I think this warrants collectors corner #6
I need to spend some money.
And as far as the marrage thing goes,i know what you mean, try having a baby on the way…. argh
I see that the Cape Fear Pepper Co. is selling some Defcon sauces on ebay.:)
Pretty good day, I’d say…Our products hit E-bay, and the Creator is kicking back with a new B-99.
This is to ‘Defcon Creator’ I did pay dearly for that B-99 #35 that Mad talked about with 20 sec to go.
By the way I have been watching your upcoming site, looks good.
Thanks Henry, I appreciate the compliment. As for the B-99, I thought Mad was talking about the #96 that I was able to get today. Whoops, my bad. The site is up and running. We’ve found a couple little bugs still creeping around, but we’re crushing them as they come up. If anyone has ANY problems with the site, I’d appreciate it if you could tell us.
Congrats Creator.
I’ve been looking on ebay for your stff there. I figured someone would have put up a bottle of zero by now.
-=john=-
Hey Creator, love the site. I can’t make out what the back of your shirt says though.
What are the two boxes next to the Ice Hots?
And some accolades all the way around. First- great collection Henry, I also have had my eye out for the Ice Hot Sauces- the bottles are awesome. You have some really impressive sauces. Also- Creator I like the site and the graphics, good stuff man. Eman the back of his shirt says: “Witness Relocation Program”- we won’t ask……Vic
LOL! Thanks Vic. The shirt is a conversation piece…I think the best part is that a few intellectually-challenged bipedal forms actually ask me if I’m in the program. I tell them, “Of course, once you’re in the program, the gov’t makes you wear the shirt so they know who you are”. Sad part is, they believe me. These people are prime candidates for Soylent Green.
MSK: The boxes to the right of IceHot is TAYLOR’S MEXICAN CHILI; GOURMET HABANERO CHILI. I order this from the WEB. I love to save and use more than hot sauce as you can see by my salsas on the bottom. The great practice is to order 2, save one, eat one.
I see several Dave’s Reserves in there. What years do you have?
On the Dave’s:’98 ’99 ‘2000 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05, been looking for 2001, I’m not sure if I want to go back any farther since I don’t know when they started.
Henry…The first year was 1994.
MSK: Thanks for info, I guess now I can start looking for first 4 missing years. If none other strike my interest.
Soylent Green is people!!… aaaaaaaaaahhhhh
(got your back creator)
I noticed they have the recipe in “To serve man”. God, I love that book. “The secret’s in the meat!’. “What’cha got there Bubba? Must be one of those hard-shelled peppercorns”. Hmmmm, I think I need a beer. Klaatu Barata Nikto.
hoping you are going in another direction for the ingrediance you use for defcon
Nice collection !…on the ICE Hot, you can still buy it here in Canada, although hard to find. The original bottles are long gone, it is packed in normal bottles now….
just went to chile north’s site…you can still get one of the original bottles of the ice hot
Graham is right – you can get IceHot in the limited edition bottles Here.
Still signed and numbered:
“Each bottle is serial numbered and bears the signature of Steve Carter, the creator of this award winning product. ”
$35 CAD – Does this mean that this is the 2006 bottle? The bottle on the web looks like the last bottle in the picture above – which would make it a 2003?
=-john=-
HEY NICK,
Any way to make the comment box bigger? I keep forgetting what I wrote, and need to constantly scroll back through to see what i’ve typed (alright, I’m a little slow!)
-=john=-
John – This big enough for you?
Eman, hmmmm a DEFCON meat-based sauce. Perhaps reducing roadkill to its original carbon state, and building it back up with the infusion of various cultures, of course using the ancient Defcon transmutation scrolls and texts would be an interesting twist. Imagine that, coating a chicken wing with reformed raccoon and just a touch of the tincture of squashed squirrel. To think, my wife already hates the habanero dust which inhabits every nook and cranny of the house, imagine her face when I start bringing home former living forest creatures who met their demise by their only natural predators these days, Ford and Chevy. Ahhh, wedded bliss.
NICE!!!!!!
Much betterer!!!!!!!
Thanx,
-=john=-
huvason……
Unless my memory is fading, the ’03 Ice Hot sold out many moons ago. Production ceased in ’03 because the bottles were no longer available. Whether request go through Steve or not, it’s my guess that any acquisitions will most likely come from other collectors. Although, he would be your best bet.
Great green gobbs of…..yeah, you know the rest
nick….moch better on the comment box!!!!!!1
much better – here goes the spelling thing again
Henry kindly let me know of this blog and I thought I’d clear up some of the confusion over the Ice Hot LTD edition sauce. We made this product from 2000 through to 2003 (four years) in very limited editions however unfortunately finished it due to lack of the exquisite cobalt blue bottle.
We were able to get a very limited number of the 2003 edition back from a client however these have been snapped up thanks in part to this blog! The good news is that as a number of ardent collectors are interested in previous editions I am personally tracking down former customers who bought the lower number editions to see if they are interested in selling them. If anyone is interested in more info on Ice Hot please visit http://www.chilenorth.com and contact me.
Cheers Steve
LOL Hi steve, really nice bottles. Thanks I received them yesterday. Keeping number 270 for myself. The rest are up for grabs!!
Great service Steve thanks for the clear communication for the whole transaction.
What’s up Steve! Welcome to our humble blog!
The “Mississippi Sauce King”
Proud owner of:
2000 / #003
2001 / #005
2002 / #001
2003 / #001
Hey there Randy thanks for the welcome and glad to see such a great blog on the “hottest” topic on the internet! Keep in touch.
Cheers Steve
Hi Paul a pleasure doing business with you and see you have 3 on ebay already .. good luck and let’s hope the winners enjoy them as well
Cheers
Steve
Steve…I’ll tell you like my 4 year old grandson puts it….”I got my one eye on you”! LOL
On another note……..
Let me tell you guys something. Whether or not you have the collector bottles, you need to get some of the same product in the 5oz woozy. I absolutely love it on salads. I’m even going to try it on ice cream!
Randy,
I was ready to call out the search party! You made it back!
I be here my friend! LOL