About us

Pancho Picante is a farm to table and a seed to sauce micro-batch producer of hot sauces and seasonings. We have a focus on sustainable and regenerative farming practices.

With a passion for spicy food that was influenced from his father Francisco, who in Mexico are known as Pancho. There has never been a time our chef and owner does not remember making salsa and traditional Mexican dishes in the kitchen, learning all he could from his parents great cooking.

After years of cultivating and breeding peppers, crafting and perfecting various salsas and hot sauces, the pandemic presented an opportunity for our chef and owner, who was in the final stages of returning to school and graduating with a bachelors degree, to decide and return to his studies and gain an additional business minor in order to pursue a hot sauce and seasoning manufacturing company.

Upon graduating with a bachelors degree from WVUP and in the final stages of finalizing the manufacturing company, Our chef and owner was offered an opportunity to grow all of the peppers himself for Pancho Picante at WVUP's the Riverhawk farm. Pancho Picante then leased 1/3 acre from WVUP and throughout the season, over 5,000 lbs of peppers were harvested in 2023, with plans to return the following years.

We at Pancho Picante, call ourselves "purveyors of flavor". Our primary focus is to enhance the flavor of food, not over power it or cover it with spicy. Our sauces and seasonings are flavor forward, with various levels of complimenting heat. We have adopted the idea of our sauces and seasonings making food "sabroso", or deliciously tasty. 

We personally and truly believe in the magic of crafting at all times possible from Seed to Sauce™.

 

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Sunday, June 11, 2023 we were featured on the front page of The Parkersburg News and Sentinel, our local newspaper.

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Pancho Picante was in the Parkersburg News and Sentinel on Sunday November 5, 2023!

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Best sauces

These sauces exceed my expectations. Amazing flavor and I like the different heat levels. I always keep stocked up.

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Black Mug, 15oz, Logo
Butcher Carolina & Steve

Love, love the black Pancho Picante Mug!! It’s a great size and the handle fits perfectly in my hand!!
It’s a tall mug, so I can fill it up with my favorite coffee and savor it for a while before I need a refill!!

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Snake Bite
Erik Peterson
More than just heat

This sauce is amazing! It’s has just the right amount of heat combined with other flavors- not just a hot sauce. I’ve had it on almost everything, pasta, chicken, pizza, tacos, you name it. Just the right sauce to give it a little something extra.

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Sol Fire
Lia Alma
Favorite Ever

This stuff is DELICIOUS. I put it on everything!

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Mixed green peppers Per Lb
Susana Santelices
Green tasty bell peppers

The smell and the flavor was unique and wonderful. It reminds me of the real bell peppers 🫑 while my mother cooked them specifically in summer time. With in 2 days all the bell peppers were gone. I cooked different Spanish recipes . I need more 😌😌

Delivery fee for Farmacy

Delicious, and HOT!

I LOVED these sauces. Very tasty and more complex flavor than vinegar based sauces. I got a little carried away the Exorcist and quickly realized it's one of the hottest sauces I've ever had. All of the sauces are delicious and I highly recommend them.

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Fatalii
Brian

Spectacular peppers!

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Hot Sauce Bundle
Johnathan

Extremely high quality and absolutely delicious. I absolutely love this stuff!

Addicting

I buy this hot sauce frequently for my husband. This was probably my 6 or 7th order. He can go thru the 3 large bottles in about 2 weeks. He puts this on everything and can’t decide which flavor is his favorite so usually puts all 3 on everything he eats.
These small bottles are perfect for his lunchbox. By far his favorite and he has tried numerous other brands.

Best hot sauce on the market

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Exorcist
John B
Amazing Hot Sauce Company

Very tasty and on my second order they threw in some promotional super hot shake. I have already ordered twice and plan on many more!

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Snake Bite
Joel Allen
Hot sauce

I never received my hot sauce due to usps never sending it to me

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Hot Sauce Bundle
Andrew Elliott
Great Fresh Sauce

Absolutely tasty! Very fresh and the colors are just beautiful. All of the sauce has great unique flavors, and they all bring some heat! Definitely would buy again!

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Snake Bite
scott graney
Full of herb flavor!

I bought this due to the picture of the sauce. It looked chuck full of seasoning. And I was right. Serious depth of flavor and just the right amount of heat to get your attention. Loved it!

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Snake Bite
William Waldron
Ken

This stuff is AWESOME! I am getting more! It's got good heat and GREAT tast!

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Hot Sauce Bundle
Mike Mendoza
Great sauces

Great heat to the snakebite, and exorcist. I wish there was a bigger bottle for exorcist

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Hot Sauce Bundle
Erik Peterson
Great flavor, not just a hot sauce

Much more than just heat, great flavor. Compliments the food without overwhelming it. Worth the price

Best hot sauce made in U.S!!

Best flavor combination. Tastes fresh and unlike any others I have had. Love it!

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Hot Sauce Bundle
Shane Staples
Amazing sauce!!

I recently ordered and received the 3 pack including El Greengo, Sol Fire and Snake Bite. They arrived faster than expected, much to my delight. I ordered these sauces based on the look and all the positive reviews. The sauces look even better in person than they do online! I couldn't wait to break into it but decided to only open one bottle at a time. I've got too many sauces already open as it is. I went with El Greengo first because my wife was excited to try it as well and her tolerance is quite a bit lower than mine. We both absolutely LOVED this sauce and have just about finished the bottle in a week's time. Looking forward to cracking the next one open soon!!

All the flavors are outstanding! Love each one I purchased!!

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Hot Sauce Bundle
Christian Scotty
Order messed up(website error?)

I had ordered the 3pack with the extra little spicy guy and also an extra spicy guy, only got a 3 pack and a little spicy guy

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Hot Sauce Bundle
Jean Thomson
Fantastic hot sauce

We consume a lot of hot sauce and Pancho Picante is the best we’ve had in a long time. We highly recommend this hot sauce!

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Hot Sauce Bundle
Brad Arnow
The Sauces are GREAT!

The shipping was quick, and the sauces arrived safely. I love sauce with a little texture, and these sauces are visually stunning. The flavor lived up to the visuals. I very much enjoy each of them, and they will be a regular part of my collection.

AWESOME!!

This stuff has so much flavor. I’ve been using the sol fire and snakebite. I haven’t opened the other two yet. But the ones I’ve opened are great. And they put a thank you card hand written with my name on it in the box… Nice gesture and makes it a little more personable. I’ll be buying more.