The Kettering woman behind HouseMade Sriracha is heating up D-town with her recently released Thai chili hot honey.
HouseMade also collaborated with Miami Valley Spice Traders in Kettering on a line that includes a Thai chili sriracha rub, tomatillo-serrano salt, smoked sriracha salt and chili sriracha salt. Each of these cost $5 a jar.
They are sold at Arrow Wine, 2950 Far Hills Ave. in Kettering; Belmont Party Supply, 2621 S. Smithville Road in Dayton; Bountiful Butcher, 2857 Crescent Blvd. in Kettering; and Ghostlight Coffee, 1201 Wayne Ave. in Dayton’s South Park neighborhood.
The Thai hot honey retails for $10 per 11-ounce bottle. Click here to find it on the HouseMade website.
Dorthy Lane Market, 2710 Far Hills Ave. in Oakwood, is among the businesses currently selling it.
Wheat Penny Oven and Bar, 515 Wayne Ave. in Dayton's Oregon District, is testing pizzas featuring it.
Don't let the words sriracha or Thai hot honey scare you off. The Ohio-produced honey used in the mix is gingerly spiced. Who doesn't like some sweet and spicy on their plate?
“It’s going to be the next (big) condiment,” House predicted.
House is certainly proud of her young company’s heated collaboration with bees.
“It’s my new favorite thing,” she said.
The always on-the-grind entrepreneur eats hot honey with everything from waffles to roasted turnips to acorn squash.
It has been a busy few months for House, an Oakwood native raised in the restaurant business (her dad and stepmother are part owners of the Oregon Express in Dayton’s Oregon District).
House and her boyfriend, Jason Kramer, began selling the sriracha (pronounced "sir-rotch-ah") to family members and friends as gifts for Christmas 2013.
The 2006 graduate of Sullivan University’s culinary school launched HouseMade Sriracha in April.
The sriracha is included in dishes on several local menus and already sold by the bottle at about 60 vendors in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. It retails for about $10 a bottle. A pineapple-tomatillo and a cayenne-apricot sauce are in the works.
Sriracha is growing in popularity in the Dayton market. There is a good chance you’ll find a bottle of it on the table at your favorite eatery.
Walt Major of Walt's Homemade Salsa began bottling and selling a sriracha hot wing sauce this fall. He sells 12-ounce bottles at his 2nd Street Market booth, 600 E. 2nd St. in downtown Dayton, for $6 a bottle or four bottles for $20. The booth operates from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Walt’s sriracha is sold at some local Kroger locations for $4.99 a bottle.
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