What is TABASCO® Brand Pepper Sauce?

TABASCO® brand pepper sauce is made with three simple ingredients: fully-aged red pepper, high grain all-natural vinegar, and a small amount of salt mined right on Avery Island. It's pure pepper sauce—no additives whatsoever.

How many drops are in a bottle of TABASCO® Sauce?

Each 2-ounce bottle (57ml) of TABASCO® Sauce contains at least 720 drops. (There are 60 drops per teaspoon; 3 teaspoons per tablespoon; 2 tablespoons per fluid ounce and 2 fluid ounces /57ml per bottle).

NOTE: If you're shaking on TABASCO® Sauce instead of measuring it drop by drop-you're on your own. The number of drops in a "splash" or a "dash" of TABASCO® sauce depends entirely upon how hard you shake the bottle! So, to have a "hot 'n spicy 'n flavorful" experience, limber up those wrists and go for it.

Many ways to use TABASCO® Sauce?

To make a Bloody Mary a bold adventure; to add pizazz to any pizza; to make seafood sauce a sensation; to add spice to scrambled eggs; to make perfect pasta or to turn a simple hamburger into a hero. Be adventuresome!

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TABASCO® Sauce is used all over the world as a condiment "by the drop," or "by the teaspoon" as a recipe ingredient. It is a preferred flavor enhancer for many different kinds of foods.

TABASCO® Sauce can be substituted in any recipe which calls for black pepper. To what degree you use it depends on your individual taste and the level of spicy flavor you prefer. Remember, one drop will work wonders when added to your finished soups, salads, main dishes....the uses are limitless!

Who makes TABASCO® Sauce?

McIlhenny Company has been turning out TABASCO® Sauce since its founding in 1868. It owes the recipe to family patriarch Edmund McIlhenny who planted the first red pepper plants on Avery Island in the 1860's. He later invented the famous sauce.

A quick history of Tabasco and the McIlhenny Company:

TABASCO® brand products are produced by McIlhenny Company, founded in 1868 at Avery Island, Louisiana, and still in operation on that very site today.

The Company's roots were actually cultivated a few years earlier, shortly after the McIlhenny family returned to the Island from self-imposed exile during the Civil War. According to family tradition, founder Edmund McIlhenny obtained some hot pepper seeds from a traveler who had recently arrived in Louisiana from Central America. McIlhenny planted them on Avery Island, and then experimented with pepper sauces until he hit upon one he liked.

In 1870, Edmund McIlhenny received letters patent for his unique formula for processing peppers into a fiery red sauce.

That same process is still in use today, and Avery Island remains the headquarters for the worldwide company which is still owned and operated by direct descendants of Edmund McIlhenny.

Where Does the Name TABASCO® Come From?

Edmund McIlhenny came up with the brand name TABASCO® as his second choice. Some scholars say it's a Central American Indian word that means "land where the soil is hot and humid." This certainly describes the climate of Avery Island that has proved perfect for growing his special variety of hot pepper. Other scholars have put forth that it actually means "place of coral or oyster shell".

	TRIVIA When all four production lines at the Avery Island factory are in operation, over 600,000 2-ounce/57ml bottles of TABASCO® Sauce can be made in a single day.

McIlhenny originally wanted to call his concoction Petite Anse Sauce (after the Island which then was known as Isle Petite Anse). But when family members balked at the commercial use of the family Island's name, he opted for the trademark TABASCO®.

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