Welcome to HYCH, we’re glad you’re here. We launched our craft hot sauce company in our home kitchen in Oregon in 2016.

Why? Because we were tired of bringing home hot sauces that were too hot to cook with and enjoy. We created HYCH (as in “hitch” a ride to amazing flavors) to bring you hot sauces with Heat You Can Handle.

In case you missed it:

HYCH stands for Heat You Can Handle!

We love to travel and explore local cuisines around the world. We hope you do, too, because we’ve built our entire line around our favorite global flavors. 

Catharine was raised in North Carolina and has lived in Chattanooga, Iceland, Hawaii, Costa Rica, Tucson, and Portland (plus a few spots in between!)

Matt grew up in Colorado and has worked as a chef in Mexico, Alaska, Denver, Costa Rica, Oregon, and Seattle. He served as Director of Education and Executive Chef of the Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Portland, OR.

Matt's deep culinary knowledge, developed over decades in the kitchen, shines through in our perfectly balanced and complex flavors.

We love traveling the world because it helps us better understand our own culture and reminds us that, at the heart of it, we all love to laugh and eat good food together!

— Matt & Catharine