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Sauce the way it should be made

Flavour
over heat.

Hot sauce + sambal built from real ingredients, layered flavour, and recipes that came from kitchens, not labs. Made for the people who know what good homemade sauce tastes like, and the ones still pouring the same old watered-down stuff (you know the ones we mean) who deserve better.

100,000+Bottles sold
150+5-star reviews
GQ features
2025Ontario Made finalist
As featured inGQ BlogTO Swagger Magazine Ontario Made CHFA Toronto Life

Six promises. Every batch. Every label.

Not marketing fluff. Read the labels.

100% Vegan
100% Vegan
No shrimp paste. Ever.
Gluten-Free
Gluten-Free
Always. Every recipe.
All-Natural
Real food. Nothing weird.
🧂
Low Sodium
No salt-bomb shortcuts.
Made in Ontario
Made in Ontario
Small-batch in Toronto.
✈️
Carry-on Safe
60mL minis travel anywhere.
Why LITS earns its spot

Three promises in every bottle.

01

Essential to every meal.

Real sauce belongs on the table, not buried in the back of the fridge for one wing night a year. Built so you'll actually use it: Tuesday eggs, Wednesday rice, Sunday roast, all of it.

02

Real ingredients. Real recipes.

Lemongrass, Scotch bonnet, kesar mango, fresh garlic: things you can pronounce, made small-batch, no fillers, no extract shortcuts. Vegan, gluten-free, low sodium, all-natural. Everyone gets to eat.

03

Story in every bottle.

Amma's Sambal carries my mom's recipe. OG Boodoo honours my late best friend Brandon and his family's pepper sauce. Every other bottle is built in that same spirit: sauce worth naming, worth keeping, worth coming back to.

Founder of Lost in the Sauce, Karthy Subramaniam, standing in front of the LITS booth at the Underpass market in Toronto.
KarthyFounder · Toronto, ON
Meet the maker

Sauce, never a side note.

I'm Malaysian-Tamil, born into a household where sauce wasn't a condiment, it was the soul of the meal. Amma's sambal turned weeknight rice into something I'd think about the next day. Every friend's house I'd visit (different cultures, different recipes) had its own version of the same story: a homemade sauce on the table, treated as essential.

Then I'd walk into a supermarket and the only options were watered-down bottles built for novelty wing nights and shock-value gimmicks. You know the kind. That gap (between real, homemade sauce and what's actually on the shelf) is why LITS exists.

Amma's Malaysian Sambal carries my mom Siva's recipe. OG Boodoo is named for my late best friend Brandon, whose family's Trinidadian pepper sauce changed how I thought about what hot sauce could be. Every bottle since is built in that same spirit: small batches, real ingredients, made for cooking, made for you.

— KarthyFounder, Lost in the Sauce

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Why LITS earns its spot.

Attribute
Them
LITS
Flavour-first
Mostly heat
Real depth + balance
All-natural
Often loaded
Clean label
Vegan + GF + Low sodium
Sometimes
Always
Bold & thick
Usually runny
Spoonable
Travel-friendly
Bulky only
60mL minis
Real story
Mass-produced
Named for real people
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

150+ five-star reviews and counting.

Real customers. Real meals.

★★★★★

“Promptly bought 2 jars of Amma's Sambal and almost cried. So flavorful and instantly took me back home.”

Keeran B.
Amma's Malaysian Sambal
★★★★★

“Hands down the best hot sauce in the YYZ!”

Kirra Peace
OG Boodoo
★★★★★

“Casper goes crazy. Rice & eggs? Casper. Pizza? Casper.”

Jose Gonzalez
Project Casper
Before you buy

Honest answers, no fluff.

How spicy is '7/10' really?

Hotter than supermarket brands, milder than extreme-challenge sauces. Most customers describe it as 'I can taste my food and still feel the burn.' Our 7/10 range (OG Boodoo, Amma's) is the sweet spot. Prefer it milder? Lime Chili is our gentlest at 3/10, with Burning Mango and Casper in the middle at 6/10.

Are LITS sauces actually vegan and gluten-free?

Yes. Every single bottle. 100% vegan, gluten-free, all-natural, low sodium. Amma's Sambal has no shrimp paste.

How fast does shipping arrive?

Ships from Ontario in 2–5 business days. Flat-rate $10 across Canada. FREE shipping on orders $50+.

I already have a lot of hot sauces. Why add LITS?

Because LITS isn't a novelty bottle: it's a daily driver. Our customers tell us they finish these first.