Sauces are hard to get right in small batches. A good demonstration for me was Epicurious YouTube series on 'expert guesses cheap vs expensive' for various food

Sauces are hard to get right in small batches. A good demonstration for me was Epicurious YouTube series on 'expert guesses cheap vs expensive' for various foods. The one for hot sauce [0] is basically the only one in this series where the 'expert' often preferred cheaper items to the more expensive - basically as some of the small batch ones werent as carefully flavor balanced [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVRl8VzQMQM&t=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVRl8VzQMQM&t=1