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Crafted on Lopez Island since 2007

A hot sauce that makes good food taste better.

Medium heat. Deep flavor. Built from three superfoods — smoky chipotle, raw cacao, and ruby goji berries — into a sauce that weaves sweet, sour, salt, bitter, savory and spicy into a single drop.

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Organic Vegan Gluten-Free GMO-Free Paleo & Low-FODMAP
Two bottles of Chicaoji chipotle chile sauce with cacao and goji berries on a rustic wood table
The Ingredients

Three superfoods, woven into one sauce.

Every bottle starts with three short, deliberate ingredients. The rest of the list is just the things that hold them together.

Smoked chipotle chilies
CHI · The Smoke

Chipotle

Slow-smoked jalapeño chilies bring the warm, woody heat that anchors the sauce — present, never punishing.

Organic cacao nibs
CAO · The Depth

Cacao

Raw cacao nibs add roasted bitterness and a quiet, complex finish — the reason Chicaoji belongs on dessert as much as dinner.

Ruby-red goji berries
JI · The Sweet

Goji

Ruby-red goji berries lend a natural sweetness and the antioxidant-rich body of one of the world's oldest tonic foods.

The Flavor Profile

Every taste your tongue knows, in one bottle.

Most hot sauces pick a lane — vinegary, fiery, or sweet. Chicaoji refuses. It draws on every taste your palate recognizes and braids them together so no single note overwhelms the others.

The result is a condiment that pairs with breakfast eggs and chocolate brownies, with hummus and grilled salmon, with the inside of a sandwich and the top of a salad.

"Chicaoji deliciously weaves together sweet, sour, salt, bitter, savory and spicy."

Pronounced
Chick · OW · gee
The name is a portrait of the bottle.
CHIpotle + caCAO + goJI = Chicaoji
Chicaoji 5 oz and 12 oz bottles on a table
Since 2007
Lopez Island, WA
Our Story

Born in a juice bar, guided by an idea.

"Food is medicine." Chicaoji was built on that single principle — that what you eat is supposed to nourish you, not just fill you.

Created in the summer of 2007 by Randall Waugh with the community at the Vortex Juice Bar & Cafe on Lopez Island, Washington, Chicaoji began as a question: could a hot sauce do more than just heat?

The answer is in every drop. Three superfoods. No preservatives, no flavorings, no colorings, no additives of any kind.

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Organic
Vgn.
Vegan
GF
Gluten Free
non
GMO Free
Pal.
Paleo
Low
FODMAP
How to Use It

Good on everything. Surprising on a few.

Chicaoji works as a condiment and as an ingredient — equally at home glazing salmon and folding into brownies.

Chicaoji on a breakfast plate 01
Breakfast

A drop on the morning plate

 Chicaoji drizzled over a fresh salad 02
Fresh

Over a garden salad

 Chicaoji shared at a Lopez Island lunch 03
Gatherings

Passed around the table
From the Blog

Recipes from the Chicaoji kitchen.

Real cooks, real plates. A few favorite ways people put Chicaoji to work — from weeknight salmon to (yes) chocolate pudding.

Chicaoji glazed salmon
Main

Chicaoji Glazed Salmon

A quick, easy way to get dinner on the table fast — salmon under a goji-cacao-chipotle glaze.

Jon P. · Feb 2023Read recipe →
Chicaoji viva brownies
Dessert

Chicaoji Viva Brownies

Bitter chocolate, coconut butter, and a teaspoon of Chicaoji turn an ordinary brownie into something special.

Stephanie · Feb 2023Read recipe →
Chicaoji chocolate pudding
Dessert

Chicaoji Chocolate Pudding

"Sounds crazy, right? It's worth a try." A 20-minute dessert of cacao, maple, and Chicaoji.

Sarah · Jan 2023Read recipe →
Jack's fiesta Chicaoji stew
Main

Jack's Fiesta Vegetarian Stew

A weekly-stew project gone spicy — a fiesta of fresh peppers and, of course, Chicaoji.

Jack H. & Isaac · Jan 2023Read recipe →
Jon's Chicaoji hummus
Snack

Jon's Chicaoji Hummus

Homemade hummus with a kick — garbanzos blended smooth with sesame oil and Chicaoji to taste.

Sarah · Jul 2022Read recipe →
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"It tastes like something a grandmother in three different countries invented together. We put it on eggs, in stew, on chocolate. There is no wrong place for this sauce."
— A devoted Chicaoji household
The Lineup

Bring Chicaoji to your table.

From a two-bottle starter to the gallon jug that keeps a busy kitchen running. Online ordering is open.

Two 12 oz bottles of Chicaoji
Everyday

2 × 12 oz Bottles

The household pair — one for the kitchen, one for the table.

$28.00
Case of twelve 12 oz Chicaoji bottles
Share & Save

Case · 12 × 12 oz

Share with family & friends. Best value by the bottle.

$162.00
One gallon jug of Chicaoji sauce
Devotee

Gallon Jug

Refill your own bottle. The best price per ounce.

$99.00
Get in Touch

Questions, wholesale, or hello.

Order right here on the page anytime. For everything else — wholesale, partnerships, or kitchen confessions — reach us on Lopez Island.

Reach the Kitchen

Talk to us directly.

The fastest way to reach us is by phone or mail. We read every message.

Phone
360-468-4372
Mailing Address
Chicaoji · Waugh Enterprises LLC
P.O. Box 691
Lopez Island, WA 98261
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@chicaoji on Instagram, Facebook & X
Ordering & Shipping

Made on the island, shipped to you.

Order any size right here on the page. Every bottle ships direct from Lopez Island, Washington.

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