Hard-to-Find Ingredients at ChefShop.com

The best of the best hard-to-find ingredients from around the world to make your food taste great!

In this ever increasing mechanized world of food, it is our mission to find and bring you a little closer to the artisans who dedicate their lives to preserving food traditions. We at ChefShop are committed to finding epicurean foods, made in small batches from around the world.

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Bloody Mary Ketchup!

This Bloody Mary ketchup sends a wonderful tingle-twinge up the nostrils - it is sweet with a hint of angry - and reminds one a little of a V8. To the eye it is thinner than a "The best things come to those who wait" ketchup, and it pours quickly in a nice bright red color.

As you taste, the lips taste nothing, the tongue tingles and the back of the throat coughs! All the flavors are mixed together and come out in a racy way. In the end your lips tingly, the edges of your tongue are too and if you have enough spoonfuls your body starts to get hot!

It is delicious fun, and just right for the next dog in your life.
Shop Now for Hawkshead Bloody Mary Ketchup!

NeoCocoa Black Sesame Seed Toffee Brittle

Toffee Brittle!
with Black Sesame!
A runaway hit! One bite (bag) and you will be hooked for life! The first bite is joyous, a crunch that is easy to do, an explosion of subtle flavor of chocolate, with the toasted sesame on the edges of the tongue to tingle and espouses flavor twistys of change. There is a lot more sesame flavor than just what is on top.... (look closely at the edge and you will see the black sesame is in the toffee too!)

The enjoyment factor with a small piece is so much better because a large piece gives you a mouthful of "candy" which you consume because you are forced to chew and swallow. With a small, thumb-size piece you can taste the chocolate, enjoy the crunch of the sugar which blend with the dark chocolate and get the sesame on the edge of your tongue.

You finish with clean molars, and a lovely dark chocolate flavor that makes you want to suck in your cheeks and the sesame.

my kind of treat

"This black sesame seed toffee brittle chocolate is my kind of treat. It’s the perfect amount of sweet to feel indulgent but not guilty. The rich burnt sugar taste of the toffee is great with the black sesame crunch, pulled out with a smidge of salt. Coated in chocolate. Really good."
-- jodi
Shop Now for NeoCocoa Black Sesame Seed Toffee Brittle!

Black Garlic Ketchup
Healthy longevity comes from eating Black Garlic!

This dark, very dark gourmet ketchup is nothing like the red stuff we have used our whole lives. In fact, it does not resemble anything we have had before. Though, I am thinking that the next burger I make will have this as the condiment of excellence.

The flavor of this gourmet ketchup is not “garlic”, at least not to the taste buds. It takes some cheek smacking to get the garlic… the flavor is much more about the complete experience. You get a sweet twinge of goodness with hints of Balsamic and caramel. This is like an enhancement of black garlic in a ready to pour form!

"This was given to me as a gift, I might not have risked it but I’m so glad I have tried it now. The other night I made a pecan crusted chicken breast and smashed fried potatoes and salad. Everything was good but needed some oomph so I tried this and it went from good to great. We tried mixing with some mayonnaise and smoked chipotle Tabasco and voila, a perfect sauce for pretty much anything. The flavor is just the right level, not overbearing, but different than anything I’ve had before"

Check out the Parmigiano-Reggiano and more about the winter cheese here!

Baking
All the things you might want for baking

High-quality and hard-to-find specialty baking ingredients are all here for you to discover.

From high cocoa butter content couverture chocolates (like Valhrona and Felchlin) and Cocoa Powders, to extracts Ginger, Lime, Orange, Lemon and Chocolate, organically-grown vanilla products extracts, paste and powder, specialty sugars, hard-to-find flours, and baking ingredients from professional kitchens.

Looking for something we don't have in our online baking ingredients store? Give us a call and let us know and we will seek it out for you.

Check out the selection of baking goods!

Kishibori Shoyu
1 of only 14 artisan brewers of Japanese soy sauce

A Gem

"This is the real soy sauce, rich tasting and aromatic. The saltiness does not overwhelm, the way commercial soy sauce does. When you try this product, it's hard to go back to all the artificial-tasting ones."
-- mary

very good

"never going back to regular soy sauce. just delicious. rich."
-- alice
Shop now for Kishibori Shoyu!

"Your newsletter is very dangerous, because it makes me want to try everything" - Dee

Cold Mountain Dry Rice Koji the secret ingredient!

Easy to use with incredible results

"After hearing about Shio Koji, a lot, it was time to give it a try. With Cold Mountain Koji it was as simple as adding the Koji rice, some water and salt. After 10 days +1 it was ready. Since then I have tried it on and in just about everything. Fish, meats, vegetables, anywhere I would normally add a dash of salt, including on my eggs. The effect has ranged from subtle to profound. This is my new secret ingredient. Combine it with a good soy sauce for even more effect in stir fry or fried rice. Marinate meats before grinding them into sausage or even in burgers. The possibilities are many. If you are into fermenting then definitely give this a try. You will be back for seconds..."
-- alan

Smooth Order

"My order arrived in a timely manner. Shipping was fast. No issues with the packaging. I look forward to fermenting the rice and cooking with it in the coming weeks. Helpful instructions are included in the packaging."
-- matt

Shop Now for Cold Mountain Dry Rice Koji!

Wild-Caught Canned Tuna From the Northwest

I want to tell you a wonderful fish story....click the link below to read the story ...

Best Canned Tuna Ever *****

"I’ve tried many canned tunas, and this one is the best. It has a fresh mild flavor, with a firm flakey texture. Most canned tunas are more water than fish; a very fishy waterlogged mess in a can. This problem simply did not exist. With most canned tunas I’ve had, the only way to enjoy them is drain and squeeze out all of the water and turn it into a tuna salad. Lummi Island tuna was so good, I could enjoy it straight from the can. Lummi Island Tuna is delicious and I highly recommend it."
-- leah

Shop now for Lummi Island Wild Albacore Tuna!

Cocoa Powder 22% to 24% cocoa butter!
Wow! *****
"Was using various permutations of King Arthur Cocoas. Just tried this in my usually very good cocoa brownies. I could smell and taste the difference immediately. Revelation! Will never use another cocoa. This is THE BEST!"
-- joan Check it out here.

"Whomever writes the newsletter is wicked - too many temptations!" - Mary

Give the gift of food
Share your favorite foods with your peoples. You know they love to cook but haven't a clue what's in their pantry? Let them decide!

Share your love and give the love of food!

"For the breadth and quality of its offerings, nothing equals ChefShop.com. In addition to well-chosen examples of an Italian kitchen's staples... there are excellent products from other parts of the world and, in season, fresh salmon from the Northwest, plus an item that has all but disappeared from neighborhood markets, genuinely tree-ripened, sugary fruits."
- Marcella & Victor Hazan

At Chefshop.com we search the world to find the best of the best, from Baking Chocolate to Estate Grown first press Extra Virgin Olive Oils. We search the world to find and source hard-to-find foods created by family owned producers, like ourselves, to share with you.

We taste test, cook test and eat everything we sell.