Paul: Have you ever heard of putting HONEY on PIZZA?
Swistle: Ug, no.
Paul: It says here people put it on Hawaiian pizza…
Swistle: Oh…well, actually I can picture it with pineapple—a sweet-and-sour thing.
Paul: Apparently it’s this whole THING. It’s called hot honey.
Swistle: Oh so like hot honey mustard, that’s different.
Paul: No, no mustard, just honey. Chili-infused honey.
Swistle: Well. Hm.
Paul: It’s Mike’s Hot Honey. It says you can also put it on fried chicken, in cocktails, and on ICE CREAM??
Swistle: WELL PUT IT ON THE LIST
Paul: I’M DOING IT
This is how we went from “GROSS” to “BUY IT” in about one minute flat, and ended up spending TEN DOLLARS on a thing of honey at the grocery store. To be fair, honey is already expensive, but STILL! We looked for it first with salsa and bbq sauces, but it was with honey and maple syrup.
We have not yet tried it. I will let you know.
I eat hot honey on leftover chicken and stuff. Pepperoni pizza sometimes. I want to like it more than I do… it just somehow doesn’t hit right for me even though it sounds like something that I’d love.
WingStop has hot honey wings and I like those better.
I love it on pizza! I am always looking for other things to use it on, but mostly pizza. I don’t even like pizza much and now am looking for excuses just because of the hot honey!
I haven’t tried this, but I’ve heard of it. I’m excited for the report.
And, um, I have a bit of a honey problem (I use it in baking and I bake all the sandwich bread, which contains honey, and the English muffins, and my tea) and you do not want to know how much I pay for honey. I think a quart is running over $20. I buy more than that, — at farms and farmer’s markets, etc — and then sort of don’t pay attention.
Currently I’m looking for powdered cheddar. I looked by the other powdery cheese, parmesan, and in the spice aisle, no dice. The internet tells me it exists. I am looking because boxes of mac and cheese (kraft, annies) have shrinkflated to the point of ridiculousness so I want to just cook a bunch of pasta and then improvise the rest.
Look by the popcorn! They sell shakers of it at our grocery store (but it might not be very cost effective)
I will! Thank you for the tip.
I can buy a pound of elbows for the price of a box of Annies ( just over 1/3 of the pasta and cheese) and that 30% pasta part is making me nuts. So, I’ll get 3xs pasta and even if the cheese part costs $1/use I’m still winning at the equivalent of 3 boxes of mac and cheese for the price of 2. If it costs $2 for the cheese portion I’m even (and that’s with Annie’s at the sale price, 1.25/box ish).
I make a mean homemade mac and cheese (Alton Brown, stovetop) but one child has declared it garbage. And both children can make the box kind mostly independently.
King Arthur Flour sells it.
https://shop.kingarthurbaking.com/items/better-cheddar-cheese-powder
I have bought powdered cheese mix online from Hoosier Hill Farm and it is very tasty. https://hoosierhillfarm.com/
Thanks!
King Arthur has a cheese powder too: https://shop.kingarthurbaking.com/items/better-cheddar-cheese-powder
I had dinner with an adventurous friend who wanted to try it at a restaurant (it was pepperoni pizza drizzled with hot honey). I was reluctant, but gave it a try, and wow! I was an instant convert. It’s SO good, IMO!
I also tried a recipe from a Tasty video that was sautéed thick zucchini slices served with crumbled feta cheese and drizzled with the hot honey. Another winner!
Hope you enjoy it!
the zucchini (a food I struggle with) recipe sounds really good.
We do oven roasted carrots or sweet potatoes, and toss in Mike’s Hot Honey at the very end. It’s delicious.
I looove Mike’sHot Honey, and am always looking for new things to put it on! My favorite breakfast is toast (like good fresh baked bread), with cottage cheese, sliced heirloom tomato and hot honey drizzled on it. So good! Also is great on cornbread and fried chicken (or your kid’s leftover chicken nuggets).
Coincidentally, I just bought the exact same bottle of hot honey yesterday, also for $10. The purchase was inspired by my son, who has ordered pizza from restaurants a few times that are garnished with a drizzle of hot honey – to him, it’s the selling point that leads him to pick those dishes to order. While shopping at our local warehouse club on Saturday, my husband and I saw a very large (i.e., warehouse club-sized) bottle of (a different brand of) hot honey, thought about buying it, and ultimately decided against it because it was $17. What if it’s terrible? That’s a waste of $17! And the big bottle will live in our tiny pantry forever! But the next day at our local grocery store we saw the more reasonably-sized Mike’s hot honey and I guess in comparison, $10 seemed like a steal :-). So into the cart it went – hoping it’s good!
By the way, when we told our son (16) that we had bought this fun condiment for home pizzas, etc, because he likes it so much at restaurants, he was flabbergasted – he thought this whole time that “hot honey” was just warmed up honey (which we could have been drizzling over pizzas any old time we wanted, what with a regular jar of honey already sitting right in our pantry) – he had no idea that in this case, hot = spicy.
I don’t know if you have Donato’s pizza chain where you live but this is their current thing–Hot Honey Pizza which I believe is pepperoni with the HH.
I’ve had honey on a pizza with goat cheese and pistachio (no marinara sauce) and it was very very good!
I’ve never had hot honey but I love chili oil drizzled on pizza (or on the side to dip the crust in) so I’m very curious to try this now. I think I’ll like it as long as it’s more spicy than sweet.
Also, I saw your thread on Twitter about masks—I too mask everywhere outside my home, and am taking other Covid precautions: namely, not eating indoors or seeing anyone from outside my household unmasked indoors unless we test/use an air purifier/open the windows/etc. I was wondering if you’d be willing to talk a little about how you’re coping with the ongoing pandemic in light of how the world seems to have “moved on.” I’ve found it increasingly isolating and frustrating and I guess I’m just looking for stories of others in a similar spot, and I always admire the perspective that you, especially, bring to things.
No pressure to speak on this if you don’t want to for any reason; I know how contentious or uncomfortable it can be. Just thought I’d throw it out there.
Going anonymous for this one :)
I’m also masking, as are my husband and children. The thought of the long term outcomes of this disease keep me doing it.
You’re not alone, though I totally understand sometimes it feels that way.
Thank you for bringing up masking. My family is also still masking indoors whenever we’re away from home and only rarely eat at a restaurant indoors. We simply want to minimize getting and spreading diseases. I’m more afraid of long-covid at this point. We still got covid last September and there’s been a lot of flu/covid/strep/rsv/colds going around our community this past winter. Also, my parents are older and they also mask the same as us and I’d feel awful if we got them sick since we visit weekly. Covid cases no longer seem to be tracked in our county, so we might start looking at wastewater covid concentrations and decide if we want to stop masking so much during the summer if it continues to drop. It’s frustrating seeing friends get sick for the 4th time this year and then never mask or change their habits. (Have you learned nothing?) On the flip side it’s often annoying and isolating being the only person in the room masking. I feel a slight stigma wearing the mask, and I can’t tell if it’s just in my head or not. The rest of my family doesn’t feel this. I just want to do my part to keep myself and others safe. Also want to give a plug for the mask brand Enro which makes very lightweight, comfortable, machine-washable masks with filters built into them.
Not to be a killjoy (because i hate those who kill joy) but you can probably make something equivalent to this out of honey + frank’s red hot. Honey + hot sauce is a thing I used to do when I was sick of everything else I could put on chicken to make it taste good, thanks for the reminder because I am officially Sick of Everything Else. And also intrigued by how Mike’s Hot Honey is different from my janky homemade version.
Full disclosure: I have a family member who is a beekeeper, so I am full to the gills with honey already, therefore just buying the hot sauce by itself isn’t a burden. We needed to find something to do with all the honey TBH because I don’t bake.
Also: INSTANT MAC N’ CHEESE SHRINKFLATION IS REAL AND MAKES ME RAGEY. I had to eat something quick between meetings the other day and was able to clang back a cup (ha!) of this right out of the microwave like I was doing a shot of SOMETHING MUCH MORE FUN.
I will happily take some of that honey off your hands if you’re within an hour of Boston. No pressure.
As a child I would sometimes make a box of mac and cheese for dinner and I would be FULL. Now it’s like 8 mouthfuls. The children make it 2 boxes at a time and eat it all.
My neighbor offered to trade for some of her chickens’ eggs, otherwise I would donate it to you! I checked my stash and I have a 2lb jar, a 1/2 lb jar and a squeezy thing (not a bear), which is not a lot of honey for those who use it on the reg, but for me it’s a LOT.
Beekeeper aside: My beekeeping relative has a beekeeping supply warehouse that used to be in Woburn but she lost her storefront during COVID. I won’t drop a link because this feels like an ad but she’s googleable, has a website and the store still shows up on mapquest. It’s Bee Season right now, meaning she’ll be distributing bees in MA at the end of April-ish.
You are here! Trading for fresh eggs is a good deal. I would totally do it if I had honey coming out my ears. You’ve got like a 2 month supply for me, maybe? idk. I don’t know how big the big jar I get from the Essex County Co-op actually is. But I’ve gone through 3 of them in the last year. (with random smaller jars in the mix)
My situation doesn’t lend itself to bees, unfortunately. but I’m totally checking this out anyway.
Beekeepers are good people. :) I think she’s disappointed that she can’t convince any family to join in the keeping of the bees. My hobbies are generally more slothful. She’s a friendly sort who will deliver honey to your house if you’re on her honey list, just be advised she might invite herself in for dinner if she finds you interesting or likes your house.
We should all give a shoutout to the beekeepers of the world! What an important job/hobby. I’m not a honey fan, but a huge fan of bees!
It is, in fact, delicious on pretty much everything.
This post + the comments section recipe ideas here are influencing me to purchase this hot honey. I’ve seen it in stores and it is an appealing color.
I love ricotta on fancy bread, drizzled with hot honey. YUM!
We have really been enjoying it. I didn’t like it much on biscuits, but it is AMAZING drizzled on Brussels sprouts that I roast off with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. So, so good.
It is ridiculously good! My husband is disgusted and won’t even try it…so more $$ hot honey for me!
We are headed to the mountains tomorrow, and I made a reservation FOR TWELVE at a local restaurant entirely based on the fact that they serve HONEY ON THEIR PIZZA – it is SO SO GOOD, and it keeps me returning every time we are in that mountain town! (I don’t know why I never thought to do this at home haha! You have inspired me! :))
Hot honey is so good. At my house it is usually served on cornbread, putting it on cheese sounds great too, I love a sweet dollop with a soft cheese. Or as a glaze for chicken. Mike’s is what I’ve tried, and I’m pretty sure I saw a larger bottle of another brand at Costco. They usually jump on the food trends with a dupe pretty quick.
That’s funny. On Saturday I was hanging out with a friend and the friend’s sick bunny, hoping we weren’t on another bunny death-watch, with a dead rat in the ceiling and a bunch of candles trying to drown out the dead rat smell. Then we went to get pizza and my friend ordered the Maui Wowy and at the last minute remembered to yell “oh, but NO HONEY DRIZZLE THIS TIME, that stuff was horrible”. I hope your opinion differs, for the sake of the money you spent on it.
Trader joes has a hot honey that is definitely cheaper than $10, but i’m very curious if it’s as good as Mike’s Hot Honey (never tried Mike’s but I do like the trader joes version). Anyone try both and have an opinion?
I love hot honey on chicken nuggets. I enjoyed eating McDonald’s chicken nuggets with honey growing up, and now I eat plant-based chick’n nuggets with Mike’s Hot Honey and it’s even better! I also like hot honey on pizza and salad with ranch.
When I was in college in the 1900’s the “nice” pizza place in town gave you honey packets to eat with the whole wheat crusts on their pizzas. Soooooo good!
I don’t even like either honey or chili separately but after reading everyone’s reports I also want to put it on the list.
SAME!
A pizza place in my town has been serving honey pizza for decades. It’s…amazing. Not hot honey, just regular honey. Super gooey, greasy cheese and honey. It’s one of the best pizzas to eat cold for breakfast.
I haven’t bought hot honey before, but I have made it for this meal and it is very good. https://www.everydaymadefresh.com/one-pan-sausage-brussels-sprouts-sweet-potato/
Incidentally I recently bought a sauce for 10 dollars (the original japanese barbecue sauce) and we are using it to add a different umami flavor to vegetable then I normally cook with. I recommend it, it’s good. I bet it would also be tasty on pizza.
Much less than $10 at Trader Joe’s. Delicious on pizza. Can also imagine it would be great on cornbread.
I want to try the honey but here it’s AUD$30 for a 12oz bottle!! (+ Postage) eeeek. I don’t know if I can do it. There is a local product that’s only (!) $17. Ingredients wildflower honey, habenero chillies, vinegar. Does that sound similar? I feel like if I don’t like it I’ll still feel compelled to try the Mike’s. Thoughts?
Mike’s Hot Honey ingredient list is just honey, chili peppers, and vinegar, though I can’t taste the vinegar. This sounds similar to your local product, so it might be worth a try!