Chili peppers falling in slow motion through a hard shaft of light toward a jar of sambal.

Small batch, built to order

Build your own burn.

Pick chilies from across Asia, stack them however you like, and we bottle exactly that jar for you.

Open the lab See the pins

12Chili bases, eleven countries

2,200,000Top-end Scoville on the board

12Pins in the collection

25%Off when you gift three jars

Heat is only
one axis.

Scoville measures irritation, not flavor. So we publish the rest of it: how fast a chili hits, how long it stays, and where in your mouth it actually lands.

The lab

Stack it however
you want.

Every chili you add moves the heat curve and the price. There is no cap on the mix. There is only what you can finish.

Twelve jars of sambal photographed from overhead in a row. Each holds a visibly different paste, from pure red through greens to near black, under a differently coloured label band.

Chili base

Pick one or stack all twelve

Fold-ins

Texture and umami, no extra heat

Pass the jar

Gift jars discount your own

Close-up of a jar of sambal showing the coarse chili paste through the glass.

Pick a chili base to start building. The numbers move as you go.

Built in one kitchen, one jar at a time.

Nothing is pre-blended. Your jar is mixed after you order it.

Twelve pins.
Earn them by eating.

Pins are not sold. Each one has a recipe rule, and you earn it by ordering a jar that meets the rule.

An open shipping box holding a jar of sambal and a black card with two enamel pin badges attached.

Build

Each pin has a recipe rule. The wall below lights up the moment your mix meets one.

Order

Every pin your jar earned is packed in the box with it. No extra charge, nothing to claim.

Post

Send us a photo of you eating it and your pins go up on the Hall of Fame with your name.

0 of 12

earned so far. Pick chilies in the lab and these light up as you qualify.

Back to the lab

Pass the jar,
pay less.

Build a second jar for someone else and your own jar gets cheaper. Send more, save more. They get to pick their own chilies.

Two Sambalab jars side by side on a cobalt backdrop, one tied with a magenta ribbon next to a folded note card.

Build theirs next to yours

Same lab, second jar. Put in the chilies you think they can handle, or send them a link and let them pick.

We ship it with your note

Their jar goes out to their address with a hand-written card and the pin their build unlocked.

Your discount lands at checkout

One gift takes 15% off your own jar. Two takes 20%. Three or more takes 25% and unlocks the Double Dare pin.

Build a gift jar

Hall of fame

The people who
finished it.

Send us the photo of you eating what you built. We send back the pin and put you on the wall.

Zola Whitfield laughing while lifting chili-oiled noodles out of a bowl. — Zola WhitfieldAtlanta GA
Rawit and gochugaru, heavy on the crisp shallot.
**3 pins**

Marco Delgadillo sweating and grinning while holding a chili-lacquered chicken wing. — Marco DelgadilloSan Antonio TX
Eight bases in one jar. Finished it in nine days.
**7 pins**

Hyeri Bang and Callum Pryce leaning together and laughing over street tacos loaded with red chili sauce. — Hyeri Bang and Callum PrycePortland OR
Two jars, gifted to each other. Habanero versus yuzu.
**4 pins**

Vikram Sathe raising an eyebrow while holding a soup dumpling loaded with red chili crisp. — Vikram SatheJersey City NJ
Bhut jolokia and shrimp paste. Says it is a breakfast jar.
**6 pins**

Linh Tran laughing with her head tipped back, holding a bowl of pho with a spoon of sambal over the broth. — Linh TranHouston TX
Facing heaven and anchovy. Straight into the pho.
**2 pins**

Wes Kolditz wincing and laughing while eating a folded slice of pizza covered in chili crisp. — Wes KolditzChicago IL
Habanero and jolokia. Put it on pizza. Regrets nothing.
**5 pins**

Remedios Bacani laughing while spooning sambal onto a plate of rice and grilled fish. — Remedios BacaniDaly City CA
Gochugaru and shrimp paste. Has gifted eleven jars.
**8 pins**

Your turn

Tag your photo and we will pull it onto the wall with your pins.

Send a photo

Talk to us.

Custom blends, restaurant volume, a pin that went missing, or a photo for the wall. It all comes to the same three of us.

General: hello@sambalab.co
Wholesale and restaurants: kitchen@sambalab.co
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