Ketchup

Proper ketchup is a slow-cooked tomato sauce built on real tomato, vinegar and spice, reduced down thick and glossy rather than thinned out and sugar-forward like the stuff that separates in a supermarket bottle. It's the squeeze for hot chips, a snag off the barbie, meat pies and sausage rolls, a bacon-and-egg roll, or a proper burger, anywhere a real tomato hit needs to sit on top of the food rather than drown it.

Start with Fancy Hank's Tomato Sauce, built from Hank's grandma's recipe with 69% real diced tomato plus beetroot and tamarind for a rounder, earthier finish, or its Filipino-style cousin Fancy Hank's Banana Ketchup Sauce, which swaps in Aussie bananas for the sweet, floral trick that started when tomatoes ran short.

BBQ Mafia's Mademan Grill Ketchup takes the richer, grill-built route, Heavenly Hell's Draculas Dreams Smoky Chipotle Ketchup layers in real woodsmoke and a mild chipotle warmth, and Uncle Mungo's Habanero Ketchup pushes it further still with a genuine habanero kick.

Heat runs the full range here, from Fancy Hank's two no-heat classics through Heavenly Hell's mild smoky warmth to Uncle Mungo's proper habanero bite, and every bottle on this page is made right here in Australia. Proper tomatoes, properly reduced.

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