Pineapple

Pineapple earns its place on the grill long before it ever lands in a hot sauce bottle — the sugars caramelise fast under direct heat, which is why so many of these glazes and sauces are built around a charred, cooked-down pineapple base rather than the raw fruit alone. It's built for glazing ham and pork ribs in the final minutes on the barbecue, brushing over grilled chicken, or finishing tacos and seafood where you want sweet heat instead of straight vinegar running through the sauce.

Start with Kosmos Q's Pineapple Heat BBQ Glaze for a US-import finishing glaze that goes straight onto ham and ribs, Fancy Hanks' Pineapple Reaper Hot Sauce if you want real heat behind the sweetness, or Danny Balboas' Snake Oil for a jalapeno, pineapple and lime hot sauce built for tacos and seafood.

It runs from a no-heat finishing glaze right through to Carolina Reaper, and most bottles lean gluten free, so there's a genuine pineapple option for a kids' plate or a proper chilli head at the same table.

A few solid ways to put a charred pineapple hit on the plate, all genuinely stocked. Char it, glaze it, don't waste it.

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