Specialty Crop

A wide variety of hot pepper sauces with some pretty spicy names (see the website for the full rundown of names, along with a description of each sauce), along with hot oil, spicy crackers and pretzels, hot honey, seasonings with a  peppery punch, hot mustard, candies with a kick, and gift packs.

All of the products are made with hot peppers from a local farmer, including cayenne, habanero, jalapeño, and serrano. The website includes more than 20 recipes that utilize Hot Tamn’s products.

A feature story by 101.9 KING FM in Cheyenne opens: “When she isn’t teaching algebra and trigonometry at Torrington High School, Tam McAnelly has the hottest summer job in Wyoming, traveling around the state promoting her homegrown line of sauces and seasonings, Hot Tamn’s.”

McAnelly told the station: “One year, I grew too many peppers, so I made hot sauce. I had so many bottles, I gave them away to all my friends and they kept asking for more.”

Tam has since retired from teaching, which is allowing her to spend more time in the kitchen making hot sauces and other items. In 2024, Tam introduced a new line of Hot Tamn’s products prepared by 307 Meat Co. in Laramie, including jerky, meat sticks, and summer sausage.