{"id":17939,"date":"2021-05-15T03:56:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T22:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.instamojo.com\/blog\/?p=17939"},"modified":"2021-12-15T19:02:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T13:32:39","slug":"wood-street-sauce-how-a-chef-made-cooking-at-home-fun-with-a-thriving-sauce-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.instamojo.com\/blog\/wood-street-sauce-how-a-chef-made-cooking-at-home-fun-with-a-thriving-sauce-business\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Chef made cooking at home fun with a thriving sauce business"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pandemic shut down many businesses, and one of the hardest hit was the restaurant sector. Kitchens closed down and chefs put their tools away and for a minute, things looked bleak. However, the pandemic introduced the subtle art of selling food online – simply because people needed to eat. While one section of the world took to making ‘Dalgona coffee’, professional home chefs began to concoct recipes in their personal kitchens and started delivering food to friends and loyal customers.<\/p>\n

Chef Karan Upmanyu was one of them. His business ‘Wood Street Sauce Co<\/a>.’<\/span><\/strong> is encouraging people trapped in their homes to brush up their cooking skills and enjoy delicious food with his homemade sauces.<\/p>\n

We came across Chef Karan’s online store and got a story cooking simply with the beautiful photos of the sauces they sell.<\/p>\n

We got in touch with Karan to learn more about Wood Street Sauce Co and how he grew his business online during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

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Chef Karan Upmanyu – Founder, Wood Street Sauce Co.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The story behind Wood Street Sauce Co<\/strong><\/h2>\n

“Wood Street Sauce Co. is a ‘pandemic\u00a0baby’. I came to Bangalore on a holiday and fell in love with the city, the people, the weather, and its food, and decided to live and work here.<\/p>\n

I work as a chef at a restaurant in the city, but when operations slowed down during the pandemic and the consequent lockdown I wanted to keep cooking. For a while, I had the desire to create something where I could experiment during my time off; where I could offer something interesting and delicious to the city I now call home.”<\/p>\n

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While it started as a passion project, the desire is to grow it into a proper homegrown, small business.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Want to start selling food online like chef Karan? Refer to our guide here to know more.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

Their complete range of sauces\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

At Wood Street Sauce Co., they make pantry staples; sauces and condiments that are novel enough to spice up any dish or meal, yet accessible enough that you want to have a jar or two at home at all times! Most of their sauces work well as both ingredients to cook with, and as sauces that you can simply spoon out of the jar and eat along with a snack.<\/p>\n

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The XOXO homemade sauce by Wood Street Sauce Co<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Their current pantry list selection includes Asian-inspired flavours with locally sourced ingredients. Their four regular offerings are Black Pepper Wok Sauce, Fermented Fresno Chilli Sauce, XOXO Sauce (inspired by Hong Kong XO- but with Bangalore ham and dried shrimp), and Guizhou-style Chilli Crisp (which is different from Sichuan-style chilli oil).”<\/p>\n

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Wood Street Sauce Co offer a new condiment for a limited period every few weeks.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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