Bachan's The Original Japanese Barbecue Sauce, 17 oz
Bachan's The Original Japanese Barbecue Sauce, 17 oz
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Bachan's The Original Japanese Barbecue Sauce, 17 oz

$13.00

Umami-heavy and teriyaki-adjacent, and the reason it tastes different from everything near it on the shelf is that it is cold-filled rather than pasteurised and thinned. Justin Gill went through 49 formulations to get a shelf-stable version that still tasted like his grandmother's.

Bachan means grandmother. Hers was Judy Yokoyama, and the sauce was a holiday ritual in Sebastopol long before it was a product.

17 oz squeeze bottle.
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Bachan's The Original Japanese Barbecue Sauce, 17 oz
$13.00

The Brand

Bachan's

Bachan is grandmother. Judy Yokoyama was born in Sebastopol, California in 1936 and spent her life there, apart from two years her family was displaced to a Japanese internment camp, where meals together were part of what held them together.

Her sauce became a family ritual. Every holiday Justin Gill's family would cook a big batch in a kettle, hand-bottle it and give it to clients of the family landscaping business. Every January people turned up at the office with the empty bottles, wanting more, or the recipe.

Turning that into a product took six years. Co-packers told Justin to pasteurise it and water it down to hit a price, and doing so wrecked it, so he worked out the formulation himself: 49 attempts before he had a cold-filled version that was shelf stable and still tasted like the kettle. It launched in 2019 and is now the best-selling barbecue sauce on Amazon.

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