Holy cacao!
chef tom gumpel has reinvented the way we cook
The spice is IN THE seaR And the juice is in the steak.
People fill a pan with butter or oils. They sprinkle spices on meats or veggies. The spiced food goes in the oiled pan and the flavorful juices start running out, along with the spices.
That’s messed up! But it’s the way it has always been done.
Enter Chef Tom Gumpel - a former dean at the Culinary Institute of America - who took the fat that comes from chocolate, mixed it with spices and invented a whole new way to cook. The healthy fat covers and seals the food and when it gets hot, it sears it all. The juices stay in and the flavor stays on.
HOLY CACAO! It’s Gumpel’s Searing Spices.
LOCK IN FLAVOR
LOSE THE OIL!
Because you won’t need butter or oil in the pan!
We created Gumpel’s Searing Spices™ by blending together our own plant-powered fats and custom spice blends. Gumpel’s Searing Spices™ are the only spices - anywhere - with the fat and the flavor blended together.
Our proprietary cacao butter is a healthier fat, with a higher burn point that lets you cook at a hotter temperature, for a better sear. Flavors, nutrients, and moisture all stay locked in, for better taste and a higher cooked weight.
LOCK IT IN WITH A BETTER SEAR
Our cacao butter has a burn temperature above olive oil, animal butters and even peanut oil. It gives you a perfect sear, with no burn. That leaves all the flavors locked inside, so meats and vegetables taste like no other.
A HEALTHIer Fat
Grown in equatorial climates, cacao trees produce pods of cacao seeds, or beans. We take the fat from those beans, and use it as the foundation for all of our spice blends. Our cacao-based fat not only cooks better, it’s healthier than other fats and oils.
A HIGHER COOKED WEIGHT
Gumpel’s Searing Spices™ allow for a higher cooking temperature, and a faster sear. A faster sear means more moisture stays inside, for juicier meats, and a higher retained weight after cooking.
Our Spice BLENDs
Blending the perfect combinations of spices and then blending again with our incredible crystalized cacao butter. Gumpel’s™ is truly different and differentiated in your kitchen. Yes, like other spices you use it to add flavor, but with Gumpel’s™ you lock the flavor in.
all natural
PLANT-BASED
We derive the foundation of every spice blend we make at Gumpel’s Searing Spices™ from the pods of the cacao plant. We grow, harvest, dry, and package our cacao pod butters with all natural processes. We use no additives, no preservatives, and no chemicals. Our hand-picked herbs and spices are just as pure, making Gumpel’s Searing Spices™ as clean and healthy as you can get.
SMALL-BATCH
It makes a difference. Working carefully by hand to mix a truly unique blend with just the right amounts of the fat that sears and the spices that flavor. We source only the best, freshest ingredients and we take our time. Gumpel’s Searing Spices™. Not just good. Small-batch good.
CHEF-DRIVEN
This defines us. We are a line of searing spices developed by chefs, for chefs. With an understanding of flavors and complexities of taste, we blended until we had it just right. But we’re not done. We are always busy in the test kitchens - working on blends that deliver on the palette while creating the perfect sear over the flame.