The hot sauces from MyHotSauces.com were the first products we did a Feature on when we got this blog up & running, so we have a bit of a soft spot for Monty’s products. That being said, when he asked to give his picante sauces a try, it took us all of 1.2 seconds [...]

Coolness. The latest of Blair’s Reserves arrived on our doorstep today. It looks like this….

The fact is that gazing upon the latest addition to the collection is sorta like having an endorphin rush. An endorphin rush that costs a bit and gets more valuable with time, but good all the same. [...]

In preparation for an upcoming Feature on the Defcon wing sauces, we decided to try and make a trial run of chicken wings to see if we could make them…and make them edible.

Every batch of buffalo wings needs good sauces, and we chose three. Shown in the above picture, we opted for these for [...]

Uncle Brutha (aka Brennan Proctor) hails from the D.C. area, very close to our own former stomping grounds in Maryland. That alone makes him cool in our book. The fact that he sent us some sauces to taste makes extra, extra cool. Thanks, Uncle Brutha!

Uncle Brutha’s hot sauces are the creation of [...]

Things are going to get awfully interesting for us here at The Hot Zone Online Blog.
The fact is that we’ve been unahppy with our previous blog designer for several months now. So…to quote Donald Trump, “They’re fired.”
We have a new designer on board and we’ll be completely re-vamping the design and platform. Gone [...]

Here’s a special treat to those loyal HZOB readers out there…at least, we hope that are out there. Blair Lazar’s products have always been held in high regard by us, whether they be the tasty hot sauces or collectible items like his Reserve sauces. There are few names more recognizable in [...]

Quest for Fire: Nashville’s Hot Chicken
It all started last spring. I read an essay about a little place in Nashville called Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack.

The writer went to great lengths to describe the experience of eating hot chicken at Prince’s. Supposedly this stuff was real, REAL dang hot. To paraphrase what I remember: [...]