The Hot Zone Online

Entries for April, 2006

Good wings in The First State

Now this article about chicken wings made us want to do a little road trip to Delaware! The author ponders this thought:
Would I turn into a Buffalo wing if I ate enough of them? I’m here to tell you that ain’t nothing but a chicken wing on a string.
There’s a few reviews/descriptions of some wing [...]

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Chili cookoffs, and why they’re cool

Every year in the past six, save one, we’ve had our own chili cookoff. The whole idea started out as a common birthday party, since our birthdays are three days apart. Then it went to a one-upmanship of who could make better chili…and the obligatory laying down the gauntlet that followed. Eventually, we decided to [...]

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A New Pepper on the Scene

A new pepper available? HOLD THE PRESSES! All we need now is our fervent chile pepper horticulturalists to start spreading the seeds (literally) around so there can be some more information on how well it grows, best climate, average length of time before harvest, etc. It really looks like a cherry pepper, but with a [...]

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Homemade Sauce Review: Capitol Punishment sauces

Rather than just post them one at a time to drive our buddy Gordon crazy, we have four of the reviews of the homemade Capitol Punishment sauces all in one big post. We reviewed the first one and Jim Campbell of the Mild to Wild Pepper Co. & the crew at Station 111 A-Shift Three [...]

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Some like it hot, as in habanero peppers

Great article about one of our fave chile peppers in the whole world. Article quoted in whole.
Try growing these fiery capiscums in a patio container

By Nancy O’Donnell
ALBANY TIMES-UNION
If you love habanero peppers (Capsicum chinense Jacquin aka chile pepper “Habanera” aka extremely hot), you might want to thank Christopher Columbus. Many historians believe he may be [...]

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Homemade Sauce Review: Coco Loco

This is the second entry of homemade hot sauce from Marv L. (aka Fatalliman) and this one we kept here at the HZOB for our own review of it. Marv did himself proud with his first sauce that he had reviewed here, and this one is equally as noteworthy.
(We don’t give number ratings to any [...]

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Raising Little Chileheads

Alrighty! This one is for all the chileheads with toddlers. Grab your toddler and bring them to the computer. Go to this site and choose the option “Make a Chili for Boowa and Kwala.” After that, you might want to play “Color The Lizards.”

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Hot sauce women rule!

Now THIS lady from California is one we’d like to invite over to dinner. In addition to being quite the Chilehead by collecting hot sauces and making everything she cooks as spicy as she can, she uses Da Bomb sauce in her cooking and is willing to taste on of Blair’s Reserve sauces. Our Substance [...]

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Review: CaBoom! Mandarin Orange Gourmet Salsa

When someone tells me they don’t like fruit salsas I tell them that I have a special way of using them where the full flavor of the salsa comes to life. That special way is…
nachos.
Now, I’m not talking your ordinary nachos here. No, no, no. I’m talking habanero cheddar nachos. I use my favorite chips [...]

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From home garden to store shelves and the Internet

We had posted an online article here about the fine folks at Pepper Potions, but we came to find out that that article was incredibly factually incorrect, so we yanked it from this site entirely. Below is a link about Pepper Potions until we can re-post the new (and hopefully correct) article.
Thanks to Julie Riffle [...]

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