Nothing says Halloween like getting a new Reserve from Blair in the mail! This year’s Halloween Reserve is in the new “big” style with the cool orange wax, and will make a great new add to our collection. But wait, there’s more…

There is a great void in the hot sauce world. Somewhere between the heat of the jalapeno/chipotle and that of the habanero, there seems to be a dearth of sauces that can offer the flavor and medium heat that will appeal to a majority of people. (That is, unless your company is McIlhenny.) [...]

The label for this fine sauce reads:
Chuk Hell’s Smokin’ Hot Sauce
Smoked Habanero Sauce with Tequila
I was lucky enough to get a jar of this sauce right before we left for ZestFest in September, but hadn’t been able to sit down and put thoughts to paper (or in this case, computer screen) about it. Had [...]

Ingredients: Habanero peppers, tomatoes, onion, carrots, garlic, cilantro, vinegar, pasilla peppers, lime juice, mesquite smoked flavoring, salt, pepper, oregano, xanthan gum, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate.
John Cuda over at Barra Cudda Enterprises was gracious enough to send me a sample bottle of their new hot sauce, entitled Stairway To Hell. Since BCE is an agency specializing [...]

I was having a phone conversation with one of my new chilehead compatriots last night, and we talked about some similar desires about having our own hot & spicy food business. For me, it’s a hot sauce shop. Not an online retailership, mind you, but a real brick & mortar business where I [...]

Up until now, we here at the HZOB haven’t had too much to say about BBQ sauce. The fact is, that we’ve been generally so disenchanted with anything store-bought which has been essentially glorified ketchup with smoke flavoring that we’ve avoided the topic altogether. Even BBQ sauces that have claimed to be spicy [...]

We have our cabinet o’ sauces where we keep quite a few, open & unopened, hot sauces and other goodies that are pretty stable at room temperature. However, we’re also greeted with a wide variety of stuff that’s been hanging out in our fridge getting used a little at a time. Here’s some [...]

I just received word that a show has aired on the BBC in England that announced the results of an HPLC test done on Naga Dorset peppers grown by BBC “Gardeners’ World”. The group took to the airwaves on Friday to announce the results live.
According to Joy and Michael’s Website, the peppers grown by Gardeners’ [...]

Just to have a little roll-call, here is a short bio on each of this blog’s writers:
Joe Levinson is a resident of Columbus, OH after spending many years living in both Kentucky and Florida. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Kentucky, and he’s a maniacal, rabid fan of UK basketball. Joe [...]

About time to update our mission statement…
So what’s this blog all about, anyway?
This blog was born March 26, 2005 out of a personal website that we had been doing for almost a year previous where we paid homage to our favorite hot sauce makers, showed off our hot sauce collection, and just generally ruminated about [...]