Chili’s Fire Pit is a brick & mortar hot sauce shop located within a few miles of the shores of Lake Erie in sunny Mentor, OH…just east of Cleveland, OH. During the fall of 2004, Joe spent a month in Cleveland doing a rotation in anesthesiology at South Pointe Hospital and made several trips [...]

I’ve written this review once, but sadly it was wiped out when we had our big server crash several weeks ago. I had just enough of this sauce left to make a mini version of what I did before, which makes it perfect for a mini-review.
This isn’t a hot hot sauce like many of [...]

A weekend of football and other sports-watching on TV this past weekend seemed like a cool time to write a review on some great salsa, courtesy of Chuck Evans and his Montezuma Brand products. We met Chuck a few months ago through our buddy CaJohn, and he’s another fellow Buckeye making some damn good [...]

This is the first product we have reviewed from the folks at Garden Fresh Gourmet. These products have won, and continue to win, a ton of industry awards. We stopped by their booth at this past ZestFest, and now we understand why. As far as fresh dips & salsas go, their stuff [...]

Ingredients: Orange Habaneros, Serranos, Green Pepper, Onion, Garlic, White Vinegar, Lime Juice, Maple Syrup, El Tesoro Platinum Tequila, Basil, Sage, Kosher Salt.
Joe and Linda’s Yom Kippur Repentance Hot Sauce came in the mail the other day, which gave me ample time to give it the full work out of tests before my weekend review. What [...]

One of the interesting thing about attending ZestFest was trying a fair amount of chili mixes. As people who regularly host chili cookoffs, we have generally spurned chili mixes because we have wanted our ‘contestants’ to make their chilis from scratch. It just seems that you can take a lot more pride in [...]

Cool article quoted in part from the TCPalm, an online media outlet from Florida’s Palm Beach area:

Pepper fans can’t get enough of hot chilies
By GWEN SCHOEN
The Sacramento Bee
October 11, 2006
Chili-heads have no sympathy for those of us who live in fear of the hot pepper.
While blinking back tears, mopping sweaty brows and reaching for tissues [...]

Our inaugural Featured Retailer post is on behalf of Cosmic Chile, a great online retailer that hails out of the great state of Montana. Eric Vinje (pictured below) is the grand poobah of Cosmic Chile, and he has been a great supporter of our blog since the very beginning. Cosmic Chile offers a [...]

Announcing a change to our blog format…
We’ve abolished our old “Retailers” section that we have had since this blog first started. If your favorite retailer was on there (or even if it was you), we’re sorry but it was time for a change. So, we went back to the drawing board and wiped [...]

This is the second mustard we’re reviewing from ZestFest, courtesy of the Mount Horeb Mustard Museum. Unlike the one we previously reviewed which had a habanero kick to it, this one’s heavy on the horseradish. It’s even heavier on great flavor, which we will go into further below.
An interesting sidebar about horseradish, and [...]