One of the more interesting bouts of tasting we had back at ZestFest was this treasure called Tarka Masala, courtesy of the great folks at Kaurina’s. Kaurina’s won a Golden Chile award for their Pistachio Almond Kulfi, but they should have won one for this concoction as well. As it stands, Tarka Masala [...]

We were nearing the end of the shelf-life for our current bottles of DEFCON wing sauce, when we decided it was time to go ahead and whip up a batch of wings over the weekend. One problem was thta we had slightly too much sauce and not enough wings. Rather than take a [...]

We are honored and pleased to present a guest writer for us here at The Hot Zone Online. If you’re in the hot & spicy food business, it would be challenging NOT to know who Jim Campbell is. Besides being the owner & proprietor of the Mild to Wild Pepper Co. (which has [...]

Marie Sharp’s Orange Pulp Habanero Pepper Sauce Ingredients: Select yellow habanero peppers, orange pulp, onions, key lime juice, vinegar, garlic, and salt.
I saw Joe’s recent review of Marie Sharp’s Grapefruit Pulp Habanero Sauce and realized what a strange coincidence had happened. I too had just picked up one of Marie Sharp’s products just last week. [...]

Linda pointed out an article to me that I couldn’t just let slip by. I hope this is something that our chilehead followers will weigh in with their comments. On Dr. Gupta’s CNN blog, he recently published an entry called:

There’s more to hot sauce than just heat
In one part of his article, he [...]

I always approach one of CaJohns’ hot sauces with a sense of anticipation because they have always been good. That said, this sauce given to me by CaJohn was one I really wanted to try out because I have had pretty good tasting experience with chocolate habanero sauces. For those who may not [...]

While this info is not purely aimed at the chile pepper horticulturists amongst us, there is definitely an industry bent about this conference as well. We’d definitely attend if we had the chance. Here’s the info:
Annual chile conference set for Feb. 5-6
New Mexico Business Weekly – 11:58 AM MST Wednesday
by NMBW Staff
The 26th [...]

I saw this bottle of hot sauce while traveling last year, and was inspired to bring it home. After years of collecting and buying a lot of hot sauce, I have learned how to spot the clones. You know the clones…those hot sauces with roughly the same ingredients that come in bottles with [...]

Just thought we would point out another tweak to our blog’s design format. On the right sidebar in the About Us section, we have changed the post we did formerly called “About Our Authors” into giving each of our authors their own page. Now it’s easier to find out info about any of [...]

If Paul Newman can make just about anything on the grocery store shelves, then dammit…Dexter Holland from the Offspring can make salsa and hot sauce. Odds are it’s probably better as well. If we see some in our ‘hood, we’ll pick some up and report on it. For now, here’s a few [...]