The deadline for posting your caption for the contest is 11am, Eastern time, on Friday February 23. The top 5 entries will be posted, along with the overall winner, in the late afternoon the same day. We’re shooting for a 6pm EST announcement, so stay locked in for that on Friday.

Pepper Pete’s Mean and Green Ingredients: Fresh roasted Jalapeno peppers and other select peppers, distilled vinegar, fresh garlic, natural spices.
Pepper Pete’s Devil Dare Ya Ingredients: Fresh Habaneros and other select peppers, distilled vinegar, raisins, and natural spices.
The kind folk’s over at The Pepper Source sent me two unique hot sauces for me to try out. [...]

Well, it falls to me to report the story of this year’s North Market Chile Pepper Eating Contest. Like last year’s contest, I tried to capture the images of what I experienced along the way, but I’m not quite sure that I can fully describe the searing pain of what happened. Let’s start [...]

Word just in from Brian Moon about his latest collectible. We really thought the one from ZestFest was tres cool, so we recommend them highly. See the info below:
Loco Luna Gourmet Foods Fiery Foods Show Collectible
Loco Luna Gourmet Foods, makers of the Lava line of gourmet hot sauces, proudly announces its 2007 New [...]

We have been trying to figure out a good way to help financially support this blog. While we don’t have a lot of overhead costs, we do accrue such things as ongoing design fees, technical support, and continued tweaks to the site’s functionality. We are hoping to make up for the costs of [...]

While we have our share of hot & spicy stuff made here in the central part of Ohio (see CaJohn, Montezuma, Gecko Gary), we wanted to point out some yummy goodness made down in Chillicothe, Ohio. Chillicothe is south of Columbus by an hour or so, and is home to Ben’s Sweet & Hot [...]

Blair’s Jalapeno Death Sauce Ingredients: Fresh Jalapeno chilies, vinegar, tomatillos, fresh garlic, key lime juice, shallots, olive oil, sea salt, cilantro, cane sugar, onions, tequila, spices, xanathan gum.
Leave it to Blair to create a sauce with this many complex ingredients. From the color, to the taste, this is one really green sauce. Blame the tomatillos, [...]

This shameless picture was captured of CaJohn as he was in the midst of the Professional Chili Challenge as he dueled with other chili chefs for the championship for 2007. While he didn’t triumph (more on that later), it can be said that only he can wear something like this and get away with [...]

The mind boggles.
I was given a link to a newspaper article that appeared recently in the Las Cruces Sun-News. Apparently, Dr. Paul Bosland, a New Mexico State University professor has “discovered” the World’s hottest pepper. You can read the article here: Las Cruces Sun-News
For starters, Frontal Agri-tech, the people that Dr. Bosland got the pepper [...]

Yet another reason why Chile Pepper Magazine’s annual Hot Sauce issue is one of our favorites, this most recent issue features a Fireside Chat with us about our blog, opinions, and the world of hot sauce. We were pleased that they pretty much published the whole list of Q &A without a whole lot [...]