Not the ‘Final Four,’ mind you, but the fourth in their installment of their ZERO collectible items. For those of you interested, here are the details from the Creator himself…
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Not being able to go to the last Fiery Foods Show put us in a tizzy about the Danny Cash stuff. We so wanted to be able to pick up some of their stuff, especially since Chuk got to do the Featured Product writeup of the DC products. So, we picked up a couple of items for the collectible shelf and a few that we’ll be tasting and reviewing in the upcoming weeks. Danny was also kind enough to make a Naga Sabi bomb available, so we may have to let the bomb go off in our house. We don’t think this one was signed and numbered, so we won’t feel the sting of opening a collectible to give it a try. Banzai!!!

We ran across this restaurant review in a recent edition of the online L.A. Weekly, and the description (although from an admitted non-chilehead) was fascinating and alluring. Suffice to say, we hope that our resident Californian chilehead Jon Passow can find his way to this place and give us a full report. Check it out, dude!

Red Menace

Orochon Ramen’s Special 2: Eat at your own risk
By JONATHAN GOLD
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 12:00 pm

I’d like to begin this week’s column by pointing out that while I enjoy a certain level of heat in my food, I’m not a chilehead, not a real one anyway. A roasted habanero is delicious in its place, and I enjoy the more emphatic aspects of Thai cooking, but I’m not fond of the kind of extreme sauces whose labels brag about the level of harm the contents may wreak on its fans’ gastro­intestinal systems, and I’ve never thrown a red savina chile into a stir-fry just for fun. The idea of Pure Cap, a concentrated extract of capsaicin, the chemical that makes chiles hot, is frightening. I have fallen — once — for the gag of eating a chip loaded with a quarter bottle of Dave’s Insanity Sauce, and I am here to report that it hurt, a lot. I don’t know about you, but I am persuaded that a condiment powerful enough to temporarily blind its consumers is probably a condiment one should avoid.

Click here to read the rest of this awesome review!

The contact info:

Orochon Ramen
123 S. Onizuka St., No. 303 (Weller Court),
Little Tokyo
(213) 617-1766
www.orochonramen.com.

Open daily, 11:30 a.m.-10:15 p.m. MasterCard and Visa accepted, minimum $20. Beer and sake. Takeout. Lunch or dinner for two, food only, $13-$20. Recommended dish: ramen.

I can’t remember a time that I’ve tasted any hot sauces not made in the Americas. Linda and I lived in Belgium for nearly one year, and the only way we were able to have hot sauce over there was to bring it over there ourselves…which is a real trick if you go through as much hot sauce as we do.

In Norway, we sad some stuff called hvitløk, which is translated to garlic in English, but was really a spicy garlicky pepper mash that we used to make some meatloaf for some of Linda’s relatives during our visit there. (Can you believe that meatloaf was the “traditional” American dish we decided to make for them?) Our spicy options were severely limited, and we were so starved for hot sauce that even regular Tabasco sauce seemed like a real treat.

Enter our new chilehead compadres from Sweden, Ewa and Goran. I guess it’s realistic to think that there were some hot and spicy food aficionados over there…but we just didn’t run across any in our travels. Boy, how things have changed thanks to the Internet!

Part of our hot and spicy food care package was this small greenish bottle simply labeled as “Hot Sauce,” featuring the label with Chili the boerboel’s face & head on it. Checking the cheat sheet that came in the package, I saw that it was composed of this: » Continue Reading

We were as thrilled as could be recently when we got a big box of hot and spicy goodies from our friends Ewa and Goran from overseas in Sweden. Through a contest done on another site which Linda runs, Ewa had won the grand prize. In true chilehead fashion, we decided to send her an all-star lineup of hot sauces and other goodies since her access to that sort of chilehead swag is fairly limited. In return, we received a pretty wonderful collection of stuff which you can see from these pics:
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Drat! We missed the chance to go to Napa Valley to be part of this event, and this sorta story makes us sad that we didn’t go. That, plus how cool would it have been to hang out in Napa Valley and drink a little wine while we try out some mustard?!

357 Extreme Mustard Wins the Gold Medal in the Napa Valley Mustard Festival World-Wide Mustard Competition

Ashley Food Company’s 357 Mad Dog Extreme Mustard won the gold medal for Best Mustard Base Hot Sauce at the Napa Valley Mustard Festival, competing against over 350 entries. 357 EXTREME MAD DOG MUSTARD sets off fireworks in hot dogs, burgers, grill and meats; dips, dressings, marinades and sides. This mustard’s versatility goes everywhere, from brown bag lunches to Asian specialties and fusion sauces. Whether you bathe foods in it, or “a little dab’ll do ya’”, this indulgence will quickly become a staple in your refrigerator.

Sudbury, M (PRWEB) March 26, 2007 — Ashley Food Company’s 357 Mad Dog Extreme Mustard won the gold medal for Best Mustard Base Hot Sauce at the Napa Valley Mustard Festival, competing against over 350 entries.

Mustard users and mustard non-users become “mustard maniacs” with this outstanding condiment that features real Colman’s English Mustard, fresh Habanero peppers, fresh ground horse radish, and the hugely popular turmeric. Monster heat marries absolutely voluptuous flavour and results in 360 degrees of complex, full-bodied ecstasy. Walloping scovilles of heat wash over the taste buds, and leave a lingering afterglow of heat and flavour. The color is brilliant ochre, the texture stout, and the aroma alone will blow the cobwebs from your head and blast you into an altered state - a galaxy away from regular yellow mustards.

Award-winning Ashley Foods’ sauces are made with nothing but top-line, all-natural ingredients from around the world: aged Japanese Tamari sauce, African Chiles, unsulphered molasses and extracts, and fresh Habaneros, Jalapenos, cilantro, lime, onion, garlic and more… all sauces are free of nasty preservatives, crafted in small batches with insane devotion and attention to detail. Other sauces available: 357 Mad Dog Extreme Mustard “World’s hottest hot sauce”, Mad Dog BBQs, Mad Cat Habanero, Spicy Teriyaki, Green Amigo, and Idiot Boyz, among others. The recently landed 357 Extreme Wing Sauce is flying circles of flame around all other wing sauces, offering skull-busting heat with divine flavor.

357 Mad Dog Extreme Mustard is available nationwide in specialty stores and on our web site www.ashleyfood.com. Suggested retail - 5.99 oz. bottle.

For additional information, contact:
Dave Ashley, the devoted Master Sauceman since 1991.

This press release is courtesy of PRWeb and is part of the public domain. Copies of it are freely downloadable in PDF format located HERE.

Believe it or not, but the Hot Zone Online turns two years old today!

Many of our readers don’t know that we’ve been online that long, but this blog has been steadily growing since its inception. With a couple hundred visitors per day and several writers contributing their efforts, there’s every reason to believe that the growth will continue for as long as we like doing this.

To this day, we remain as the only hot sauce & spicy food blog to be noncommercial in both design and function.

So, we’ll eat some cake, blow out our candles, and make a wish. Being two hasn’t felt this good since we were actually two. The blog uses less diapers, though….

Wow how time flies. It’s been almost two years since Joe and Linda interviewed our buddies over at Kato Productions. Mick and Rita have been turning out some great products including their newest creation, Hemi Hot Sauce, so we felt it was time to do a little catching up.

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Well, after much thought, I’ve made my decision. It was a hard one because there were a lot of really funny comments thrown out by our loyal readers. So, without further ado here are the top five in reverse order:

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Lee from Danny Cash gave me a great sauce to review when I was at the Fiery Foods Show. Danny Cash Mean Streak is a hot sauce that combines my two favorite things; Mangos and Chile Peppers!

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