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Entries for March, 2007

CaJohn’s “Frostbite” to be on Food Network this week!

CaJohn gave us a heads-up that his Frostbite hot sauce will be featured on this week’s Unwrapped show on the Food Network. He does go on to say that they “took a few liberties with the extract part of the show.” and that “they show us processing some jalapenos for mash and turned it [...]

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“Old School” Hot Sauce by Urban Chefs

This our third hot sauce review from the folks at Urban Chefs. After tasting this sauce, and looking at most of the others, one thing becomes pretty obvious.
These aren’t complicated sauces.
There are no shortage of sauces out there with long ingredients lists. Fancy fru-fru stuff, thickening agents (yes you, xantham gum), and preservatives [...]

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Poll Results: What is your favorite pepper in a hot sauce?

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Weekend of Fire and site updates – March 23

We added a feature to this site which will allow you to print the text and pictures to any post you want. Simply click on the Print This Post link above the title to any of the posts and you will be taken to a more printer-friendly version of the post that doesn’t have [...]

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When being called ‘Bonehead’ really works for you

If you’re lucky enough to live in select parts of Georgia and Florida, you might have access to the Boneheads Grilled Fish and Piri Piri Chicken franchise, which is starting to make some progress at expanding. Featuring menu items that are spicy (and spicier), it looks like a place we would love to try. [...]

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Caption This: Passow Meets the Atomic Wedgie

Here’s the latest in our Caption This! contests, courtesy (and at the expense of) our intrepid reporter, Jon Passow.
Jon had a lot of fun at this past Fiery Foods Show in Albuquerque, NM. A little too much fun, sometimes. Here you can see Pepperman and Danny Cash inflicting an “atomic wedgie” on Jon, [...]

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Passow Chews on some Jersey Jerky

I met up with Doug from Jersey Boyz Jerky when I was at the Fiery Foods Show and he slipped me something under the table. Fearing that it was a mafia bribe I looked at my hand, I was close in my fears. Doug had given me their new product, Jersey Boyz Habanero Dusted Beef [...]

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Soulvicious Hot Sauce by Urban Chefs

Our tour of the hot sauces from Urban Chefs continues with a stop for the Soulvicious Hot Sauce, a chocolate habanero hot sauce with a twist. Our experience with chocolate habanero sauces have been uniformly positive, so we expected no different with this one. Usually, they have a tendency to be slightly hotter [...]

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Poll Results: For those who collect, whose collectible sauce was the first one you owned?

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Spicy Cocktail Salsa by My Favorite New Mexico Foods

Our last shipment from My Favorite New Mexico Foods came with a gift. That gift was a huge bottle of Spicy Cocktail Salsa. Here’s their description of the salsa:
“Gulf of New Mexico” Spicy Seafood Salsa is the perfect accompaniment for all seafood and fish! Its unique ingredients feature not only the [...]

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