“Out with the old, in with the new”
Gone are the old bottles of Monty’s Fire Lizard, with an old label design and ingredients that didn’t want to stay mixed over time. Enter the NEW Monty’s Fire Lizard with a new formulation which includes a lot of what made the previous incarnation so good. [...]

Some righteous props go out to Dave Ashley of the Ashley Foods Co. for his writeup in a recent online edition of the Christian Science Monitor. Dave’s sauces rank as some of the first that Joe ever owned, tried, and collected many years ago when he first started on his way to become the [...]

Great news from our hot sauce buddy, “The Big Show,” also known to some as Paul R. from Connecticut. His combination hot sauce & cigar shop will be opening in a little over two weeks from now. Paul passed along the pertinent info, so here it is:

GRAND OPENING
Fire N Smoke wishes to [...]

I’m not sure if any of you remember, but Monty’s stuff is the very first review we did way back when we had our family website months before we moved it over to a blog. I wish we would have had commenting available at that time. Then again, it’s nice having it now [...]

Hello,
One week ago, we published an excerpt to an article about the Austin Hot Sauce Festival written for the Sun-Sentinel out of South Florida area. In our post, we wondered out loud why the author had posted an article about the show a few months before the event that made it sound like she [...]

Sandia
Taking a short break from our reviewing hot sauces and such, we turned our attention this weekend to taking some pictures of our chile pepper garden. It’s been about a month or so since all the transplants were done, so they’ve had some time to grow while adjusting to their new digs. We’ve [...]

Finding it’s way into my hot sauce loving presence is yet another one of Csigi Chilli Sauces. This time around, it’s not a Pasta Sauce but in fact an actual hot sauce.
Csigi Chili Sauce Big Boss Jalapeno Tomatillo Ingredients: Vinegar, Jalapeno chilies, tomatillos, extra coarse sea salt, Hemp Protein (0.00% THC), roasted garlic, arrowroot, turbinado [...]

Chile peppers know they’re getting some righteous attention when they get a writeup in Time Magazine. This article, which recently appeared as a link on CNN.com, offers some historical perspective along with a look at the latest hot pepper to grab people’s attention, the bhut jolokia.
Chili Peppers: Global Warming
By SIMON ROBINSON/TEZPUR, INDIA
In 1492, when [...]

Sorry for the title of this review. There’s not much I can do with the name Csigi Chili Sauce Spicey Fra Diavolo Pasta Sauce. But that doesn’t mean the sauce isn’t creative. In fact, it’s down right delicious!
Ingredients: Tomato Puree, organic crushed tomato, red onion, tomato paste, extra virgin olive oil, basil, minced garlic, orange [...]

It’s not often that we get a request to review some hot sauce from across the ocean in England, so the email we got from Nick & Zoe at Fire Foods (UK) definitely got our attention. Chile peppers are taking the world by storm, and those in the British Isles are no exception to [...]