We appreciate getting this information from Frank Brenner of Lambs Farm that we can pass along to you regarding a neat looking Chili Cookoff event next month. If you are anywhere within 500 miles of Illinois or are a die-hard chili cook, then this event is for you. All proceeds to help support [...]

Our buddy Ron Levi from Innuendo Foods (RoJo’s Gourmet) let us know a little while ago about a website overhaul for their 7th anniversary some time ago. Well, the word on the street is that a free bottle of Baboon Ass hot sauce is available to those who order any of their products. [...]

Given a chance to taste and review a product from one of our favorite companies, My Favorite New Mexico Foods, we jumped right at it. One of the great things about attending this past Weekend of Fire show at Jungle Jim’s was the opportunity to pick up a variety of their products…in bulk. [...]

Not everyone realizes the cultural significance of chile peppers, particularly if you live outside the southwestern U.S. This article from the Pueblo Chieftain does a good job at doing just that, and about a pepper that doesn’t get too much talk in the world of habaneros, jalapenos, and even Bhut jolokias…the mirasol pepper.
Think Pueblo, [...]

Our long-lost blogger Shannan (of Melindas) offered up some information we would like to post today. Yeah, it’s sort of a stream-of-consciousness ramble, but even some spicy culinary genius comes from stuff like that. This is Shannan’s suggestion:
Chilehead Kings and Queens,
For those of you that tend to get out and wander this [...]

As we cooked our own humble BBQ at home this evening, we noticed that we weren’t the only ones in Ohio making their dinner a little spicy. In Ashtabula (where we’ve never been, btw), they have some spicy ribs. In fact, they apparently do a yearly “rib burn-off.” Wonder if that’s the [...]

Spicy mustard is like sex. You’d be hard-pressed to have too much of it. We can say this because if you looked in our fridge at any given time, more space is taken up by mustard than you might imagine. Fortunately, our rate of consumption of this wonderful condiment is rapid enough [...]

Denzel has been on a long winning streak with us here at the Hot Zone.
He keeps sending us his sauces, and we have been loving each and every one of them. There’s always that bit of trepidation when we try a new one, as we wistfully wonder if we’ll run across that one sauce [...]

Our collection of Monty’s BBQ sauces has laid dormant for a while, mostly because we’ve been doing a lot with hot sauces and salsa, but precious little with BBQ sauces. After our last shopping adventure, the arrival of a large package of boneless, skinless chicken breasts changed all that.
So that’s where the fun [...]

I have just come from reading a hot sauce review at The Hot Sauce Blog…. I am still smiling so hard, my cheeks hurt.
Chilli sauce reviewer and hot sauce maker Louie of Old Skool Pyrate hot sauces of Wisconsin has written a hilarious if somewhat scathing review of Batten Island Mild Gourmet Sauce. It was [...]