It has once again been a year of continued growth for us here at The Hot Zone Online. In no particular order, here is our official recap of this year’s goings-on:
– 10 Featured Product columns published, ranging from products such as hot sauce, snacks, pepper mashes, salsas, and [...]

This is Chili (chile in swedish), the boerboel that helps me with my chile growing and manufacturing. She eats the tiny budding plants if left unattended with them, she steals the full grown plants and goes running though the garden with me following, she eats the chiles I’ve tossed out of the greenhouse as rejects [...]

My introduction to these sauces and products came as an evolution-like process. First I saw the media articles come rolling across my computer screen. Then came the impressive list of awards through the Fiery Food Challenge and Scovie competitions. I even read a review or two about the sauces on another site [...]

When dealing with the public, you get to meet all kinds…..
The Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis is world renowned for it’s Native American and Western Art. It is a spectacular facility that used to host an annual chili cook-off as part of the fund raising efforts. I used to sponsor the ‘firefighter division’, encouraging [...]

Joe is always asking me to either take more pictures for the blog, or write some more articles. Well, here was a way for me to do both! We’ve had this jar of Csigi Chili Sauce Fra Diavolo Pasta Sauce just sitting on the shelf waiting to be used for quite some time. [...]

Just when we thought that we had issues with growing our own peppers, we ran across this article from the Las Cruces Sun-News about the manpower vs. technology issues of the chile pepper cultivation out in New Mexico. Hey, at least we still pick our own peppers by hand. Granted that’s from like [...]

Hot sauce manufacturers, take note…astronauts are your new target demographic. Get them hooked on it, then have them take it up into space. When they say that there’s a whole new world that needs hot sauce, they may have actually been talking about the world of outer space. Check this article out [...]

In a world of Hooter’s, BW3, and other underwhelming choices for dine-in options for chicken wings, it’s nice to see that there’s a place that at least seems to promulgate both concern for the biosphere/environment AND quality food that’s not so full of crappy ingredients that you’re well on your way to your first heart [...]

Merry Christmas from the Hot Zone Online!
We’ll be celebrating Christmas in our own special way, just like our ancestors did…by ordering Chinese takeout and watching the news about where NORAD thinks that Santa really is….

Fast on the heels of our last posting about our eBay charity auctions, the next auction of hot sauces for the “Raising the HEAT for Autism” event is now online and available on eBay. Straight from the fine people at Nando’s, we are auctioning:
Nando’s collectible hot sauce for Autism charity

The winner of the auction [...]