The Hot Zone Online

Entries for December, 2007

Passow’s Moving On

I haven’t been reviewing much, as some of you might have noticed. I am sorry for that. I am backlogged and still need to review the sauces that Scotty B and Tahiti Joe sent me back in May. I’m itching to write, but the year from hell has hit a crescendo.
I am moving back to [...]

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First set of signed hot sauce bottles now available on eBay

It’s taken a few extra days, but the first of several auctions of hot sauces and spicy food packages for the “Raising the HEAT for Autism” event are now online and available on eBay. For these auctions, we are selling three (3) bottles of Ron Jeremy Hot Sauce autographed by Ron Jeremy himself. [...]

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Original Cajun Chow-Chow by Mossy Bayou Foods

Even though I was jazzed about trying the Swamp Scum Hot Sauce by Mossy Bayou Foods, I have to admit a guilty thought about it.
I was really wanting to review this product perhaps a little bit more. The fact is, that I really enjoy stuff like relishes, chutneys, and the like. So, when I [...]

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Raising the HEAT for Autism update – December 21

Wow! One week into our charity fund raising efforts and we’ve already far surpassed last year’s total. Thanks to all of you who have pledged on our Firstgiving site and those who have bought the collectible hot sauce entitled “Epidemic Proportions.”
For those of you curious about the collectible bottle, they’re loaded, sealed and [...]

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Limited Edition Jolokia Select Puree now available

You can now add a new pepper to the lineup of CaJohn’s Select Purees…the Jolokia! See this message below from CaJohn on how to get some of this fiery concoction.
We have reconstituted some of our dried Jolokia pods and created a Limited Edition of Jolokia Select Puree. With 80% chile and 20% vinegar, this [...]

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The Hot Pepper Awards 2007 – Winners Announced!

We haven’t crowed too much about anything from the Hot Pepper message board, for personal reasons, but we like to give credit where credit is due. As one of the longest-running message boards about hot sauce and spicy fare, they have established a yearly set of awards honoring industry products and companies for specific [...]

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Takin’ a chance on love…er, hot sauce.

So, he takes a chance on hot sauce store? We like the sound of that. Actually, it’s encouraging to see another hot shop open up in, or near, Joe’s hometown in Florida. It gives us lots of shopping options when we go down to visit. This quip came from an article [...]

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“SNAKEBITE” Sauce from the chileman.org

I was lucky enough to receive a bottle of the latest “Snakebite” sauce from my good friend Mark Mcmullan at the chileman.org The ingredients are: onions, carrots, vinegar, naga morich, red chilis, ginger, sugar, red bell peppers, garlic, olive oil, salt.
On opening the sauce the first thing I noticed was how thick it was, but [...]

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Poll Results: Do you feel that the collectible hot sauce market is flooded with too many collectibles and is devalued?

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The Jolokia Comparison

There was a great article to appear in the most recent e-newsletter from Fiery-Foods.com today. Harald Zoschke, owner of Pepperworld.com and part-time author for the Hot Zone Online, did a great writeup about a comparison of the various incarnations of the Jolokia peppers: Bhut, Bih, and Morich. When taste-testing is part of the [...]

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