The Hot Zone Online

Entries for September, 2008

Slideshow from ZestFest 2008

This was passed along to us from Darrell and Candy from Big Dawg Salsa. While it’s not a comprehensive slideshow or anything, it is courtesy of CBS 11 TV out of Dallas. Check this out:
Hot Sauce Heaven At ZestFest 2008

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Fiery Food Challenge winners from ZestFest 2008

Best New Product

Consumer Ready
1st place — Chuma Gourmet Foods/Chuma Chipotle Mix
2nd place — Garden Fresh Gourmet Habanero Mango w/Ginger & Honey
3rd place — Cin Chili Ready-to-Eat Hearty Beef w/Beans
Cook-Off Food
1st place — CaJohns Jolokia Fiery Smoked Sausages Hot
CONSUMER READY
Barbecue Sauce
Alcohol Infused
1st place — Cowboy BBQ Sweet & Smoky Meat Moppin Sauce
2nd place — Porky’s Gourmet [...]

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The Hot Zone Online goes west

Greetings from the Inland Northwest! Joe and Linda from the Hot Zone Online are currently luxuriating in sunny Spokane, WA while Joe interviews for his first Anesthesiology job for after the end of his residency in June 2009. We’ve never been to Washington State before, so it’s pretty cool to be able to [...]

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Passow Receives Something Else That’s EZ To Use

Well, it’s been a very long time since I’ve reviewed something from E.Z. Earl. To be exact, it’s been almost two years! Well, that’s about to change because Earl’s product has been signed to some very large name grocery stores and he’s brought out a “mild” BBQ sauce for them to stock their shelves with. [...]

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Sweet & Spicy Buckeye Mustard by Buckeye Mustard LTD

We first met Lisa Latshaw of Buckeye Mustard at one of the many North Market events that go on here in sunny Columbus, OH. Lisa has created a burgeoning family of products that started with this product, called the Sweet & Spicy Buckeye Mustard. This mustard is available at numerous grocers and vendors [...]

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Passow’s media coverage makes him infamous

Hey, we thought that we had cornered the market on media coverage…but Passow scores one for himself!! Check out this cool writeup with our very own blog-writer extraordinaire from the Cleveland.com website:
Ten spices you need right now! (And one hot sauce.)
by Marie Andrusewicz
Tuesday September 02, 2008, 6:21 PM
I’d been coveting those spice racks with [...]

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David’s Chilli Oil

Hi Folks,
I was lucky enough to be sent some chilli oil from David’s Chilli Oil. David as he is known had this to say:I have been creating Chilli Oil for a number of years to enliven food with a delicious heat. The mix of heat and flavour has been carefully balanced to produce [...]

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Passow’s Fire Turns Into an Inferno

Finishing off the Australia in a Box series comes Ol’ Man Stillmanz Fire and Inferno sauces. The picture above is the old packaging so I won’t comment on the labels. I’m going to start this off with the Fire sauce.
Ol’ Man Stillmanz Fire Ingredients: Pineapple, water, onion, vinegar, sugar, lime juice, Habanero chillies, salt, garlic, [...]

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Zane & Zack’s Smokey Chip Ole’

Got a sense of humor?

Here it is, something new and slightly less than exciting!
The label may be a parody of another well known product.
This is a limited production run of our medium chipotle salsa.  These will be numbered 1-24 as there are only two cases in existence at this time.  Cost will be $10. each and only available [...]

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I Dream of Hot Sauce

Well with only a few days before ZestFest ‘08…

This is our collectible, I’m going to bring one to ZF.  We are calling it I Dream of Hot Sauce.  1973 Jim Beam bourbon bottle similar to the ’64 bottle used in the I dream of Jeannie TV show.  It took me quite a while to win all [...]

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