After yet another exciting year of blogging, it’s time as we begin a new year to reflect upon the accomplishments of the year now passed. Here is what we did during 2008:
- Lots and lots of reviews, as usual. We reviewed:
38 hot sauces
8 spicy snacks
6 spicy BBQ sauces
14 salsas
8 condiments
4 misc sauces
3 spicy [...]

This one comes from our buddy, Chuck Evans of Montezuma Brand. He gave me a bottle of his Spicy Red Everyday Pepper Sauce for review when I talked with him at the Weekend of Fire. Chuck mentioned that he wanted to create a sauce that you can use everyday like Tabasco. Nothing extravagant, just plain [...]

Great article about the globalization of chile peppers and spicy food, courtesy of a cool article from Indianexpress.com:
Global warming
Posted: Dec 27, 2008 at 0052 hrs IST
Tasteless, colourless, odourless and painful, pure capsaicin is a curious substance. It does no lasting damage, but the body’s natural response to even a modest dose (such as that found [...]

4 cups grilled boneless skinless chicken breast diced into 1/4 ” cubes
1/2 C Defcon Defense Condition 2 All Purpose wing sauce 
1/2 C mayonaise
1/4 C finely diced shallots
1/4 C finely diced onion
blue cheese crumbles
dark rye bread
lettuce
Season and grill chicken breast approx 4lbs (raw weight) boneless skinless chicken breasts.  You could also use left over turkey from your holiday [...]

Finally, there’s a pizza place that makes their pizza spicy enough for the chileheads who read this blog!! This article appeared recently in the online edition of the Los Angeles Times:
Lucifers Pizza: Some like it hot
By Jessica Gelt
December 22, 2008
Something wicked this way comes. Fortunately, the rough beast slouching toward Los Feliz doesn’t signal [...]

This was one of the pile of Sweet Sunshine sauces gifted to us by Ed Federovich at this past Jungle Jim’s Weekend of Fire show in August 2008. Before and after that show, the Sweet Sunshine sauces have won nearly every conceivable industry award for their products during the past couple of years. [...]

Ah yes, Intensity Academy. This review has been a long time coming…ok, it’s been 4 months, but you get the point. It’s always a refreshing change to see a company using organic products and coming out with a quality, reasonably priced, and extremely tasty product!
Chai Thai Teriyaki Ingredients: Water, sugar, natural Tamari soy sauce, honey, [...]

Hey Guys, Long time no post. 
This is a favor for my buddy, Al Goldenberg AKA Buddah.  Please check out his auctions.  He is a super cool guy, chilehead extraordinaire, and reviewer for Taste the Fear. He has also been honored by CaJohn with a Buddah Collectable. If you don’t know him yet, you had better ask someone.  He is a good [...]

Our next reviews come to you courtesy of John & Elaine Farnsworth of the Tiger Teeth Pepper Company from Biddeford, ME. They make a couple of wonderful, homemade sauces that are deserving of your attention. John’s lovely wife is from British Guyana and these recipes are part of her heritage. The sauces [...]

This jar has languished at the back of our “stuff to try” shelf for way too long, so I have been looking for an excuse to open this and use it for several weeks now. The fact is, that I have my motives.
I really love good horseradish. In fact, I’ve been trying to [...]