We here at the Hot Zone Online are baseball fans. Big-time ones. In fact, we even participate in a fantasy baseball league where the winners get dozens of bottles of hot sauce. Well, here is a shout-out for something that mixes America’s pastime with our favorite thing, hot sauce. We might not be Red Sox fans per se, but we like stuff like this enough to suggest that you get some before ChileHeadEd buys it all. You can find David Ortiz’s website at http://bigpapienfuego.com/ and check out this article from the online Boston Globe while you’re at it.

A portion of the proceeds from sales of these sauces go to charity.

Ortiz’s hot sauces cover all the bases
By Alyssa Giacobbe
Globe Correspondent / June 10, 2009

There is a difference among hot sauce fanatics between the tasters and the masochists. For the tasters, hot sauce exists to coax flavor from food and elongate the sensation of taste. The masochists, by contrast, seek to push the limits of tolerance. They’re in it for the fix and, of course, the bragging rights.

David Ortiz, the amiable if presently downtrodden Red Sox slugger and self-described “grill man,” is a taster. Inspired by a well-documented affection for spicy Dominican food and backyard barbecues, Ortiz’s new line of Louisiana-style hot sauce, Big Papi En Fuego, is for chili connoisseurs (en fuego is Spanish for “on fire”). Now in supermarkets, four preservative-free levels include Original En Fuego, Monster Double En Fuego, Off the Wall Triple En Fuego, and Grand Slam En Fuego, the fieriest.

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