After recovering from my Smoked Jolokia experience I wondered the campgrounds once again, stumbling across someone displaying the posters for the past years of Open Fields. I didn’t realize this, but a very handy designer makes spoof posters for each of the years. This year was Harry Podder and had Jim Campbell with a Habanero [...]

After a decent night of rest, I woke up to a slightly cold and very foggy morning. As groggy as I was, I was quite eager to get out there because today was the true start of the event. But first thing’s first…coffee.
A foggy morning in the fields.
I went to my car (aptly named Ol’ [...]

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Well, we need to give credit to Scott Roberts for posting this first, but we just have to publish this ourselves. We watched the show on the night it originally aired, and you out there in Internet-land can view it without having to endure the silliness that the rest of that show happened [...]

Every year, a select few chili-heads get invited to the “Woodstock” of the pepper realm, Jim Campbell’s Open Fields. This year I saved up, requested time off, got the directions (it’s a secret location somewhere south of Indianapolis, Indiana…the place doesn’t even have an address it’s so secret), packed my bags and gassed up. At [...]

I’m finally getting an opportunity to do something I’ve been dieing to do for a while. Last year I missed out on going to Jim Campbell’s Open Fields. For those that don’t know, Jim Campbell and his pepper farm has supplied a lot of the major industry players with peppers for their products.

Since I’m heading out to Jim Campbell’s Open Fields on Friday, I felt it’s appropriate to review one of his products I got at this years Weekend of Fire. Up on the review block today is Mild to Wild Pepper & Herb Co.’s Chipotle Sauce which comes in a conveniently unbreakable (at least by my [...]

Watch tonight on “Extreme Conventions” on the Travel Channel at 8pm EDT, as they cover the 2009 National Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show from this past March in all its hot and spicy glory. John Dilley from DEFCON Sauces told us that they saw that “their film crew showed up at Fiery Foods in [...]

Finally had a chance to sit down and cook up a nice steak (I’ve been lax in my BBQ duties this year) so what better opportunity than that to use Sauce Goddess BBQ Sweet Heat Rub Rub. No, that’s not a typo, they have rub on there twice.
Sauce Goddess BBQ Sweet Heat Rub Rub Ingredients: [...]

We’re excited to see one of our own chilehead brethren do well with his career, and Scott Roberts has taken the plunge in a big way. This article reprinted in its entirety with permission.
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When CaJohn calls you over to try someone’s sauce, you tend to listen. Just such a situation happened at this year’s Weekend of Fire. CaJohn called me over and said, “Passow! Try this sauce.” The sauce in question was called Grizzis Anal Ambush and is a homemade hot sauce by a man named Jack Sturgill. [...]