Just to have a little roll-call, here is a short bio on each of this blog’s writers:

Joe Levinson is a resident of Columbus, OH after spending many years living in both Kentucky and Florida. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Kentucky, and he’s a maniacal, rabid fan of UK basketball. Joe is a doctor and graduated with his D.O. degree from the Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine in 2005, and currently in residency in Anesthesiology. Joe has been collecting hot sauces for over 13 years, but his love of hot & spicy food goes back to his formidable younger days when he used to pollute his mother’s cooking with cayenne pepper and hot sauce…then blame it on his brothers. He married Linda in 2000 and they have two sons, Ari and Joshua. A little crazy about hot sauce, he’s been known to do silly things like eat raw habaneros and taste too much extract sauce at any given time. Joe is one of the main writers for this blog.

Linda Levinson is Joe’s spouse, also lives in Columbus, OH, and is was born & lived for many years in the greater Chicago-land area. Linda also lived for many years in Austin, Texas before moving to northern Virginia in 1998 where she met Joe, then living in Baltimore, MD. Linda works a lot harder than Joe much of the time. She’s a full-time student at the Ohio State University with a major in psychology, and plans to graduate in 2007. She is also the full-time mother to sons Ari, age 4, and Joshua, age 1. Ari is autistic, and is making much progress thanks to a lot of help through his school and through Linda’s efforts while Joe’s at work for 80 hours per week. Linda is every bit as much of a chilehead as Joe, but tends to like stuff a little milder sometimes and is big fan of most foods made with chipotles. Linda is responsible for almost all the creative processes involved in the design and technical components of this blog, and does some writing as well.

Chuk Hell is a resident of Austin, Texas for almost 20 years, and an aficionado of hot & spicy food of the highest order. Not only does Chuk grow his own chile peppers, but he also makes his own hot sauces and salsas. Chuk makes a living in the culinary arts, and is a baker by trade. We also understand he is quite the musician and raconteur. Chuk was the very first writer we asked to help us with the blog, and his Featured Product writeups are top-notch. For more info on Chuk, go HERE for his intro.

Jon Passow is a resident of Hollywood, CA, but a native of Cleveland, OH. In addition to being a rabid chilehead, he is a “quasi-famous” actor with an ever-growing list of films and TV shows to his credit. He also grows his own peppers, in addition to a wide variety of other fruits, veggies, and other miscellaneous flora. Jon has a background which includes some journalism and is passionate about his love of hot sauces and spicy food. He has also been known to sport a mullet famed in both song and story. For more info on Passow, go HERE to see his intro.

Tina Brooks is a resident of Rigaud, Quebec in the Great White North of Canada and is co-owner of Brooks Pepperfire Foods (aka Peppermaster). Tina is also a long time Chilihead and spends some of her travel time in the Bahamas gathering peppers for the sauces she makes with her husband Greg. Besides making some great sauces, she’s also a lover of spicy fare of all nationalities. Although she describes herself as a “self-indulgent narcissist,” we love it when she graces our blog with her writings. She has a great introduction, which you can read HERE.

More writers may be added in the future, so we’ll update this listing when/if that happens.

About time to update our mission statement…

So what’s this blog all about, anyway?

This blog was born March 26, 2005 out of a personal website that we had been doing for almost a year previous where we paid homage to our favorite hot sauce makers, showed off our hot sauce collection, and just generally ruminated about the world of hot & spicy food in general.

Our reasons for doing this blog include:

1. We offer the Featured Product cyber-column. In it, we take some products from a particular manufacturer of hot & spicy foods and taste them, use them in recipes, offer links to other online reviews and recipes, and list the ingredients for anyone who’s interested.

2. We do reviews on products of all kinds from the world of hot & spicy food. This includes, but is not limited to, hot sauces, salsas, picante sauces, spice mixes, snacks, jerk sauce, mustards, chicken wing sauces, BBQ sauces, and other miscellaneous hot & spicy products.

3. Our writers do reviews on homemade hot sauces, salsas, and spice mixes. There are quite a few amateurs who make some great stuff, so we love to have them show off their hot & spicy culinary creations.

4. Offer links to visit our ‘hot’ blog friends. There’s a lot of good bloggers out there who have sites offering a wide variety of angles on food, both hot & spicy ones and those which are more mundane. Please go visit them!

5. While we have our faves amongst the industry major players, we hope to provide some exposure for those start-up companies who are trying to make a name in the hot & spicy food business with their products.

6. We offer links to those manufacturers whose products we own, collect, use, or generally esteem. Without them, the world would be bereft of really wonderful hot & spicy food. Besides that, our ‘Hot Info’ and ‘Friends’ lists offer links to personal and commercial websites to explore for people whose hot and spicy passions mirror our own.

7. We hope to give a little insight into our own humble collection of hot sauces and offer some info about us in general. In addition, we provide coverage of the collectible hot sauce world both from our own perspective and reports of debuts of collectibles from the manufacturers themselves.

8. We provide a forum for other writers to write about the importance of hot sauces and spicy fare in their lives, and give a way to share their experiences along with ours.

9. Recipes of all kinds are available, both original creations of the blog’s writers and those available in internet and written media in the public domain.

10. Coverage of news stories and press releases from companies and events of the world of hot & spicy food. We’ll write about nearly anything that fits the description, from chili cookoffs to restaurant openings to industry conventions such as ZestFest. Sometimes it’s just worth writing about the fun stuff, too.

If you are new to our site, then be WELCOME! If you’ve been here before, then please keep coming back!

There are so many chileheads out there who make some quality hot sauces, salsas, spice mixes, and other spicy goodies that we want to give them some recognition as well. Whether you are just an amateur who makes stuff on a yearly basis or are an up and coming entrepreneur, we want to hear from YOU! Here’s what to do:

1. Send us an email letting us know what you make and that you would like to have your sauce reviewed. We can be reached through our contact form HERE:

2. Send us a bottle of your creation in the mail, along with a list of ingredients (from most to least) that you used in your batch. You don’t have to provide the amounts of the ingredients or an exact recipe, just a list like you would find on any food product you might buy at the store.

3. We’ll take a few pictures and pass it along to one of our regular reviewers (or possibly even one of our celebrity reviewers if available) to give your creation a try and write up a full review of your culinary capsaicin-laden creation.

We are willing to review products including, but not limited to:

Hot sauce
Salsa
Spice Mixes
Relishes
Jams/jellies

No cost or fees other than what you spend to mail the bottle to us. We have made our own sauces before and know how fun it can be, so please share some of your efforts with us and the hot sauce aficionados out there who read this blog.

We’ve updated a few of the pics with our new snazzy digital camera. Thanks to Chris Tevis from Perfectly Pickled for offering a great deal on the lucite display racks. The daunting part of our collection is that we simply don’t have enough space to display them all. Roughly 60% of our 380+ sauces are on display, with the rest still in boxes that can be swapped in or out as desired. The ones pictured do not include the 2-3 dozen that we have open for use at any given time and are kept in the kitchen cupboard and/or fridge. Yes, we love our hot sauces.

View image 1 - Hottest of the Hot
View image 2 - Mounted Wall Rack
View image 3 - Big Floor Rack
View image 4 - REALLY Hot Stuff
View image 5 - Dave’s Insanity Sauces
View image 6 - The Row of Blair
View image 7 - Some Oversized Bottles
View Image 8 - Autographed sauces
View image 9 - The Row of Blair, other side
View image 10 - A hot duo

We’ll try to keep this updated as we get more, or use up, new hot sauces in our collection. Some purely as for collecting purposes, but we keep 2-3 dozen different ones open at all times for our fiendish culinary uses.

9 1/2 Weeps Hot Passion Sauce
Acid Rain
Aji Amazona - Red
Alberta Crude
Amoy Chili & Garlic Sauce
ANALize This XXX Garlic Hot Sauce
Around the World Hot Sauce
Arriba! Salsa Mordita
Ass in Antarctica
Ass in Space
Ass in the Tub
Baboon Ass Gone Rabid Hot Sauce
Baboon Ass Brand Habanero Hot Sauce
Baby Rasta
Bada Bing Bada Boom Mal Occhio
Bada Bing Bada Boom Probable Cause
Bada Bing Bada Boom Sauce
Bailey’s Irish Scream
Baron Classic Pepper Sauce - red
Baron West Indian Hot Sauce - yellow
Batten Island Extra Hot Sauce
Batten Island Hot Sauce
Belligerent Blaze
Blackburn’s Powderkeg
Blackburn’s Sourpuss
Blair Q Chipotle Slam
Blair Q Habanero Mango
Blair Q Jalapeno Tequila
Blair Q Wasabi Ginger
Blair’s 2am Reserve
Blair’s 3am Reserve
Blair’s 4am Reserve
Blair’s 5am Reserve
Blair’s 6am Reserve
Blair’s After Death Sauce
Blair’s Death Sauce
Blair’s Holiday Reserve 2004
Blair’s Hot Pot
Blair’s Jalapeno Death Sauce
Blair’s Mega Death Sauce
Blair’s Possible Side Effects
Blair’s Salsa de la Muerte
Blair’s Smokin’ Hot Pot
Blair’s Sudden Death Sauce
Blair’s Sweet Death Sauce
Blind Betty’s Blind in the Rind
Blind Betty’s Original
Blind Betty’s Pineapple Pizzazz
Blues On the Bayou ‘98
Bobarosa’s Scorpion Stinger Juice
Braswell’s Vidalia Onion & Fla. Orange Hot Sauce
Brother Bru-Bru’s - Mild
Brutal Bajan Hot Habanero Sauce
Bucky Goldstien’s Hot Sauce
Bufalo Jalapeno Sauce
Burchell’s Gourmet Africa - Harissa
Burchell’s Gourmet Africa - Mamba
Burchell’s Gourmet Africa - Peri Peri
Busha Browne’s Pukka Hot Pepper Sauce
Bustelo’s Habanero Pepper Sauce
CaBoom! 2 2 Hot
Cactus Carlos Hot Stuff
Café Louisiane Hotter’n Hell Sauce
Calido Chile Traders Kiss of Fire
Cape Fear - Near Death rating
Cap’n Gator
Capsico Classic
Century Hot Pepper Sauce
Chef Ivo’s Fucowee Indians P.O.W W.O.W.
Chef Shaikh “Raging Inferno”
Chile Today-Hot Tamale
Chili’s Fire Pit - Dark Vader
Chili’s Fire Pit - Limelight
Chilli Peppers Hot Sauce
Chipotle Del Sol Smokin’ Hot Sauce
Cholula Hot Sauce
Colon Blow
Congo Sauce
Cool Million Pepper Extract
Coyote Cocina Chipotle Hot Sauce
Coyote Cocina Howlin’ Hot Sauce
Craig’s Hot Sauce - Green
Craig’s Hot Sauce - Red
Crazy Jerry’s - Brain Damage
Crazy Jerry’s - Devil’s Brew Garlic Hot Sauce
Crazy Jerry’s - Orange Rush
Crocodile Soup
Denzel’s Apples & Cinnamon
Denzel’s Dangerous Goods
Denzel’s Fire Hazard
Denzel’s Kamikaze
Denzel’s Lil’ Smokehouse
Denzel’s Pineapple Punch
D.L. Jardine’s Blazin’ Saddle
D.L. Jardines Texas Champagne
Da Bomb - Beyond Insanity
Da Bomb - Ground Zero
Da Bomb - The Final Answer
Dancing Fire Chipotle Hot Sauce
Dat’l Do-it Devil Drops
Dave’s Cool Cayenne Pepper Hot Sauce
Dave’s Gourmet Ginger Peach Hot Sauce
Dave’s Hurtin’ Habanero Hot Sauce
Dave’s Hurtin’ Jalapeno Hot Sauce
Dave’s Insanity Sauce - Private Reserve 1996
Dave’s Insanity Sauce - Private Reserve 2002
Dave’s Insanity Sauce - Private Reserve 2003
Dave’s Roasted Garlic Hot Sauce
Dave’s Roasted Red Pepper & Chipotle Hot Sauce
Dave’s Scotch Bonnet Hot Sauce
Dave’s Temporary Insanity Hot Sauce
Dave’s Ultimate Insanity
de la Grenade Hot Forte Pepper Sauce
Deathwish Cayenne Sauce
Deathwish Peach Jalapeno Sauce
Demon Ichor
Dia De Los Muertos Piquine Tequila Pepper Sauce
Dragon Fire
East Armageddon - Post-Apocalypse
El Paso Chile Co. - Tequila Hot Sauce
El Yucateco Mayan Sauce
Endorphin Rush
Engine Number 1
Flaming Ass Friendly Fire Habanero Sauce
Flavors of the Rainforest - Green Habanero
Flavors of the Rainforest - Papaya Pepper
Frontera - Tangy Toasted de Arbol
Frostbite
Gator Snowbird Surprise
Gator Vertigo
Gecko Gary’s OUCHipotle
Gecko Gary’s Roasted Red Pepper
Gib’s Hellbanero Fire
Gib’s Nuclear Hell
Gil’s Crying Tongue Hot Sauce
Goya Hot Sauce
Guess What
Habanero Hurricane
Hard Time
Harold’s Dangerously Hot Sauce
Havoc Maker - green
Hell Sauce
Holy Shit! Habanero Sauce
Hot Bitch At The Beach
Hot Chocolate
Hot Crotch Sauces “Bonerrific”
Hot Sauce From Hell - Devil’s Revenge
Hot Spots - Blaze
Hot Spots - Ember
Hot Spots - Fireball
Hot Spots - Flame
Hot Spots - Smoky
Hula Girl - Chipotle Habanero
Hula Girl - Jalapeno Sauce
Iguana Red Cayenne Pepper Sauce
Iguana XXX Habanero Pepper Sauce
Jamaica Hell Fire - “Doc’s Special”"
Jim Beam Hot Sauce
Joe Perry’s Rock Your World Boneyard Brew
Juanita’s Picante Hot Sauce
Jump Up and Kiss Me - Spicy Moroccan Date Sauce
Jump Up and Kiss Me - Original
Jump Up and Kiss Me - Passion Fruit
Jump Up and Kiss Me - Smoky Chipotle
Kato’s Island Sauce
Kato’s Meaner Greener
Key West is Going Bananas
King Tut Hot Sauce
Kiss of Fire Ultimate Hot Sauce
Kryptonite Super Hot Sauce
La Fama Hot Sauce
Laughing Bull Hot Sauce
Lava Hot Sauce - Medium
Lava Hot Sauce - Mild
Lava Hot Sauce - Hot
Lawyer’s Breath
Liquid Stoopid
Los Andes Aji Hot Sauce
Louisiana Gold
Mad Cat Hot Sauce
Mad Dog 357 Collector’s Ed. w/ Bullet
Mad Dog 357 Hot Sauce
Mad Dog Green Amigo
Mad Dog Inferno 1999 Private Reserve
Mad Dog Liquid Fire
Mad Dog’s Revenge
Mad Pepper Co. “Green With Envy”
Mad Pepper Co. “Mother’N Law’s Revenge”
MAGMA Hot Sauce
Marie Sharp’s Habanero Sauce - Fiery Hot
Matouk’s West Indian Flambeau Sauce
Maui Pepper Co. - Apple Sass
McCutcheon’s Vidalia Onion Hot Sauce
Mean Devil Woman
Medicine Man Hot Sauce
Melinda’s XXXMas Sauce
Melinda’s XXXXtra Reserve
Mo Hotta-Mo Betta Cayenne Garlic
Mo Hotta-Mo Betta Chipotle Adobo
Mo Hotta-Mo Betta Red Savina Habanero
Mo Hotta-Mo Betta Thai Tamarind
Montezuma - Smokey Chipotle
Montezuma - Wild Pequin Sauce
Montgomery’s Fire Lizard Habanero Hot Sauce
Monty’s Smoke & Fire Apple Smoked Habanero Sauce
Moonlite Bar-B-Q Very Hot Sauce
Mountainman Fire Roasted Habanero Sauce
Mountainman Roasted Corn Garlic & Chipotle Sauce
Mrs. Dog’s Dangerously Hot Pepper Sauce
Nor’Easter Hot sauce
Oak Hill Farms - Jalapeno Pepper Sauce
Oak Hill Farms - Scorned Woman
Oak Hill Farms - Three Pepper Lemon
One Eyed Willy’s Peter Pepper Sauce
Orange Krush
Pa Chai’s Super Hot Sauce
Pain is Good Batch #114 - Jamaican style
Pain is Good Batch #218 - Louisiana style
Pain is Good Batch #37 - Garlic
Panola Bat’s Brew
Panola Clearly Hot Sauce
Panola Vampfire
Pepper Girl - Bad Girls in Heat
Pepper Girl - Big Top Fantasy
Pepper Girl - Fifi’s Nasty Little Secret
Pepper Girl - Kitten’s Big Banana
Pepper Girl - Sultan’s Main Squeeze
Pepper Girl - Wrong Number
Phamous Phloyd’s Hot Sauce
Pickapeppa Hot Pepper Sauce
Pirate’s Attack
Pop’s Pepper Patch - Hot & Smoky Habanero
Predator Great White Shark Sauce
Pure Cap
Purgatory Brand - Sweet Heat
Purgatory Brand - Voo Doo Chile Sauce
Purple Haze Psychedelic Hot Sauce
Pyrodiablo
Quaker Steak & Lube - Hot Sauce
Ralph’s Righteous Habanero Sauce
Rectal Rocket Fuel
Red Savina Garlic Sauce
Redneck Gormay - Sweat Thang
Religious Experience “Apocalypse”"
Rhino Peri-Peri Pepper Sauce
Ring of Fire Hot Sauce
River Bank-Trinidad Tomatillo
Roberto’s Baja Style Original De Arbol
Rohoboth Beach Boardwalk “Lime-Cilantro”
Ron’s Nucking Futs
Salsa Cancun
Samson’s Sauce
Satan’s Blood
Saxis Island Fulcanelli Pepper Sauce
Scottie’s Habanero Blues Sauce
Screamin’ Demon
Screaming Rasta - Lost in Boiling Lake Xtra Hot
Screaming Rasta - Lost in Boiling Lake XXXtra Hot
Screaming Rasta - Lost in Sulphur Springs
Sexabi medium
Sexabi mild
Sexabi XXXhot
Shag’s Own - Green Heat
Shag’s Own - Original Redneck Sauce
Smack My Ass & Call Me Sally
Smack My Ass & Call Me Sally Habanero Sauce
Smokey Pig’s Habanero Hot Sauce
Smokin’ Habs Mole Style Hot Sauce
Solar Flare
Son of Beast Hot Sauce
Southwest Spirit - Smokin’ Oranges
Southwest Spirit - Zen and Passion
Southwest Spirit - Zia Fire
Spice Exchange Cayenne Pepper Sauce
Spice Exchange Habanero Pepper Sauce
Spice Exchange Jalapeno Pepper Sauce
Spice Exchange Tabasco Pepper Sauce
St. Blazes Cure
Sweet Mama Jamma’s Mojo Juice
Tabasco - Chipotle
Tabasco - Habanero
Tabasco - Milder
Tabasco - Original
Taheati’s Tropi-Garlic Hot Sauce
Tahiti Joe’s Polynesian Hot Sauce
Tamarindo Bay Pepper Sauce
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Hot Sauce
Tejas Tears Habanero Chile Sauce
The Beast
The Beast-”Terror In a Bottle”
The Boulder Hot Sauce Co. “Harry’s Habanero”
The Boulder Hot Sauce Co. “Smokey Serrano”
The Reaper Hot Sauce
The Source
The Thing Hot sauce
This the Hot Sauce Your Parents Warned You About
Three Banditos Salsa Habanero
Toad Sweat Chocolate Orange Dessert Hot Sauce
Toad Sweat Lemon Vanilla Hot Sauce
Toe-Tally Gator
Tongues of Fire
Toxic Waste
Trader Joe’s Jalapeno Pepper Hot sauce
Trader Jose’s Tena Pepper Sauce
Trinidad Habanero Sauce - Xtra Hot
Tropical Classics - Banana Jama
Tropical Classics - Maya Moon Sauce
Tropical Classics - Rica Red
Tropical Pepper Co. Xxtra Hot Habanero
Tropical Pepper Co. XXXtra Hot Habanero
Two Flaming Arrows
UnBEARable
Uncle Billy’s Wild Blue Yonder
University of Kentucky Fire ‘em Up Hot Sauce
Vicious Viper Hot Sauce
Walker’s Wood Jonkanoo Pepper Sauce
Wanza’s Wicked Temptation
Wicked Wolf
Widow
Wizard’s Habanero Hot Stuff
You Can’t Handle This Hot Sauce
Z…Nothing Beyond

On some blogs, you can find out a little bit about the authors themselves. This is one of those blogs. Duh!

Linda was born in Chicago, IL and raised in the Chicago area until the age of 17, when the wind, cold and snow finally got to her. Sick of the snow, Linda “followed the sun” to Austin, Texas where she swapped the snow for the 105-degree heat of Texas summers. After 11 years of personal and professional growth, Linda hit the road again thinking she wanted to relocate to Boston, MA. She stopped a little south of there, settling into northern Virginia just south of Washington, D.C. in 1997. After meeting the eclectic other author of this blog, Joe, she relocated up the road to Baltimore, MD in 1998. This was followed by a job stint working & living in Brussels, Belgium from 1999-2000 before relocating back to Lexington, KY in April, 2000. Now a resident of Columbus, OH, Linda is a full-time mother of two sons and will also be pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Pyschology in Spring 2006 at The Ohio State University.

Joe was born in South Bend, IN and lived there until the age of 7, when his whole clan uprooted and moved to the Sunshine State of Florida. For 11 years, Joe resided in Bradenton, FL and dodged hurricanes and half-blind senior citizens until he graduated high school and started college at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. One year in New Orleans was more than enough (temptations on sobriety and all), and he relocated to Lexington, KY where he graduated from the University of KY in 1994 as a medical technologist. From there, he spent 1994 to 1999 in Baltimore, MD working as a lab tech and getting ready for medical school. He met Linda in 1998, and the rest, as they say, is history. It was his job that ultimately led both of them to Belgium and then back to Kentucky again. He enrolled at the Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine in 2001 and graduated with his D.O. degree in 2005. Now a resident of of Columbus, OH, Joe will be starting his internship in July 2005 and plans to enter his Anesthesiology residency next year.

Joe and Linda have been married since 2000. They have two sons, Ari (born in 8/02) and Joshua (born in 9/05).

The Hot Zone Online is pleased to offer two different options for people/companies who make and produce hot & spicy foods to get your stuff reviewed by us. These two choices are:

1. Featured Products column - This is the more extensive of the write-ups we do, stays online longer, and has more visibility. To qualify, your company must:

- make 2 or more hot & spicy products, which our author(s) will review

- be willing to participate in an interview in Q&A format via email

- can submit pictures or other info to be published as part of the article

What we will do is create a posting that includes the interview, tasting notes, pictures of the products, ingredients list, links to other reviews of the same products, and any recipe ideas we may come up with in the tasting process. There are also links to the manufacturer’s website so that readers have a resource to purchase the items or read more about them if desired. Other facets may be added to the write-up, but these are some of the things which are usually done.

2. Product Review - This is for reviews of a single product, whether it be hot sauce, salsa, spice mix, or otherwise. This is a focused review of the product which may be rather extensive or brief, depending on the discretion of the author. Anyone whose company/products have already been done as a Featured Product will likely be done in this format, although we can work with special requests on a case-by-case basis. Links to the manufacturer’s website are usually included in this review format as well.

All requests for a given format will be honored as much as possible, but we reserve the right to change formats if necessary.

The no monetary cost for either of these two write-up options being done. All that is required is that the company/person requesting the reviews to send whatever products is to be done to the reviewer(s) by mail without charge. In return, the authors agree to attempt, in good faith, to complete the writing of the reviews within 2-4 weeks after the products are received.

All sorts of spicy food products are eligible for review. These include, but are not limited to, things such as hot sauce, salsa, marinades, BBQ sauce, spice mixes, spicy relishes, snack foods (chips, nuts, popcorn, jerky, etc), mustards, wing sauces, jerk sauces, other spicy condiments, and any other product geared towards the chilehead crowd. If you’re not sure if it qualifies, just ask us!

These review formats has been well-received thus far, by both the readers and the companies that have chosen to participate. It’s as close to free advertising as it comes, and you’ll be linked up to wide network of food bloggers who will see it as well.

If you are interested in either of these services, contact us through this link:

CONTACT FORM

Our love of all things spicy goes way back, probably to a time when we realized that everything our mothers made for us when we were growing up was just way too bland. Our tastebuds led a bloodless coup and said �Food must be hot and spicy!� Who knew that there was a whole world of peppers out there that would accommodate our masochistic gastronomic desires?

Let’s clear up a common misconception. The spelling is c-h-i-l-e, which is not to be confused with chili, a meaty product lovingly assembled for summer cook-offs. Most chiles come from the genus Capsicum, which has many varieties of shapes, sizes, colors, and of course, heat level. The �heat� from a chile is dependent on a substance called capsaicin. The chemistry of capsaicin and �hotness� is really cool, so click here to see more about it.

Besides enhancing just about any food imaginable, chile peppers are made into wonderful hot sauces. We are avid collectors, having roughly 308 different brands of hot sauce in our collection. It is getting tougher to find sauces that are not just clones of existing sauces, but with a different label pasted onto the bottle. Check out our links for some sites where you can find some hot sauce retailers. Some even have reviews of the sauces so you can read a little about them before you buy.

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