It’s been a while since I have done one of these homemade reviews, but I tend to approach them with a sense of apprehension. With everyone having their own idea of what a hot sauce should be, I hate having to bring the hammer down on other’s carefully crafted creations. Not so with Pascale Troupin-Castania [...]

Well, our offer to review our readers’ homemade sauces and salsa continues to plod along…but now we have our first repeat victim submitter. Two whopping years ago we reviewed a Hot 4 Pepper Salsa by Ed and Patti Wajer. Needless to say, Ed & Patti are back on the scene here with a pair of [...]

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. [...]

Hello folks! North America’s Hot Sauce Ambassador to Australia is here again with yet another Aussie sauce to review. This one comes from our friend, Neil, o Do I Call My Ex ver at The Hippy Seed Company and is titled Y7 “Turkey Slap”. The Y7 comes from the Yellow 7 Pods and the Turkey [...]

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 [...]

Starting off my series of reviews from the products I received at this years

I was contacted by a young man from Georgia by the name of Antonio Cadogan and was asked to review a Scotch Bonnet hot sauce of his own creation that he was looking to take from just being a hobby to actually bottling it and selling it commercially. Antonio himself is a U.S. Army veteran [...]

We usually take great efforts to avoid duplicating reviews of sauces here on this blog, but sometimes certain products make us think that was a silly idea. This is one of those. While we don’t know ‘Bent’ personally (he lives in the Land Down Under), we’ve chatted with him through The Hot Pepper discussion board [...]

We are constantly thrilled to find that there are people who can make hot sauce at home that is every bit as good as the ones you buy from the professional sauce makers. However, it often takes numerous rounds of experimentation to get your sauce just right. Thank goodness for events like the amateur hot [...]

It’s been a little while since we had some good homemade salsa, so we dove back into the fray with this new arrival from Ed & Patti Wajer called Ed & Patti’s Hot 4 Pepper Gourmet Salsa. This salsa fits into both categories with us…that of a homemade product as well as a commercially distributed [...]