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, over at The Hippy Seed Company and is titled Y7 “Turkey Slap”. The Y7 comes from the Yellow 7 Pods and the Turkey Slap come from both a fun [...]

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 [...]

Starting off my series of reviews from the products I received at this years Weekend of Fire is from Cape Fear Pepper Company. Tracy Campbell’s wife makes this delicious product and has had many people clamoring to try to pry the recipe away from her…the stuff is just that good!
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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One of my buddies from The Hot Pepper forum (his screen name is bentalphanerd) has sent me my first homemade sauce that I have ever received from Australia. The sneaky bastard said he was sending me pepper seeds for my garden this year and I was bowled over when I saw one of his sauces [...]

It’s always a pleasure getting test sauces from industry hopefuls. Often they are way crafty and sometimes so inventive I’ll have to bust out the thesaurus just to find the words to describe them. Such a sauce always comes from Lynn “Devil Duck” Duck (no, I didn’t type Duck twice, his last name really is [...]