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Schweaty Sauce by Race City Sauce Works hits a HOME RUN!! Ingredients: crushed tomatoes, tomato juice, tomato puree, RCSW Sambal (crushed fresh chiles [Thai, Chocolate Habanero, 7 Pot Douglah, Piri Piri, yellow Bhut Jolokia, red Bhut Jolokia,], garlic, vinegar, mustard seed, lime pickle [lime pieces, salt, chile powder, lime juice, fenugreek powder, and turmeric powder] [...]

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Announcing a minor format change for Hot Zone Online product reviews

In an effort to unclog the never-ending backlog of reviews, we here at the Hot Zone Online have decided to “tweak” our review format a smidge. When sitting down to write the average review, we’ve felt victimized by a combination of writer’s block buy propecia buy cialis online with no prescription and a desire to [...]

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The hot sauce going to Europe with the Hot Zone Online is…

After a month of voting, we can finally announce a winner for “The Hot Zone Online takes hot sauce on a world tour contest. We saw an interesting pattern in the voting. Peppermaster got out to a strong start and dominated the voting for the first two weeks or so. Then, the legions of Heartbreaking [...]

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The Hot Zone Online takes hot sauce on a world tour

Once upon a time (actually back in 1999-2000,) Linda and I both lived in Europe for our work. Belgium, to be exact. Being the chileheads that we are (and were,) we routinely bemoaned the fact that we did not have ready access to good hot sauces while we lived there. What little we had were [...]

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Passow Retires From Journalism

Well, this pains me to say and do, but after being in the journalism business for over ten years and with The Hot Zone Online for over five and a half years, I’m hanging up my press hat. It’s been a long road filled with twists and turns that kept me on my mental feet.

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What the hell happened to this blog?

Well, more than one person has noticed that this blog has been dormant for about a month now. While we do have several authors, I have always said that the blog defers to their real life stuff like jobs, families, etc. That issue finally hit home with us, and I lost my full-time job about [...]

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23rd Annual Fiery Foods and BBQ Show, Who will be there? What’s new?

All right next weekend it is time once again for the “biggest gathering of chileheads in the world!” I have a few questions. Who will be there? Are you an attendee or an exhibitor? Have you been there before? What do you recommend? If you are an exhibitor, what new products are you offering or [...]

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A little MADNESS comes to the Hot Zone Online with our new writer

Please welcome a brand spankin’ new writer here to the fold at The Hot Zone Online. Cleverly penned in the third person, here is the introduction: Michael J. Hultquist is a chili pepper enthusiast who loves cooking creatively with spicy food. He runs Chili Pepper Madness (http://www.chilipeppermadness.com) and Jalapeno Madness (http://www.jalapenomadness.com) where he focuses on [...]

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2010 Grillmaster’s Festival event addendum

Following the upcoming Grillmaster’s Festival event at Columbus’ North Market, there will be a chileheads dinner following the Saturday slate of events. Dinner will be at 7pm at Fiesta Jalisco in Columbus. We want to place a reservation to assure us all a big table to ourselves, so please let us know your RSVP via [...]

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Announcing “30 products in 30 days”

One of the great things about being a spicy food blogger is that there is no shortage of products that are available to you to review. One of the tough things about being a spicy food blogger is…the same reason. Every time we go to an industry show, we get a little further behind in [...]

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Welcome to the New Adventures of Old Sandi

No, Sandi, we ain’t calling you “old.” However, we did find a picture of a famous “Sandi” to use for you to introduce you again to our blog following. Sandi has graciously agreed to become one of our authors and to contribute her thoughts on some of the hot & spicy products we all eat, [...]

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