WACO, Texas (Ivanhoe Newswire) — you can find them in Mexican and Asian cuisine, hot sauce, medicines, even tear gas … Chile peppers put the heat in all kinds of products these days. Measured on a standard called the Scoville heat scale, they range from zero for a mild bell pepper to a scorching 100,000 [...]

We found this article pretty amusing, and you can find the entire entertaining read in an article in the most recent edition of the online Washington Post. Let’s just say that if you are a teetotaler, this article may not be for you. Try this:
Doctored with Pepper
By Jason Wilson
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Chili heads, [...]

We read this article recently and wanted to bring it to your attention. This was one of the salsa brands we tried as part of the recent contest for the Weekend of Fire show this past August. We actually tried the Nice N Hot salsa, not the Severe, but it was really damn [...]

One of our favorite New England hot sauce folks, David Ashley of the Ashley Food Company, has a really awesome night of hot and spicy food coming this Thursday. We’ll be doing some early trick-or-treating, but if you’re in the Waltham, MA area you should check this out:
Extreme Hot Sauce Creator Joins Forces With [...]

This is a rather wry take on one person’s journey into business as a hot sauce entreprenuer, as detailed in a recent article from the online edition of the Boston Globe:

Entrepreneur seasoned for success
By Joel Brown
Globe Correspondent / October 15, 2009
NEWBURYPORT – First things first. Don’t call it a hot sauce.
“Call it a gourmet [...]

Here are a couple of cool chilehead news stories worthy of your time, two from Canada having to do with new hot sauce entrepreneurs starting new sauces and one about Blair Lazar’s charity efforts with his hot sauces sales:
Brighton entrepreneur launches home made hot sauce
Chilehead is making his dreams come true
Blair’s Death Sauce Is Spreading [...]

It’s always gratifying to read about the spread of the chilehead obsession throughout the world. Now we knew that the U.K. had some chileheads of note, but this article from the Daily Mail Online spells it out in graphic detail, and we loved every word of it:
Some like it mind-blowingly hot: Meet the ‘chilli [...]

While we’re waiting for the newsreels to spit out some newer stuff, enjoy this entertaining article from the Ventura County Reporter about one woman’s journey into the life of the chilehead:
For the love of burning taste buds
One woman’s hot confession
By Michael Sullivan
07/23/2009
“Hi! My name is Michael and I am a hot-sauce-lovin’ salsaholic.”
Although I can’t remember [...]

During our one and only (thus far) visit to Los Angeles, our very Passow was kind enough to direct us to one of his fave places for hot sauce shopping called Light My Fire. We wrote about this place once before, but it is in the news again so we thought it might be [...]

We here at the Hot Zone Online are baseball fans. Big-time ones. In fact, we even participate in a fantasy baseball league where the winners get dozens of bottles of hot sauce. Well, here is a shout-out for something that mixes America’s pastime with our favorite thing, hot sauce. We might [...]