With 30+ products sitting on my shelf to do reviews upon, the first thing I pick up is…a bag of Hoppin’ Hot Habanero potato chips by D.W. Mikesell. This wasn’t a review by design but rather by circumstance. I had actually gone to snack upon something else, only to have Linda quickly snatch it from me because the kids wanted to eat it. My consolation prize? This bag of “spicy” potato chips she picked up at one of our local grocery mega-markets.
Ingredients: potatoes, peanut oil, salt, maltodextrin, whey, dextrose, garlic, spices, sugar, habanero peppers, onion, citric acid, silicon dioxide, paprika extract
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It’s always a pleasure to do reviews on spicy snack fare, and beef jerky is no exception. Jerky itself, I’m told, is fairly easy to make. That said, few jerky makers seem to make jerky fairly well. Too dry. Too touch. Too bland. The list goes on and on. I give credit to those, however, who at least pay enough homage to the chileheads of the world by making some spicy jerky to try to please their palates.
In that same vein, we were delighted to receive an email from Amy Williams from Williams and Conner, who are Texan purveyors of some quality beef and deer jerky. They offer five distinct varieties of beef jerky, of which the Pepper Trio Beef Jerky appears to be their spiciest one. Quite honestly, all their varieties look as though they would be quite good, but I was saving my opinion for their spicy version to see how it stacks up against some others that I’ve tasted.
Ingredients: beef whole muscle, soy sauce (water, wheat, soy beans, salt, sodium benzoate), water, hickory smoke flavor, worcestershire sauce (distilled white vinegar, water, molasses, high fructose corn syrup, salt, soy sauce, natural flavoring, caramel coloring, anchovies, polysorbate 80, soy flour, garlic extract), garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper
An extraordinary blend of cayenne pepper, black pepper, and crushed red pepper brings the bold taste of the southwest to you.
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Moving on to the next tasty potato chip from the Kettle Brand line are these Spicy Thai chips. What’s so cool about Kettle Brand is that these chips weren’t even on the list of five varieties we were asked to try that were on their “hot & spicy” list. As it turns out, Kettle Brand has discontinued their five flavors of hot & spicy that we had originally tried, as they have settled on the Death Valley Chipotle as being the People’s Choice for this year. That said, we continued to plow through these chips just to continue to explore the Kettle Brand version of hot and spicy.
Ingredients: select Russet potatoes, expeller pressed high monounsaturated safflower and/or sunflower oil, honey powder, (evaporated cane syrup, honey) salt, garlic powder, jalapeno pepper, ground ginger, onion powder, habanero pepper, dried parsley, citric acid, cilantro extract, ginger oil, cayenne pepper, white pepper, lime oil
The ingredients list is pretty similar to the Organic Chipotle Chili Barbecue chips, but without some of the ingredients being listed as “organic.” Their look has a nice aesthetic appeal, as you can see the spice-laden chips as they came out of the bag:
Taste: The emphasis with this chip is spicy, but not hot. Despite habanero and jalapeno peppers being listed as two of the ingredients, it’s fairly modest in terms of its heat. However, the chips themselves are very tasty and munchable. The honey and ginger adds a non-sugary sweetness that you won’t find in most store-bought chips, whose sweetness comes from stuff like high fructose corn syrup. This sweetness is very complex, yet subtle, and melds nicely with the other spices to make another snack with wide taste appeal. A five-ounce bag barely lasted long enough once opened for us to scrawl down our tasting notes before it disappeared.
Overall recommendation: Another winning spicy snack chip from Kettle Brand, but I hope they decide to start packaging these chips in more than five-ounce bags. Such a small amount is not enough, especially if you’re mail-ordering these from the company. If you do decide to pick some up, you’re in for a treat. These aren’t a prototypical Thai spicing as we imagined it, but these chips are spicy-sweet, loaded with ginger, and destined for extinction in short order once you open the bag. Enjoy!
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Several weeks ago, we received a package that contained a selection of hot & spicy potato chips from Kettle Brand Chips. In addition to looking forward to having the chance to taste them, we had hoped to be able to crank out a few reviews on those. Unfortunately, we nibbled those chips to extinction without so much as writing a word about them. Whoops! Well, we decided to rectify that by coughing up a few bucks to get some more chips to review and in the process we also picked up a few extra varieties to try as well. This variety, the Organic Chipotle Chili Barbecue chips, were one of the “extras” we picked up, and thought it would a good review to introduce ourselves to Kettle Brand Chips.
Ingredients: organic select Russet potatoes, organic expeller pressed high monounsaturated safflower and/or sunflower oil, organic dehydrated vegetables (organic tomato, organic onion, organic garlic, organic jalapeno pepper), organic evaporated cane juice, sea salt, organic spices (organic cayenne pepper, organic chili powder, organic chipotle chili powder, organic parsley), citric acid
I really like the whole organic notion with food, but there’s something a little odd about applying the term organic to any food that’s deep-fried and snack-y like potato chips. That said, I give credit to Kettle Brand for putting this sort of product out there. Now, will the taste match up to the notion that organic is better, and where does this product rate in the whole hot & spicy foods spectrum? The proof, is in the bag:
Taste: This chip has a very distinct spicy-sweet flavor that’s certainly more barbecue than chipotle. While being somewhat reminiscent of other BBQ potato chips currently on the market, there’s just enough chipotle flavor to distinguish this chip from others like it. Make no mistake, this is NOT a spicy-hot potato chip. In fact, it barely rates a 2/10 on my heat scale with its meager amount of chipotle. However, it’s a truly taste-worthy chip in which the bag was rapidly consumed in a single sitting. The chips are decently thick, so you won’t have to worry that your bag will be full of crumbs, either.
Overall recommendation: For a barbecue-flavored potato chip, this one’s worthy of your efforts to try it. While not overly hot, it has a nice spicy-sweet flavor that will appeal to a broad amount of people. The fact that this product is made from all-organic ingredients is such a bonus, and I’d certainly pick up another bag of this flavor if I saw it on the grocery store shelves. Enjoy!
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You can guarantee that whenever olives come into this house they are all mine. Joe has never liked olives, but I love them. I’ve had them in things, on things and by themselves. Each way they are fantastic. But, some are better than others.
Many, many years ago I discovered the way olives are made better. Olives gain a lot of character when they are stuffed with peppers. I originally tried olives with jalepenos, which used to be highly popular…until people decided to start filling them with peppers that pack a punch. Then came the habaneros. Mmmmm…habaneros. That’s where this product comes into play. » Continue Reading
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I’m not sure why, but I’ve just had a taste for dill pickles lately. Pretty sure I’m not pregnant (which would make news), nor do I think I’m craving salty stuff, but I just have not been able to find stuff at any of my local grocery stores that have had enough spice or heat to it to satisfy my cravings. With the exception of the big barrels of pickles at Jungle Jim’s, I have found few sources of spicy pickles worth spending time finding let alone eating. So, my quest for good spicy pickles began recently with some Google-hunting to see what was out there. Many moons ago, we did a post about spicy pickles which I used as my starting point to search. However, those were ones that I didn’t exactly like the look of them right now…so I found two other candidates for my good vs. evil battle of the spicy pickles.
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Jackson’s Extreme Habanero Beef Jerky …
…Featuring Scotty B’s OBLIVION!
What a fine thing it is to find an unexpected package in the mail…unless it’s ticking. That was what happened the other day when out of the clear blue sky I find a package from Arizona Jack in my mailbox!
I open this sucker up and it’s a generous size package of habanero jerky. But not just any habanero jerky, No no no my good friends. This jerky had the privilege of bathing in Scotty B’s near legendary Oblivion sauce. Goodness!
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Jackson’s Signature Series Awesome Habanero Beef Jerky Extreme Ingredients: Beef, Spices.
I received a surprise package from Arizona Jack the other day containing his latest creation, an extreme beef jerky. I still have so many products to review from the Fiery Foods show, but since beef jerky does not last long in my hands, I decided to bump it up to the front of the line.
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Wow how time flies. It’s been almost two years since Joe and Linda interviewed our buddies over at Kato Productions. Mick and Rita have been turning out some great products including their newest creation, Hemi Hot Sauce, so we felt it was time to do a little catching up.
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I met up with Doug from Jersey Boyz Jerky when I was at the Fiery Foods Show and he slipped me something under the table. Fearing that it was a mafia bribe I looked at my hand, I was close in my fears. Doug had given me their new product, Jersey Boyz Habanero Dusted Beef Jerky, for review.
Popularity: 21% [?]
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