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May 2nd, 2012
Steve “The Machine” Smallwood Attempts Chile Pepper World Record At Peppers At The Beach

If you are a hot pepper addict and can’t resist the call of Fiery Foods then you are in luck. Peppers, one of the biggest Hot Sauce Stores in America is proud to announce their Peppers at the Beach Tailgate Party at Rehoboth Beach on May 18th through May 20th. In their 3rd year, Peppers at the Beach is once again showing the Chile Pepper community why this is turning into one of the biggest shows in the country. Promising over 100 chefs and vendors in attendance showing off their line of products, free food tastings, chicken wing contests with jumbo wings provided by Mountaire Farms and topped off with the much anticipated attempt of breaking the world record for eating the hottest peppers in the world.

This year exclusively at Peppers at the Beach with the additional honor of Peppers Hot Sauce Store, Eat More Heat, High River Sauces, Chile Pepper Magazine, Scott Roberts and Endorphin Farms of sponsoring the living legend Steve “The Machine” Smallwood for attempting to break the Guinness Book of World Records. Steve will attempt to break the world record of eating the most Bhut Jolokia’s in one minute. The current record was achieved by Birgit Tack of Germany on April 2, 2011 by eating 3 Bhut Jolokia’s in 1 minute and 11 seconds (View Record Here: http://bit.ly/IsuDI4). Smallwood will also set the stage by being the first person ever to set the World Record for the eaten the most Scorpion Peppers in one minute.

“I started my passion with spicy food like everyone else. I grew up eating Tabasco, Franks, Texas Pete and Cholula hot sauces. Once I discovered the Bhut Jolokia “Ghost Pepper” I had to try them and it was love at first taste.” States Smallwood on his love of the spicier things in life. Steve “The Machine” Smallwood is no stranger when it comes to breaking records either. “I heard about the Weekend of Fire at Jungle Jim’s and they had a Defcon Sauces Death Match Wing Contest. I entered the contest and ended up winning it with a record time of 10 wings in 58 seconds.” Adds Smallwood…. Continue reading →

There are super-hot chile varieties. And then there’s the sweat-inducing, tear-generating, mouth-on-fire Trinidad Moruga Scorpion.

With a name like that, it’s not surprising that months of research by the experts at New Mexico’s State University’s Chile Pepper Institute have identified the variety as the new hottest pepper on the planet.

The golf ball-sized pepper scored the highest among a handful of chile breeds reputed to be among the hottest in the world. Its mean heat topped more than 1.2 million units on the Scoville heat scale, while fruits from some individual plants reached 2 million heat units.

“You take a bite. It doesn’t seem so bad, and then it builds and it builds and it builds. So it is quite nasty,” Paul Bosland, a renowned pepper expert and director of the chile institute, said of the pepper’s… Continue reading →

Union County, Illinois’ annual Pepperfest is quickly become an up-and-coming favorite gathering for chileheads and hot pepper fans throughout the Midwest, with some folks coming from as far as Washington, D.C. and Seattle, Washington. The event for 2011 will be held on September 3rd from 11am – 5pm at Rancho Bella Vista, 827 Vines Rd Cobden, IL.

The festival will have all the Jiménez clan working from sun up until sundown, picking chile peppers, making fresh salsa and homemade jams, jellies and processed chile pepper products, stringing up ristras, giving cooking classes, walking tours of the pepper fields to show folks the many varieties of hot pepper pods in bloom. Continue reading →