Have an iPhone or an iPod Touch? Believe it or not, there are actually downloadable apps from the iTunes App Store that deal specifically with our pepper passions…

Chile Pepper App Links:

ChilliFarm – http://www.chillifarm.info

Scoville – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scoville-iPhone-App/302786845717

Are you feeling bummed that you won’t get to attend this year’s Fiery Foods and BBQ Show? Here’s something that might lift your fiery spirits – I’m having a contest that’s open for those who are stuck at home or work during the FFS. This is a cool little giveaway that will include the following as the hot sauce prize pack for the winner:

Welcome back Benito. We were excited to try your ‘Original Naranja’. The last sauce of yours ‘White Heat’ was so very good and unusual. This sparked our curiosity and saliva glands to try your other sauces. I want to be sitting by the river shown on your label tasting great hot sauce. Let’s all sit by river and relax and taste “Original Naranja’.

I received a jar of Original Cajun Chow-Chow from the folks at Mossy Bayou Foods.

Like a great many BBQ sauces, Walt’s Spicy Barbeque Sauce originates from a namesake restaurant (technically, there’s now a trio of locations in the Cincinnati, Ohio area). I was impressed with what I had tasted in Walt’s milder sauces, so I acquired a jar or two of their fieriest version for review at home to [...]

The Top 5 Most Over Used Spices

​We bring you our top 5 list of most over used spices to save you from being a victim of over spiced syndrome. We want you to enjoy your food not spit it out.

This product comes from the creator Todd Courtney, out of Sevema Park, MD. He sent three samples, Crabby Dirt, Bayou Dirt & this review is The Original Dirt.

Let’s give a rundown of Lizard’s on the Bayou Gila Venom Habanero Sauce’s accolades: it was 2006 ZestFest’s Peoples’ Preference Hot Sauce Award winner, a 2007 Golden Chile Award, placing 3rd in the Pepper Blend category, and a 2008 1st Place Scovie Award in the Habanero Hot Sauce category. Not a bad list for a sauce, so let’s see how it holds up to my humble little palette.

Introduction:
 

You will have to forgive the half empty bottle.  I started using it before I had a chance to review it and couldn’t stop.  I guess that is a good precursor to a review.
Appearance:
Appearance is where this sauce really pops.  You can see throught he bottle that it has some real substance to it and [...]

Little Willie’s Grenade Sauce – Hot

Appearance:
One of the first things that strikes you is that this doesn’t look like your standard salsa (it says “Sauce”, but it strikes me more as salsa so I will run with it).  From the outside, it has an orangish dull yellow color with noticeable chunks of onions and carrots.  [...]