The first big inventions/discoveries were fire and the wheel. Next, beer was created. From the yeast in beer we got bread. “How can we make bread better?” they asked. Sliced bread was the answer. Now many people say that there have been a few inventions “better than sliced bread”, square watermelons, soap on a rope, multi-colored duct tape. But none have surpassed the shear brilliance and wonderment of potato chip coated peanuts. Ladies, gentlemen, and chili-heads, I give you…Nutterz.

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If you live north of the U.S. Border in Canada and have a burning desire (a pun, get it?) to find a local hot sauce shoppe to do some of your holiday shopping, a recent article from The Ottawa Citizen recaps their top five places to go shopping:

Five Great places to get seasonings and sauces

If you’re not close enough to make it to any of these stores and want to maximize your Canadian dollar to its hot sauce fullest, check into some of these fine Canadian hot sauce makers:

Uncle Big’s
Peppermaster
Denzel’s Gourmet Foods
Hatari Bros.
Pepperheads Canada

It’s not just us young whipper-snappers that crave hot sauce and spicy fare, but apparently the older, wider generation has to have it as well. Check out this cool article from a few days back from the online Cleveland Examiner:

Why some Baby Boomers like it hot, hot, hot
November 19, 7:56 AM
by Paul Briand, Baby Boomer Examiner

As if aging Baby Boomers aren’t losing enough, add a loss of taste to the list.

We’re losing our hair, we need glasses for reading and distance, our hearing is going, and let’s not even get into the 401(k) losses.

Our sense of taste is going too, and as a result, our hankering for hotter and hotter, spicier and spicier foods is growing.

Here’s an interesting statistic, gleaned from a recent AARP Magazine article with the headline “Some Like It Hotter”: In 1998, each person in the United States consumed 4.7 pounds of chili peppers (that excludes bell peppers, by the way). In 2007, our per person consumption of chili peppers jumped to 6.3 pounds per person.

Click here to read the rest of the source article from Cleveland’s Examiner.com

All of us here at the Hot Zone Online wish our readers a very happy Thanksgiving holiday!

We know that things have been pretty slow around here in terms of posting lately, but we expect things to pick up a bit in the next few weeks. Stay tuned for more reviews and news from the world of hot sauces and spicy fare!!!

Hard to tell whether or not this is an internet marketing stunt or if it’s a genuine chilehead trying to make a new resource for fellow chileheads. I guess time will tell whether this blog is a flash in the pan in the hot and spicy world or whether this new blog will have any staying power. For now, do check it out:

What Lights Your Fire?

Chilli Heads Unite

Brattleboro, Vermont 11/18/2008 05:07 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)

Marketing mad man and List Building Guru Telllman Knudson is at it again. He wants to know what lights you up. He is putting the call out for all Hot sauce lovers to send in reviews of their favorite Hot Sauces. The CEO and founder of Overcome Everything Inc. has created a wiki “to provide a place to talk about what we love most in this world…HOT SAUCE.” He is hoping for outlandish reviews of the hot sauces we love and hate.

There is a large subculture of individuals who are fanatical about hot sauce and Knudson hopes they will get on board and share their tastes. “This is about a community representing, and it is also about the gathering of a unique group of individuals who like to live on the extreme side of life.”

Click here to read the rest of the source article from the Trans World News

We don’t use, or even see, the Mad Dog products as much as we do some others…but it’s hard to miss this headline when it pops across your screen, courtesy of PRWeb.com:

357 Mad Dog Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce World Record Setting Pepper Comes to Mad Dog World of Hot Sauces

From the creator of the much acclaimed Mad Dog 357 Hot Sauce comes a new edition for heat seeking sauce lovers using the world’s newest champion of hot peppers - the Ghost Pepper.

Sudbury, Massachusetts (PRWEB) November 10, 2008 — Ashley Food Co., creator of the world’s hottest Mad Dog 357 Hot Sauce, has introduced a hot new edition: Mad Dog 357 Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce — a blend that’s bound to warm the hearts and obliterate the tongues of hot sauce collectors everywhere.

Master Sauce Crafter and Creator, David Ashley, whose sauces and extracts have won the accolades of heat seekers around the world, says, “In the world of hot peppers, the Ghost Pepper is the king the of hill. It was only natural to bring it to this super hot line of all natural Mad Dog 357 Hot Sauces.”

Called the Bhut Jolokia in its homeland of the Assam Region of Northeastern India, this pepper was first discovered by Paul Bosland, Professor at New Mexico State University, Regent. Guinness Book of World Records confirmed the finding that the “Ghost Pepper”, as it is translated, delivers 1,001,304 Scoville Heat Units (SHU) making it nearly two times hotter than the Red Savina, the prior champion pepper of heat.

Of course the Ghost Pepper isn’t the only ingredient that makes the new Mad Dog 357 Ghost Pepper a hot new contender for heat lovers. The bottle, that can be seen and purchased at ashleyfood.com, also boasts a unique holographic label with ghosts that appear to jump off the bottle. Combined with the fact that the warning label reads loud and clear about the extreme caution, it’s easy to see why this sauce will have people seeing their own ghost.

As David Ashley puts it, “The goal has always been to make hot sauces that are not just hot for hot sake, but instead, give heat lovers and sauce collectors sauces with complex flavor combined with true heat.” It’s one of the reasons why David Ashley says he also has his sauces measured using high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC); to not just state the heat, but to prove it as well.

For more information about Mad Dog 357 Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce and the complete line of hot sauces and barbeque sauces crafted by Ashley Food Company, visit www.ashleyfood.com.

This article is not copyrighted and is part of the public domain. It is printed in its entirety from its source at PRWeb.com.

Our friend and fellow chilehead Ed (a.k.a. ChileHeadEd…get it?) has a big announcement, which we are reproducing here for your reading pleasure. Try his sauces. All his sauces. Maybe he’ll even save us one of those collector’s bottles as well. That said, we’ve also added RedRum Sauces to our list of Sauce Mavens to be easily accessible from the blog sidebar. Enjoy the post…it’s long with lots of cool pics.

RedRum Hot Sauces are (Finally) Ready!

Well, after months (and months) of hearing me talk about my sauce it is finally ready to sell!

After the success of my first years sauce I decided to increase the amount I made in the second year. I had no idea how much more work I was taking on for myself when I planned out the project!

Anyway, In case you did not read about the first release (06 RedRum) here is my story…..

I am a chef and Hot sauce fanatic, Every year I grow a bunch of Hot Peppers in my garden, This year I smoked em with hickory Wood for 6 hours, here are some pics:

Hard to believe that it’s been well over a year since we reviewed any of Tahiti Joe’s fine hot sauces. In deference to his sauces, they’ve always been ones we’ve liked…but have allowed others to get in the way of us reviewing more of them than we had done up until now.

Well, it’s now time to make up for our history of overlooking these sauces. To start with, we delved into a bottle of Tropi-Garlic hot sauce with the all-too-sly name of Taheati attached to it. Not sure why this one piqued our interest more than some of the others, but the notion of a hot sauce with some Italian-stylin’ to it just seemed like a good idea.

First impression: I can pretty much cease commenting on the labels and overall look of the bottles, as they all are variations on a theme. A cartoonized version of TJ himself, with colors to match the ambience of the sauce within. Cracking open the bottle, the aroma is simply heavenly. I’m a big fan of garlic. In my regular dietary array, I might normally eat enough garlic to be vampire-repellant at any given time. That said, I really dug the garlicky scent to this sauce, which seems to be augmented with some other spices…probably basil if my olfactory detection was correct. As for the ingredients, these are simply variations on the Tahiti Joe base recipe for many of his sauces:

Ingredients: aged red pepper sauce, concentrated vegetable juices (water, tomato, lemon juice, lemon oil, salt, ascorbic acid, malic acid, dehydrated parsley, carrots, bell pepper, celery), distilled vinegar, honey, Worcestershire, clam juice, parmesan cheese, fresh garlic in water, fresh onions, fresh habaneros, fresh jalapenos, spices, tic gum

Taste: There are variety of good uses for this sauce, but the one I’ll show was used on some pork loin stuffed with wild rice and bell peppers…courtesy of Whole Foods Market. The pork itself was merely mediocre by itself, but was made a whole lot better by the addition of this sauce:

Continuing my series of reviews of product received at the 2008 Weekend of Fire is General Hurtin’ from Mild to Wild Pepper Company.This is a sauce in honor of Jim’s brother-in-law and part of the proceeds of the sauce go to the Lieutenant General Timothy J. Maude Foundation.

General Hurtin’ Ingredients: Our own hand selected Habanero peppers, vinegar, onions, garlic spices, herds, salt.

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Coming soon to the Big Dawg Salsa product line:

We have been hard at work on a Bloody Mary Mix…taste, texture and something to be proud of!

The label has been an ongoing collaboration with Darrell the Artist, Candy the critic and of course Tori Duck’s Number 1 fans her family who has missed her the last 5 years of their lives. Every aspect of it is a part of her. I miss and Love her too much… I hope to be half the person you were.

In Honor of you, Claudia!
Here is part of you legacy.

CLAUDIA this is for you!!!
Claudia LaNell Horton
Feb 13, 1960 - April 15, 2003
I Miss you daily.

You, Claudia touched many lives and if I can spread you love and Your Vivacity I will.

Love candy

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