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Hot Sauce Giveaway Contest Drawing
I wanted to have a contest for all those unable to visit the recent Fiery Foods and BBQ Show (I've been in the same boat many times!) because this website is for everybody in the greater chilehead community, not just those who get to attend hot shows all the time. So I decided to give away a prize pack for one lucky individual. This past Saturday I posted a video of myself holding up a phrase on a sheet of paper and to enter the contest all one had to do was simply e-mail me that phrase.
51 people submitted entries in the time allotted, and I put their names on slips of paper in a bowl for the drawing. Watch the video to see who wins...
This is not affiliated with the National Fiery Foods and Barbecue Show or Sunbelt Shows, Inc.
Odds 'N Ends
I'm back home trying to readjust to the rigamarole of normal life since returning from the Fiery Foods Show. Here's a short update to say what's going on:
I'm in the beginning stages of penning a full account of this past weekend's events. Expect something in the next few days.
I've got a couple of additional photos to upload from the weekend and a lot of photo captions to write. Nothing terribly exciting, mind you, but still noteworthy in my opinion.
I'll have a drawing for the giveaway contest this Wednesday.
I'm also going to spend a lot of time doing a great deal of website and graphic design, some for clients many of you know very well.
2010 Fiery Foods Show Day Two and Three Photos
Saturday and Sunday consisted of more Fiery Foods Show mayhem and a bloggers trip to Santa Fe in quest of a great green chile cheeseburger (as well as shopping).
Saturday | Sunday Three, Day One | Sunday Three, Day Two
Fiery Foods Show At-Home Giveaway Contest
You could win this awesome hot sauce prize pack if you copy the phrase I hold up on this sheet of paper verbatim (include any punctuation, hyphens, cross every t and dot every i). You can be eligible only if you are not attending any of the 3 days of the Fiery Foods Show in Albuquerque, NM in 2010. Send the phrase to the e-mail address in this video to enter. You have until 11:59 PM Central Time Monday, March 8, 2010 to enter. Any e-mails received after that date and time will be disqualified.
This is not affiliated with the National Fiery Foods and Barbecue Show or Sunbelt Shows, Inc.
2010 Fiery Foods Show Day One Photos
I was mostly tasty and meeting exhibitors today on Friday of the Fiery Foods Show, but I did manage to snap a few photos as well:
2010 Fiery Foods Show Day One Photos Part One | 2010 Fiery Foods Show Day One Photos Part Two
Contest Video to Be Posted Tomorrow
I will be posting the Hot Sauce Giveaway Contest video tomorrow, Saturday March 6 at 12:30 pm Eastern/ 11:30 am Central.
If you were unable to attend the Fiery Foods Show this weekend, then this is the contest just for you. Simply couple the phrase I will hold up on a sheet of paper verbatim and e-mail it to be. Good luck!
Wagons West - Heading Out to the Fiery Foods Show
Time to hitch up the horses and hit the trail - I'm almost ready to go westward towards Albuquerque, New Mexico, home of the National Fiery Foods and Barbecue Show. The event, which is in its 22nd year, is touted to be the largest trade show and convention of its kind in the world.
Myself and other chilehead bloggers - including Joe Levinson of The Hot Zone Online and Al "Buddah" Goldenberg of I Love It Spicy - will be there in full force, speaking with the exhibitors, sampling the latest spicy products, snapping photos and getting video for the benefit of all of you who unfortunately cannot attend.
If you yourself are planning to the Fiery Foods Show on Friday, Saturday or Sunday and happen to spot us in the ginormous masses of Fiery Foods Show attendees, please say "hi"! We promise we won't bite...hard!
This will be my last regular blog post before traveling to the Land of Enchantment (New Mexico's state nickname). Keep ScottRobertsWeb.com bookmarked (along with the other fine sites I mentioned earlier), for this weekend I'll be posting reports and uploading oodles of pictures from the show.
Follow my up-to-the-minute exploits in New Mexico on my Twitter account. I plan to post several updates a day before, during and after the show with plenty of photos. (By the way, if you want to follow ALL Fiery Food Show Twitter updates, search for the #NFFS hashtag.)
Don't forget that some time on Saturday I'll be posting a video for the hot sauce giveaway contest that any of you at home can enter to win! Sometime this coming Friday or early Saturday morning I'll be announcing the time that the video will be posted; copy the phrase that's in the video and send it to me in an e-mail and I'll put you in a drawing to win the prize pack.
Last but not least, the Fiery Foods and BBQ SuperSite promises to have streaming video this weekend of the show, right on their web page. Don't forget to hit their site several times to tune into both live and pre-recorded segments.
Review - Race City Sauce Works
In my humble li'l opinion, Race City Sauce Works is one of the brightest new stars in the hot sauce world as of late. Owner Chad Lowcock and company boast a small but growing collection of fine sauces; among them is the delicious Lucky Dog Smokey Habanero Honey Mustard, and I'm still figuratively kicking myself for not picking up more at last year's Weekend of Fire show. I'm pledging to remedying that situation soon! But until then, Chad has generously provided a couple of newer condiments for me to try. The first is the scorching, bhut jolokia-infused 98 Octane Ghost Pepper Reserve and the second is a brand spankin' and mysterious new sauce called The Green Fairy Absinthe Inferno.
I must note that both bottles have had their tops dipped and coated in a wax resin. Collectors love these things and I think they're cool looking, but I always feel a tiny bit guilty for having to remove the wax in order to open the bottles, because they're "meant" to double as collector's items. But I am NOT a collector; I have only about 10 bottles of hot sauce that I'm intent on never opening. So off goes the wax because I wanna taste these sauces!
Catch My Appearance on The BBQ Central Radio Show Tomorrow Night
Don't miss the BBQ Central Radio Show's episode tomorrow, Tuesday, March 2nd. BBQ legend Johnny Trigg of Smokin' Trggers and TV's BBQ Pitmasters will be the main guest, and show host Greg Rempe will have a segment on what it takes to open your own barbecue restaurant. In the third segment, I will join Greg for my monthly assessment on a few BBQ sauces and rubs I've tried and tell you, the listening audience, whether or not I think they're worthy of your time and hard-earned money.
You can tune in live at 9:00 PM Eastern/8:00 PM Central at http://www.thebbqcentralshow.com, or listen to the show at a later date by subscribing and downloading the podcast at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bbq-central-radio-show/id279116889.
Review of Chile Pepper iPhone Apps
Chile Pepper App Links:
ChilliFarm - http://www.chillifarm.info
Scoville - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scoville-iPhone-App/302786845717
Can't Make it to the Fiery Foods Show? Here's a Contest Giveaway Just For You
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...
New Spicy Websites Launch and Promise Video Hi-jinks
After much recent teasing and stringing along I've done as of late, a pair of chile-related websites have made their debut - ILoveItSpicy.com and SpicyRV.com.
I Love It Spicy
Al "Buddah" Goldenberg, myself and other chileheads have debuted a new
blog called I
Love It Spicy that's geared toward covering everything from
reviews to product recommendations to industry shows & festivals and
more, all on video.
Buddah is currently chronicling activities from this past weekend's
North Market Fiery Foods Festival in Columbus, Ohio that he captured
on video - a jalapeno eating contest, a wing contest, and lots more
excitement from the show that you don't want to miss.
There are big plans in the works for I Love It Spicy team getting clips of next week's National Fiery Foods & BBQ Show in Albuquerque, New Mexico on video. There has also been talk about me getting hypnotized on camera during the show, but I can neither confirm nor deny those claims...
Catch the fun at ILoveItSpicy.com or follow us on Twitter at @ILoveItSpicy.
Spicy RV
Spicy RV is a
group of wild, ragtag chileheads (headed up by the possibly sane,
probably insane James Beck of EatMoreHeat.com) who will be commandeering a tour
bus and attempt to make a fiery pilgrimage from Houston, Texas to the
National Fiery Foods & BBQ Show (abbreviated NFFS below). The road
trip will be documented on their blog both in written and video formats, so
be sure to track their progress closely as they eat some of the
spiciest food on earth, drink enough margaritas to make even Nick
Nolte's and Gary Busey's livers scream for mercy, and hopefully keep
the Highway Patrol at bay before making its grand arrival at the NFFS
next week.
Follow Spicy RV's psycho circus on wheels on Twitter at @SpicyRV and
through their RSS
Feed.
Follow the Spicy RV crew individually on Twitter: @EatMoreHeat, @TexasFood, @GunsandTacos, @psedillo and @PedroThePepper
What's More...
Before I close this post out, I shouldn't neglect to mention that the NFFS event that both of these websites will be visiting will be joined by the Fiery Foods and BBQ SuperSite itself in providing online video. From March 5th through 7th, you can watch both pre-recorded and live streaming segments from the NFFS at Fiery-Foods.com.
Letter From the UK - February 2010
A bit late with news this month from the UK, we had a quick family holiday, but we did use the evening to taste some sauces, the results coming up next month.
So what has been happening at the ChileFoundry since my last report,
well we reported on a number of local UK suppliers
including the Dartmoor Chilli Farm who are taking an Organic and
Holistic view on growing Chillies and the Cambridge Chilli Farm whose
Raspberry and Chilli Jam had a rave review for us by ChilliPepperPete
We also reviewed The Chilli Jam Man's Oak Smoked Garlic
& Chipotle Jam, The Chilli Pepper Company's Dragon's
Breath which was a Caribbean Style Hot Sauce that has been made with fresh Bhut Jolokia chillies. The Marie Sharps Grapefruit Pulp Habanero Pepper Sauce was reviewed by Darth Naga and he was very impressed of the combination...
Review - Heartbreaking Dawns Hot Sauces
Heartbreaking Dawns is an up-and-coming sauce maker hailing from upstate New York. They're steadily making themselves known to the fiery foods world with an intriguing assortment of hot sauces: Classic Gold, Mango Habanero and Jalapeno Pineapple. They and I made out initial communication via Twitter (hey, who says that the social networking giant has no merit?) and before you know it, I had a package of their hot sauces in my hands. Here is my take on each one individually...
Review - California Habanero Blends Ginger Garlic Habanero Hot Sauce
Here's a sauce that I think has a very narrow scope. California Habanero Blends Ginger Garlic Habanero Sweet Mild Heat Hot Sauce certainly wouldn't be as versatile as it touts itself to be on the bottle, but for what it does do, you may discover it that it adds that little bit of difference you're craving to spice up hum-drum meals...
FireTalkers - Interview with Wayne Brawley of 2 Brothers Salsa
Here's the story: Texan Chef Wayne Brawley obtained a large amount of fresh tomatoes from his mother, so instead of letting them go to waste he decided to fire roast half of them and concoct a salsa recipe from them. Wayne's family became big fans of his newly-spawned product, in particular his brother Wesley, who encouraged Wayne to continue to make salsa and suggested he tried to sell it in stores. Wesley had passed away in 2004. Wayne entered a pair of salsa contests with his chipotle-infused creation and took home First Place prizes for both. Believing he had a viable product on his hands, Wayne decided to take his brother's urgings to market the salsa to retail locations around Texas. In honor of his late brother, he called it 2 Brothers Salsa.
I've asked Wayne some questions to shed additional light on his past, his company and salsa today, and what lies ahead for him and industry...
Scott: Where are you and your family from geographically?
Wayne: We live in the North Dallas area currently. My wife and I both...
A New Heat Scale for Chile Peppers?
A Whole New Scale Of Hot
Feb. 18, 2010
Peter Piper picked a pepper. If he had the new technology developed by one Baylor professor and his research team, he could have discovered just how hot the pepper was.
By Sara Tirrito
Staff writer
Dr. Kenneth Busch, professor and co-director of the Center for Analytical Spectroscopy, and his research team have eliminated the need for liquid chromatography in determining the heat of chili peppers...
Feeling Brave? The Fiery Foods Festival Might Be For You...
Februarys in Columbus, Ohio can count on getting warmed up by the annual North Market Fiery Foods Festival. If you live anywhere in the area, you'll want to check out the event this coming weekend. As always, our friends over at The Hot Zone Online (being the Ohio natives that they are) will provide excellent coverage.
The Fiery Foods Festival (not to be confused with the national Fiery Foods and Barbecue Show in Albuquerque) also gets some local media coverage, such as this from the Columbus Dispatch:
"You don't have to be a professional chef to compete in the Fiery Foods Festival
"The 7th annual event Saturday at the North Market includes contests for amateurs. They can compete against other homemade salsa makers or amatuer hot sauce creators.
"The truly adventurous can sign up the day of the event to compete in the Hot Pepper Eating or Wings of Fire contest. The person with the iron mouth can win prizes from Cajohns Fiery Foods.
"Local professional chefs will also compete in the Chef Chili Challenge. There will also be vendors, musical acts and other events.
"Not brave enough to compete? Visitors can still...
Review - Bainbridge Island Barbeque BBQ Sauces and Hot Sauces
Proprietor Gregory Epstein runs BIBBQ, which is short for Bainbridge Island Barbeque, and is named for the picturesque swath of land that is a stone's throw from Seattle, Washington across the Puget Sound. With BIBBQ, Greg aims to treat those in the Pacific Northwest with some down-home barbecue in an area not typically know for low n' slow, smoked n' grilled meats. Greg had shipped me two of his BBQ sauces, Chipotle Honey Barbeque Sauce (a past Scovie Award winner) and Bainbridge Habanero Barbeque Sauce, along with a quartet of hot sauces: Cranberry Star Fruit, Asid Reign, Devil's Blood and Sour Apple...
Chile Pepper iPhone App - ChilliFarm
Need something that will identify chile peppers on the go? Well, Stefan Wallington sponsored by the South Devon Chilli Farm (SDCF), both from the UK, have whipped up an iPhone app that contains a small database containing information and photos on various chiles plus loads of recipes. Called Chilli Farm, it sells for 99 cents in Apple's App Store.
I admittedly have not personally bought this yet, and my pre-purchase take on this is that since iPhones can internet access wherever there is coverage, you can simply surf to various websites to obtain this information (especially The Chileman or my own Scoville Scale). Still, the convenience of having all the data in one place coupled with the fact that this most likely leaps and bounds faster than reaching the web with 3G speeds probably outweighs the one dollar price tag.
To get it, just search for ChilliFarm made by SW Comms Ltd or click here.
Thanks to The Chile Foundry for bringing this to my attention.
