Here is a video of WBTV-CBS Charlotte, North Carolina TV reporter, Kristen Hampton, eat a decent-sized chink of pepper that looks to the successor to Smokin’ Ed’s Carolina Reaper, which is currently the world’s hottest chile pepper. The producer of both the Carolina Reaper and this new hotter strain, the HP-56, Ed Currie of Puckerbutt Pepper Company, look to debut this new contender soon with an unofficial SHU level of around 3 million. More details to come…
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Episode #77 – Hot Sauce Industry History Chat with Chip Hearn of Peppers and CaJohn Hard of CaJohn’s Fiery Foods
In the second part of his coverage of the NYC Hot Sauce Expo, Scott chat with Hot Sauce Hall of Fame Nominees Chip Hearn of Peppers and John “CaJohn” Hard of CaJohn’s Fiery Foods, as they talk about the history of the fiery foods industry. Ken Alexander also discusses whether or not to refrigerate hot sauces, and Scott has sage advice on his to get rid of mosquitoes around camp sites.
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Here’s a handy infographic guide to many of the different types of knives you’ll encounter in the kitchen and in outdoor cooking.
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Here is a guide to many low-heat and medium-heat chile peppers in this handy chile pepper guide infographic:
In eastern North Carolina, this type of spiced vinegar sauce offsets the richness of smoked, BBQ pork.
Makes 2 Cups
Ingredients
1 cup distilled white vinegar
1 cup apple cider vinegar
1 tbsp. sugar
1 tbsp. crushed red chile flakes
1 tbsp. hot sauce
1 tbsp. kosher salt
1 tsp. ground black pepper
½ tsp. paprika
Directions
Combine vinegars, sugar, chile flakes, hot sauce, salt, pepper, and paprika in a storage container.
Hailing from the egregiously-underrated hotbed of spicy pepper sauce activity in the great country of Costa Rica, Ricante Hot Sauces is a family-owned company started by Ricky Ricante by using fresh chiles from his backyard. He combined them with fruits such as mangos (a staple of many sweet hot sauces) to create what would become his flagship product, OG Mango Caliente.
Later, Ricante Hot Sauces would branch out not only in their native Costa Rica, but also in Southern California, North Eastern Ohio, Virgina, South Carolina, North Carolina, Illinois and other select markets throughout the UNited STates. Armed with four other sauces, Fire Melons, Manzana Encendida, Pine Dulce and Chipotle Bueno (all of which I will review today for you today), Ricante aims to become one of the bigger players in the international fiery foods industry.
I’ll first go through the five sauces, list off the ingredients, and give you my initial impressions of them…
This awesome, mega-delicious homemade blueberry BBQ sauce recipe is one you have to try is you love your barbecue sauce to be on the slightly fruity and sweet side. I would include myself in that group, but it had better be an extremely balanced and tasty sweet BBQ sauce and not overpowering in the fruitiness department.
Thankfully, this blueberry BBQ sauce is wonderful, and has a little something for everyone – sweetness from the blueberries and brown sugar, tartness from the red wine vinegar and balsamic vinegar, smokiness from the chipotle chiles, spiciness from the habanero, and full body and rich savoriness from the rest of the ingredients.
Mmmm-mmmm! Time to make some good stuff!
Ingredients…
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