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Review - Intensity Academy Chai Chipotle Q Barbecue Sauce
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My good friends at Intensity Academy certainly have a way with their chai tea and green tea-infused sauces and have added a brand spankin' new one to the line - a barbecue sauce appropriately called Chai Chipotle Q (you know, short for BBQ). Debuting yet another barbecue sauce in an already flooded market can be a risky proposition, so this had better be an outstanding product. Read on to see what I thought...
Game Show Featuring Jolokia Pepper Eating
Hatch Chile Festival 2009
Coming up the weekend after the Austin Hot Sauce Festival (which also happens to be Labor Day weekend) is the famous Hatch Valley Chile Festival 2009 which will be situated outside the tiny town of Hatch, New Mexico. 30,000 hardcore chilehead fanatics will congregate in numerous activities including a chili cook-off, chile roasting, a parade, chile pod competition, carnival rides and contests galore, plus great food and great times for all.
For more information, go to the official Hatch Chile Festival website.
Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival
If you live anywhere around Austin, Texas, you owe it to yourself to attend the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival next Sunday, August 30th! There will be live music, great local food, and plenty of hot sauce and salsa to try out! Also, be sure to bring three non-perishable food items per person (as a donation to Capital Area Food Bank of Texas) for free admittance...
Review - Buffalo Wild Wings Desert Heat and Pepper Infusion Wings
Buffalo Wild Wings has recently introduced two new flavors to their signature wing line. In this recent case, it is one dry rub seasoning - Desert Heat, and one liquid sauce - Pepper Infusion. This past Thursday I ordered wings with both flavorings, and in the interest of minimizing the mess, I acquired the boneless "wings" which can be eaten with a fork. The following is my review...
Ol' Man Stillmanz Chilli Wing Competition 2009
Direct from Down Under is the 2009 Ol' Man Stillmanz Chilli Wing Competition, held at the at the Seaview in Brisbane Australia!
The Burn Buzz - Spicy Food News 8/21/09
It's another installment of The Burn Buzz! Here are more hot n' interesting links about spicy food and BBQ that have been floating around on the intertubes lately. Each one may not merit a blog post all to itself, but they all are worth mentioning:
Fast Casual Trends - Hot Sauce and Spicy Menus Attract Scores of Customers - The growing market for spicy foods
The Information: The World's Hottest Chillies
World's Earliest Pit Barbecue?
Pleasure or Addiction: A Secret Family Recipe For Hot Sauce
How to Make Hot Sauce - WikiHow's page on hot sauce making instructions, including a video
Kickoff Party for Central Market's version of the Hatch Chile Festival
Great Review Of The Stubb's Bar-B-Q Cookbook
Review - Twodogs Unleashed Sweet Hidden Heat Salish
Is it a salsa or a relish? How about what they call a "salish"? I found that it's also a top-notch sauce, spread, and dip. It's sweet, tangy, mustardy, spicy, savory all rolled into one unique condiment. In concept it may not sound like it would work, but boy, does it! Sweet Hidden Heat Salish is one of the most unique - and satisfying - food products I've tried all year.
Branching Out Yet Again
In addition to posting spicy food reviews on PeppersAnd More.com, I am now also going to be a guest reviewer on the EatMoreHeat.com blog! I look forward to sharing my thoughts and opinions with brand new readers, as well as working with the other excellent reviewers at that website. I urge anyone who regularly reads ScottRobertsWeb.com to also come over and visit both EatMoreHeat.com and PeppersAnd More.com, because one can never get enough hot sauce...
Review - ABC Sambal Extra Pedas Extra Hot Chili Sauce
I reviewed Huy Fong Foods' Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce in July of this year, and discovered that I simply disagreed with the vast majority of the commentors and reviewers' assessment of the sauce. They loved it, and as hard as I tried, I didn't. It possessed a taste attribute I just could not put my finger on - was it ultra-strong, almost bitter-tasting garlic? Was it horseradish (which was not even on the ingredient list)? Whatever it was it bugged me, and the odd flavor stood out enough for me not to recommend the condiment.
Along comes ABC Sambal Extra Pedas Extra Hot Chili Sauce, a product of Indonesia, and is imported by the Fusion Gourmet, Inc of Gardenia, California. It kept the aforementioned annoying flavor to a minimum and is everything that Sriracha should be - a delicious, spicy, perky, garlicky, and balanced blend of chiles and sweetness that could easily find it's home on many white-bread American dinner tables. If you are looking for a sauce or an ingredient that defiantly stays away from mediocrity, Extra Pedas is your answer.
Buffalo Wild Wings Introduce Two New Sauces
At participating locations, Buffalo Wild Wings is debuting two new sauce flavors - Desert Heat™ and Pepper Infusion™. The first one, Desert Heat, is not technically a sauce but a dry seasoning that by it's description sounds like an intriguing chipotle-based flavoring. The Pepper Infusion sauce's depiction is a little more vague but is probably draws a lot of it's taste from chiles, and might be quite a bit hotter than Desert Heat. I'll let you guys know what I think of each when I try them later this week.
Both are available for a limited time. If you wish to sample them yourselves, you can find the location of your nearest Buffalo Wild Wings here.
Review - Crazy Uncle Jester's Spontaneous Combustion Hot Sauce
Crazy Uncle Jester's Spontaneous Combustion™ XXXtra Hot Louisiana-Style Hot Sauce took home the Golden Chile Award at Chile Pepper Magazine's Fiery Food Challenge last September. Impressive credential indeed, and after I sampled many of the fine CUJ sauces and condiments at this year's Weekend of Fire, I was hankerin' to crack open (figuratively, of course) this bottle and sample the goods....
2009 Defcon Deathmatch National Wing-Eating Championship Video
Thanks to John "Defcon Creator" Dilley of the awesome Defcon Sauces for getting the video of the recent 2009 Deathmatch National Championship Wing-Eating Contest that took place during Jungle Jim's Weekend of Fire posted online! Here it is in all of it's scorching glory:
August 2009 Poll: What is Your Favorite Type of Pepper Sauce?
Overall, what is your favorite kind of chile pepper used in hot sauces?
Review - Sweet Baby Ray's Dipping Sauce - Creamy Buffalo Wing Flavor
The wonderful Sweet Baby Ray's, makers of one of the most delicious barbecue sauces in the industry, are apparently dunking their proverbial toes in other pools by introducing dipping sauces. The Creamy Buffalo Flavor Dipping Sauce and Sandwich Spread sounded tasty (and since they're highly proficient at BBQ sauces chances are they'd be pretty good at other condiments). Well, I've got bad news. This is a very disappointing sauce from Sweet Baby Ray's.
Grammar Pet Peeve Websites
While I'm just as human as everyone else and have had my fair share of typos and mistakes on my blog (including a recent misspelling of the word "reminiscing" that stayed up for almost a week), blatant idiocy and ignorance of the written English language drives me up a wall. I'm not part of some "Grammar Police" and I'm not a snobbish, elitist know-it-all, but everyone in the adult population of an English-speaking country should know the difference between "your" and "you're" and also "there" and "their" and "they're."
What about when folks slip in unnecessary apostrophes, where the word ending with an "s" is neither possessive nor a contraction? I get physically mad when I come across stuff like this...
Les Paul Dead at 94
One of the most influential and important musicians of all time, Les Paul, died of complications from pneumonia today at age 94. Guitarists all around the world are flying the flags in our hearts at half-mast.
Review - Jakk Hammer Hot Sauces
Attempting to lay rest to the notion that anything hot and spicy has to originate from the South, the Jakk Hammer Hot Sauce Company hails from Ontario, Canada and proudly produce two sauces - the original Jakk Hammer Spicy Cayenne Sauce (a Louisiana-style condiment) and the Jakk Hammer XXX Habanero Sauce. I wanted to find out if these can both melt igloos from the Great White North AND taste great on a variety of dishes, so I doubled up this time for another dual review.
St. Louis Restaurant Coupons
If you live anywhere around the St. Louis metro area and eat out at restaurants with any high degree of frequently, I'm sure you know about stltoday.com's offering of food-related coupons, correct? Well, if you don't, then their online Food and Dining Coupons section is worth a look. They'll usually have around four pages of 10 printable coupons on each page for local St. Louis area restaurants and other businesses that sell food, such as markets, coffee houses, and frozen custard stands. You may not always find a restaurant coupon for your particular favorite eatery, but occasionally you can discover a good deal that will save you a couple of bucks.
Review - Ole Ray's Apple/Cinnamon and Peach-A-Licious Barbeque Sauces
Here are a couple of items obtained from my recent excursion to the Weekend of Fire - Ole Ray's Apple/Cinnamon and Peach-A-Licious Barbeque Sauces. Both have been heavily-infused with fruit jelly and promise something different from commonplace BBQ sauces.
