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World Record Setting Pepper Comes to Mad Dog World of Hot Sauces
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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.
Digital Conversion Made Easy PSA
Finally, a simple explanation of the upcoming Digital TV conversion! A must-watch!
A Whole Bunch of Hot Heads - The Pepper Lovers Club
Lorraine Eaton of The Virginian-Pilot writes about a local Chile Pepper Club and their annual chili cook-off:
"On Veteran's Day, I ate at the VFW hall in Norfolk with a happy crowd that ladles their dinner into cupcake tins and spends a whole lot of time jacked up on capsaicin, the stuff that makes hot peppers hot.
"The occasion: the local Pepper Lovers Club's annual chili cook-off...
How to Bake a Cake in a Mug Using A Microwave
Here's a guide showing you how to microwave a cake in a coffee mug. The overall prep and cooking process takes less than ten minutes and is perfect for kids.
Link: http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Make_Cake_in_a_Mug
Silence a Hard Drive Using Household Items
Justblair has posted an excellent guide on how to make a noisy hard drive quiet.
Link: http://www.justblair.co.uk/hdsilence.html
Review: Trader Joe's Chile Spiced Mango
While perusing the dried snack/nuts aisle at one of my local Trader Joe's, I noticed bags of Chile Spiced Mango slices on the shelf and thought I'd give them a whirl. Hey, I'm all for combining spice and heat with just about food item, including ones that are predominantly sweet. Some of these types of culinary partnerings are successful, while others are a complete flop. Trader Joe's Chile Spiced Mango slices fall somewhere in the middle.
Yet Another Thing Blamed on Global Warming: Lemming Populations in Norway
The alarmists are contending that during normal times, Norway's snowpack is light and fluffy, and ground warmth melts small spaces under the snow that the lemmings use to hunt for sedges, grasses and mosses without being exposed to predators. But in recent years, warmer winter temperatures have rendered the snow less fluffy and more likely to melt and refreeze into solid ice.
This may be true in contributing to killing off some of the Norweigan lemming population, but cherry-picking minor, highly-localized weather incidents and carting them out as irrefutable evidence of a worldwide climate catastrophe is fear-mongering at it's best (or worst, depending on your viewpoint). For every such case of local global warming, there can be several that show the contrary, such as record snowfall in Michigan, New England, and Southern Alaska, and record cold temps in Florida, just to name a few. And even globally there was record cold this past January.
Private Browsing Porn Mode Coming to Firefox 3.1
Firefox's Private Browsing, also kicknamed "Porn Mode" by internet users, is set to arrive in the version of the browser before the end of this year. With this, after a person turns on Private Browsing, no history, cache, download history, saved passwords, searches, cookies and more will be remembered until the mode is turned off. Webmonkey has more details here.
The Most Amazing Landing Ever
An airplane loses it's right wing and makes an incredible one-winged landing. Is this a real plane, a RC plane, or CGI? You be the judge:
What is The Scoville Scale?
The Scoville Scale is used to measure the pungency or hotness of a chile pepper. The chemical compound found in chile peppers (from the genus capsicum) that gives this piquant heat is called capsaicin (the molecular formula is (CH3)2CHCH=CH(CH2)4
CONHCH2C6H3-4-(OH)-3-(OCH3) or simply C18H27NO3), and stimulates chemoreceptor nerve endings, especially in the mucous membranes. The number of Scoville Heat Units (SHU) in a pepper or hot sauce indicates the amount of capsaicin present.
Wilbur Scoville and the Scoville Organoleptic Test
While working for the Parke Davis Pharmaceutical Company in 1912, American chemist Wilbur Scoville devised a test for rating the pungency of chile peppers. His method is known as the Scoville Organoleptic Test.
In the Scoville Organoleptic Test...
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians: A Cinematic Titanic Live Show Review
Former Mystery Science Theater 3000 writers and performers began the Cinematic Titanic video project late last year, picking up where they left off by poking fun of terrible B-movies as they watch them. They've been performing this show in person at select locations around the country. I caught Cinematic Titanic Live! on Saturday, November 1st at the Family Arena in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles, Missouri...
Blair Happenings: New Site Design, New 2008 Halloween Reserve, and More
From Blair Lazar:
Dear Chilipal,
With Halloween just days away, it also marks the opening of the all new extremefood.com. Here is a chance for you to have some fun and best of all its free. Here's How: Send us you and your ride. Or if you're the shy type, just send you. This is one of the many New Fun sections on the All new from the ground up Extremefood.com. Over the last 20 years, I have learned that I share much more in common with my Chilipals than Hot Sauce. Just to name a few, Great Food, Micro Beers, and Cars. And while we're on the topic of cars, I love um, All of um, and whatever your ride is, I would be honored to have you share it, Even if you walk to work you can just show us your sneakers. I don't care if it's your skateboard, tricycle, Chevy, maybe the highline collector hotrod you just bought at Barret-Jackson, or your rusty hunker. Share, See it, and send it quick, I will guarantee all "legal" lol pictures will be posted on the New extremefood.com and shared around the world to my Awesome Chilipals. Thank you for sharing in my passion for the World of Spice. My Best to you. Feel Alive!
Your Chilipal,
Blair
blair@extremefood.com
P.S. Tomorrow Night I will put my limited 89 Bottle production of 2008 Halloween available for Pre-Order. They are Special and the #89 represents my 20 years of having the pleasure of getting to know the most amazing group of people I could ever hoped to have met in the Chilihead Community that have become such a part of my life. Thank you.
Man Eats 15 Lb. Burger
CLEARFIELD, Pa. – It took Brad Sciullo 4 hours and 39 minutes to finish a marathon. A meat marathon, that is. The 5-foot-11, 180-pound western Pennsylvania chef is the first person to eat a monstrosity called the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser: a 15-pound burger with toppings and a bun that brought the total weight to 20.2 pounds.
The mountain of beef is the product of Denny's Beer Barrel Pub, about 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in Clearfield.
Sciullo, 21, of Uniontown, said he was surprised he finished the sandwich Monday. "About three hours into it, things got tough," he said.
When asked what possessed him to eat a burger that big, Sciullo said: "I wanted to see if I could."
The burger included a bun, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, onions, mild banana peppers and a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard and relish, pub owner Dennis Liegey said.
For completing the challenge in the under-five-hour time limit, Sciullo won $400, three T-shirts, a certificate "and a burger hangover, as I call it," Liegey said.
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PrintWhatYouLike Gives You Customizable and Printable Webpages
Ever try to print a page from a website and come up three or four pages of unusable garbage, such as the footer (which you don't care about) appearing by itself on page three and the navigation or banner ads covering most of page one? You can fix this with a nifty new web app called PrintWhatYouLike.
Type in the site URL you want to print on PrintWhatYouLike.com and the site loads up in the main frame of the page along with a special toolbar on the left. You can then select and remove unwanted text, keep the text you do want, remove images and background images, and even modify fonts, font sizes, or change the column width of the content (a la the Greasemonkey Firefox addon). The tweakage you can do is nearly limitless.
The few test pages I tried came out exactly as I wanted them, so next time you want to print out a news article or recipe, give this site a shot.
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5 Tips For Fall Grilling and Barbecue
Autumn is the one time of year the weather is nice in most parts of the country at the same time. In the warm southern and southwest regions, people who have been kept inside by the blazing summer temperatures start to enjoy the outdoors more. In the northern regions, the nights start to get crisp but the daytime temperatures are very pleasant. And pleasant weather means an ideal time for grilling and barbecue...
Herb and Spice Substitution Chart
Ever find yourself in the middle of a recipe and find yourself out of an herb or spice in your kitchen? Fear not, for here is a handy list of close substitutions of herbs and spices that should get you through cooking successfully. Keep in mind that these alternates don't taste exactly like the ingredients they're replacing; but with a bit of experimentation on the amounts you put in, you can still produce a great-tasting dish.
Herb and Spice Substitutions
Allspice - Cinnamon, cassia, dash of nutmeg or mace, or dash of cloves
Aniseed - Fennel seed or a few drops anise extract
Basil - Oregano or thyme
Cardamom - Ginger
Chervil - Tarragon or parsley
Chili Powder - Dash bottled hot pepper sauce plus a combination of oregano and cumin
Chive - Green onion, onion, or leek
Cilantro - Parsley
Cinnamon - Nutmeg or allspice (use only 1/4 of the amount)
Cloves - Allspice, cinnamon, or nutmeg
Cumin - Chili powder
Ginger - Allspice, cinnamon, mace, or nutmeg
Italian Seasoning - Blend of any of these: basil, oregano, rosemary, and ground red pepper
Mace - Allspice, cinnamon, ginger, or nutmeg
Marjoram - Basil, thyme, or savory
Mint - Basil, marjoram, or rosemary
Nutmeg - Cinnamon, ginger, or mace
Oregano - Thyme or basil
Parsley - Chervil or cilantro
Poultry Seasoning - Sage plus a blend of any of these: thyme, marjoram, savory, black pepper, and rosemary
Red Pepper - Dash bottled hot pepper sauce or black pepper
Rosemary - Thyme, tarragon, or savory
Saffron - Dash turmeric (for color)
Sage - Poultry seasoning, savory, marjoram, or rosemary
Savory - Thyme, marjoram, or sage
Tarragon - Chervil, dash fennel seed, or dash aniseed
Thyme - Basil, marjoram, oregano, or savory
Know of any other herb or spice flavor substitutes or alternatives? Any approximations of garlic, dill, mustard seed, or bay leaves? Let everyone know in the comments.
How To Make Fake Snot
Just in time for Halloween! Ever wanted to know how to create goopy, green slime? Here's a tutorial on how to make fake snot. MWAAHAHAHAA! (me attempting evil-sounding laugh)
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How I Got Kicked Out Of The Chile Heads
We just returned from the Fiery Foods Show, held again in Albuquerque, New Mexico and I had a lot of people asking for the hottest chile pepper we offered. I smiled, not at their extreme passion for scoville units, but because I couldn't supply them with anything hotter than our Coyote Trail Green Chile Sauce. Sure, the Green Chile Sauce has some heat, but nothing like what these guys were looking for. I thought back to our departure from a sound business plan-the time we were also in search of the heat...
Americans and Beer - Consumption in One Year
Americans definitely love their beer! Here are some interesting graphics that show just how much beer Americans drink in one year:
Bullet-Shaped Ice Cube Tray
Find your weapons of thirst destruction right here with the Bullet Ice Cube Tray. Shaped like actual bullets from an AK-47 rifle, these will ensure you'll have a killer drink every time (okay, enough with the bad jokes). You can buy them online right here for £7.99 (approximately $15.15 US)
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