Chileheads to Follow on Twitter

Scott Roberts October 22, 2009 at 12:11 pm food technology Digg this Article

Unless you're a Twitter veteran, you may or may not know that for the longest time the chilehead community has been slow to adopt the social networking service. There has been a large contingent of both the BBQ world and foodies in general populating Twitter, but they're not specifically hot sauce and chile pepper fanatics. Thankfully, that's beginning to change.

Below are what I consider to be the most interesting fiery foods people to follow on Twitter. They're manufacturers, bloggers, spicy foods fans, and chile experts. Some may post or tweet a lot (perhaps a bit too much in a few cases!) and some hardly post at all, but I think they're all worth a look.

Please keep in mind that these are only hot sauce/chile related folks listed. If you're interested in BBQ Twitterers, a good "starter" list can be found here.

@scottroberts - This is me.
@ringoffire1 - Mike Greening of Mike & Diane's Gourmet Kitchen
@cinchili- Cindy Reed Wilkins of Cin Chili Co.
@eatmoreheat - James Beck of EatMoreHeat.com
@michelenorthrup and @saucyqueen - Michele Northrup of Intensity Academy
@saucydude - Tom Was of Intensity Academy
@insanehotsauce - Chris of InsaneChicken.com
@jrcalvert - Jay Calvert of Jake Albert's Specialty Foods
@peppersdotcom - Chip Hearn of Peppers.com
@chilefoundry - ChileFoundry.co.uk
@hotsauceaddicts - http://www.HotSauceAddicts.com
@hippyseedco - Neil Smith of The Hippy Seed Co.
@peppermaster Greg Brooks
@firefoods - Woody of Fire Foods
@chilerockin - Randy Combs, co-host of HotSauceWeekly Podcast
@hotsauceweekly - HotSauceWeekly Podcast Official Twitter Account
@hotsaucedaily - Brian Meagher, webmaster of HotSauceDaily.com and co-host of HotSauceWeekly Podcast
@fieryfoods - Chile Expert Dave DeWitt
@bigdawgsalsa - Big Dawg Salsa
@captainthoms - Captain Thom's Hot Sauces
@texasfood - Jason of TexasFood.com
@redrumhotsauce - Ed Rome of Red Rum Hot Sauce
@englishchillico - English Chilli Co.
@allspicecafe - JD Cowles of All Spice Cafe Sauces
@captainjolokia - Captain Jolokia Web Design services
@chileheadtees - Chilehead Tees
@defconsauces - John Dilley of DEFCON Sauces
@bluesmokesalsa - Blue Smoke Salsa
@hotsaucenetwork - Rod Purnell of the Hot Sauce Network
@thechilligarden - The Chilli Garden
@jacstailgaters Tracy of Jac's Tailgaters
@dianessweetheat - Diane of Diane's Sweet Heat
@sizzlinsauces - Chef Bud of http://www.sizzlinsauces.com
@darthnaga - Darth Naga of http://www.ChileFoundry.co.uk
@kalaskuisine Kala's Kuisine
@blairlazar - Blair Lazar of ExtremeFoods
@spiceitup - Tammy Bowen of Captain Red Beard
@chukhell - Chuk Hell
@flamingmouth - http://www.FlamingMouth.com
@houstonfc - Dan Houston of Global Warming Salsa
@pepperfire - Tina Brooks of Peppermaster.com
@suckcreekwings - Suck Creek Wings Wing Sauce

Know any others? I'm bound to be missing a few, so if you see any omitted chileheads please add their Twitter usernames in the comments below.

Comments

dan houston
2009-10-22 11:26:30

Global Warming Salsa Company. Twitter name is @houstonfc. We won Scovies the last 2 years, 12 national awards in the last 18 months

Jay Calvert
2009-10-22 11:40:16

Thanks for the follow recommendation, Scott!

-Jay

Tina Brooks
2009-10-22 11:46:08

Hey! You forgot me! @pepperfire

I know @Peppermaster is the more important of the two, but he doesn't actively tweet so much. :)

Thanks for the Peppermaster mention, though! I look forward to adding some of those I didn't know were here.

Scot Roberts
2009-10-22 12:22:58

I knew there would be a couple of names I'd forget right off the bat! Dan and Tina, I've added your names above.

Tina Brooks
2009-10-22 12:35:24

You da man!

Double thanks for the shoutout!

Chilli-Alex
2009-10-22 12:53:40

Thanks for the mention Scott, much appreciated :)

Suck Creek Wings
2009-10-23 06:19:49

Great list! Thanks for putting that out there. Don't forget to add @suckcreekwings to your list too!

Brian Meagher
2009-10-23 19:04:16

Great Scott! (sorry)
You've done it again. A definitive list of chileheads to follow on Twitter.

Nice job.

Nick1987
2009-10-27 12:29:33

I'm not on twitter that much, but my username is @nickpopageorgio if anyone wants to follow me.

El Yucateco
2010-05-31 15:07:00

This was a very helpful list, thank you, Scott and to all the commenters! you can follow us at @el_yucateco. We are new to Twitter but really enjoying hearing from all of you hot sauce lovers.

Scott Roberts
2010-05-31 15:18:29

Thanks for stopping by the site, El Yucateco! It's always great to see the well-known sauce companies reach out directly to the fans via blogs and social networking.

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