Cory Chili is a cat in Australia who your face on his sauce. The married father of two is taking his Face on Fire hot sauce to the business level and is offering custom labels with buyer’s faces on their own bottles.
Fiery Foods Show and Chile Pepper Magazine Team Up
Good news! Chile Pepper Magazine has signed on as sponsor for our National Fiery Foods and Barbecue Show. Here’s how Dave Dewitt explains it on his blog.
Carolina Reaper: Man Shatters World Eating Record
Wayne Algenio ate 119 grams of Carolina Reaper peppers at the New York Hot Sauce Expo. I don’t know how much money his colon owes him, but it must be a lot for Wayne to put that sort of savage beating on it. Did his lower GI borrow money from him for its mom’s operation or something?
Dave Appears on “A Taste of the Past”
A little while ago, Dave went back to one of those gigs briefly when he appeared on “A Taste of the Past.” It’s a radio show about food history, both of which he knows quite a bit about.
Hail to the Heat: Hot Sauce Enters the Election
Sort of. Hot Sauce Fanatics gives tabasco and habanero peppers the presidential treatment with a hot sauce labeled after some of 2016’s presidential candidates. Take a look…
Why Super Hot Peppers Get So Hot
Apparently, the reason superhots make so much more fire than jalapenos or habaneros is because they’re OCD. According to research at the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University, the main difference between the two groups of chiles is that superhots maximize their interior space. Much like how my roommate in college Tetris’ed everything in the apartment neatly into its own little storage compartment.
Happy National Hot Sauce Day!
In case you didn’t know, today is National Hot Sauce Day. Google is even in the act, with this nod to Wilbur Scoville (since it’s also, not coincidentally, his birthday). To commemorate the occasion, here’s a recipe for DIY Sriracha sauce.
