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Review: Shakey Jake’s Hot Sauce

Shakey Jake’s Hot Sauce – Where flavor’s the key. So says the white label on the plastic bottle. To call it understated would be generous; the bottle’s rather plain looking, and this bottle probably woul...
 
 
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The Great Hot Sauce on Pizza Challenge

Pizza is one of my favorite mediums for consuming hot sauce. The sauce enhances the flavor of an already great food, and, the cheese on the pizza helps quench the fire, enabling larger quantities of hotter sauce to be eaten wit...
 

 
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Review: Capitol Punishment Serra-Tillo Green Chile Sauce

The anticipation of my latest tasting, Capitol Punishment’s Serra-Tillo Green Chile sauce, left me in a bit of a bind. I have really enjoyed Capitol Punishment’s [tag]hot sauces[/tag] so far. But I have a built in b...
 
 
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Review: Capitol Punishment’s Red Roasted Gar-Banero Hot Sauce

The Gar-Banero is a lively, red-colored sauce with a very smooth texture, a few seeds floating around, and an easy to pour consistency which sticks to food very well. The aroma is of garlic and vinegar. The label reads, “...
 

 
 
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Interview With the Three Hot Tamales

Today I had the opportunity to sit down for an interview with Lisa and Kristi of the Three Hot Tamales. In addition to being one of the hottest up and coming fiery foods producers (Winners of the first place 2006 scovie award i...
 
 
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Review: Capitol Punishment Smokey Sear-Acha Hot Sauce

After a very good experience with Must-Have-Mango, I was eagerly anticipating my next experience. I chose the Smokey Sear-Acha, with it’s dark red complexion and visible seeds in the sauce. Ingredients: Thai chiles pepper...
 

 
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Review: Capitol Punishment’s Must Have Mango

After an agonizingly long wait for the UPS store that held my shipment of Capitol Punishment [taghot sauces[/tag] hostage for far too long, I finally got a chance to try Chef Gordon’s creations, starting with Must-Have-Ma...
 
 
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Interview with Capitol Punishment Foods

I recently had the pleasure of talking food, wine and hot sauce with Chef Gordon Cameron, proprietor of Capitol Punishment Food. Well versed in the food business, but new to the hot sauce arena, Chef Gordon is already making a ...
 

 
 
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Review: Blairs Q Heat Blair’s Wasabi Green Tea

Blair’s Wasabi Green Tea offers a lot you won’t find in most [tag]hot sauces[/tag]. Like [tag]Wasabi[/tag] Rhizome. And Green Tea. That bit of truism aside, I was quite excited to give it a try. I love sushi, and wa...
 
 
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Review: CaJohn’s Fatalii Fire Hot Sauce

I’m just becoming acquainted with the fatalii pepper, aka the Yellow Devil’s Tongue. My only other exposure has been to fatalii powder, and I was looking forward to trying this blazing varietal in a sauce for the fi...