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Do they make it, or do they crash and burn? Here is a video of classical orchestra play after eating the world’s hottest chile peppers.

It’s the Danish National Chamber Orchestra playing “Tango Jalousie” while eating the some very pungent peppers. At first, I wondered if they were indeed using Smokin’ Ed’s Carolina Reaper which as of this writing is the current world’s hottest pepper. But then I learned that the orchestra was conducted by Chili Klaus, who is a Danish chile pepper enthusiast, so my confidence rose a little. Even if the orchestra didn’t use Carolina Reapers, and instead used the slightly more-available Trinidad Scorpion chile peppers (the previous world’s hottest), the effects would have been about the same.

Enjoy!

White Castle invites its St. Louis Military and Veterans to join us for a free meal, and a unique opportunity to Spice Up their lunch. Special guest, Scott Roberts of ScottRobertsWeb.com, will be present with a handpicked selection of distinctive sauces.

St. Louis, MO: From 12pm – 3pm, November 8th, 2014, the O’Fallon, Missouri White Castle (2212 State Highway K, O’Fallon, MO) will be hosting a very special Veterans Appreciation Day Event to honor St. Louis’ military and veterans with a free meal. As a humble gesture of appreciation, White Castle will be presenting $10 gift cards* to the men and women who have protected our freedom through their military service. All inactive and active duty members of our military are invited to accept our thanks for their invaluable service to our country.

Esteemed food blogger, Scott Roberts of ScottRobertsWeb.com, will be on site with his favorite sauce selections, daring attending current military, veterans and fellow St. Louis Cravers to “Spice It Up” and dress their favorite chicks and sliders with the ultimate selection of BBQ and hot sauces.

Avery Island, Louisiana (October 21, 2014) – This week, TABASCO and their iconic sauce represent Louisiana on AOL’s This Built America editorial series. You may know where the legendary TABASCO sauce is made, but do you know how it’s made?

With three simple ingredients – and a lot of patience – TABASCO’s owners, the McIlhenny family…

Whew! I’ve been making numerous fixes, updates and changes to the world’s largest Scoville Scale Chart Database for Hot Sauces and Chile Peppers. This is the first time I’ve really updated this page since I updated the blog template last year, so it’s a long overdue fix!

Lots of the tweaks and revisions are “behind the scenes” in the chart code as it grabs info from the database, as well as stylistic modifications. I have added several new chile peppers, numerous photos of peppers and sauces that were absent, plus a truckload of descriptions.  I’m in the home stretch of finishing this up, but if you still see something that is a glaring omission or see something that is broken, contact me and let me know!

See the Scoville Scale Chart now!

I’d also like to give a big shout-out to Michael Hultquist of Chili Pepper Madness and Jim Duffy of Refining Fire Chiles for providing both images and descriptions of many of the chile peppers listed.

I’ve recently added a handful of firm dates of hot sauce shows, spicy food festivals, and other chile pepper-related events around the United States occurring in 2015 on my Hot Sauce/Chilehead Events and Festivals Calendar page.

Several years ago, as a service to the chilehead nation, I started listing most of the major national and regional fiery foods trade shows, conventions, hot sauce events and chile pepper festivals in North America.

If you have any confirmed dates for any large-scale events that aren’t listed on the Calendar page, please contact me with all the pertinent details: website, dates, times, and anything else you can scrounge up about it, and I’ll add it as soon as I can.  Thanks!

Although mainstream websites have expanded their hot sauce coverage by having loads of “best of” lists, we chileheads can sometimes be exasperated by the exclusion of some of highly flavorful artisan sauce makers in their articles. It’s understandable that the average joe has not heard of Heartbreaking Dawns, CaJohn’s, Ring of Fire, or Race City Sauce Works, just to name a few, as the target audience for whom they write needs to recognize most, if not all, their brands.

So to take a little spin of an approach on this, I’m am asking you, the knowledgeable sauce fanatics, to pick what you think is the best of the nationally-known, mass-produced, household-name pepper sauces that are found in most grocery store shelves in America?

What can you say about Food Network host and chef Guy Fieri that already hasn’t been written a thousand times? The spiked, peroxide-dyed cooking personality is an endearing figure with a larger-than-life, boisterous “dude” quality to some, and an annoying tool to others. Love him or loathe him (or maybe just tolerate him to watch the mouth-watering pig-out food on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives), he’s never at a loss for words when describing the culinary marvels of others or even those that he himself has concocted.

For those of you craving these words of wisdom from Guy, you’re in luck! I’ve built this Guy Fiery Random Quote Generator for your enjoyment! Now you can pilot your own bus on your way to Flavortown with these quippy catchphrases whenever the needs calls for it…

I only just recently caught the Christian marriage-themed movie Fireproof, so I was unaware of this particular scene until now. I know us chileheads and hot sauce fanatics like to see how the general populace views us and our fiery activities, so I thought this hot sauce drinking game scene would be of interest to many of you.

Watch the scene in the video below.