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All about spicy food of all kinds - hot sauces, hot chile peppers, snacks, spicy dishes, hot wings, and more - and even bland food!
Tabasco Sauce Facts
Ever want to know more about the world's most popular hot sauce? Joey Green of the Wacky Uses website has compiled a nice little list of Tabasco Sauce facts and information... (Read More)
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Recipe - Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeño Poppers
For a delicious appetizer or snack, it's hard to beat the wide appeal of bacon-wrapped jalapeno poppers. It's got kick from the jalapenos, crispiness from bacon, and a sweet, creamy, melty fusion of cheddar and cream cheese to balance out the taste...
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Recipe Recap - Spicy Food
In case you've missed the spicy food recipes I've posted thus far on this food blog, below is a rundown. Each one is a must-try for chileheads or anyone who likes their meals with a little kick. I also plan on making new recipe additions as they get posted to the site in the future.
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Create Perfectly Round Ice
Serious on the rocks drinkers prefer ice spheres due to their reduced surface area; the ice melts slower, meaning a less watered-down beverage. A Japanese company called Taisin [Google Translation page] has created a contraption that will create perfectly round balls of ice.
You place a chuck of ice inside Taisin's Ice Mold, and as the ice melts the press will close around it creating it's spherical shape. Extract the ice, and voila! I perfect, seamless ball. The Ice Mold can create 30 to 40 ice balls per minute.
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What's the Difference Between Herbs and Spices?
Have you ever stopped to wonder what was the difference between herbs and spices? The Supreme Spice Blog provides a definative answer:
"A simple answer to this question would be that the leaf of a plant which is used in cooking is referred to as a Herb and any other part of the plant that is used to flavor food is termed as a Spice. For example - Cloves (bud), ginger & turmeric (roots), fennel, cumin, coriander (seeds), cinnamon (bark), peppercorns (berries) [would all be conidered spices].
Herbs are used fresh and spices are generally in dried form."
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Dave's Gourmet Adjustable Heat Hot Sauce
One of the coolest hot sauces to debut in the past few years has got to be Dave's Gourmet Adjustable Heat hot sauce. Adjustable Heat is bottled in a 7.1 oz container that allows you to change the spiciness of the sauce by turning the cap. The pump spray cap - similar to the homemade chili sauce mister I mentioned a few weeks back - mixes the ingredients from the two compartments (one containing the flavored portion and the other housing the heat mixture) of the bottle in different proportions. You can have a sauce that is mildly spicy to one that has a scorching heat...
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Recipe - Buffalo Chicken Dip
If you've never had buffalo chicken dip and crackers, then you don't know what you've been missing. This stuff is frickin' additive and is guaranteed to be the hit of any party or get-together. Just imagine creamy, spreadable buffalo wings in bitesize form without the mess.(Read More)
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How To Build A Chile Mister
Instructables has a short piece on how to build a spice mister - which is basically a small spray pump bottle filled with hot sauce. Less potent than a typical pepper spray that you would use for self defense or crowd control, this ingenious little bottle is for quickly applying hot chile pepper sauce or even capsaicin extract to a large area when cooking or eating.
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Doctors Testing Hot Sauce to Help Knee Pain
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Hot sauce spices up your food and now Capsaicin, the thing that gives chili peppers their punch, is knocking out knee pain.
At age 71, Ron Johnson said his knee is in better shape than it was in his fifties. "It was constant pain in both knees," he said. The spicy new treatment is part of a study using an ultra purified form of Capsaicin... |
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Recipe: Boneless Buffalo Wings
When I wrote the Love Hot Wings and Buffalo Wings? Here Are 15 Different Recipes You've Gotta Try article a few months back, I didn't even realize at the time that I had left out a mention of boneless buffalo wings. Yikes! Since I'm a diehard devotee of Buffalo Wild Wings and the awesome boneless wings they serve, a recipe on how to make these tasty little guys is long overdue.
Why boneless? Everyone knows there's nothing like sucking the meat off a succulent, perfectly-cooked, bone-in chicken wing. Going boneless, though, has it's advantages. For one, you get considerably more meat per bite. Second, although they are smothered in sauce, there's no mess on your fingers as you eat these babies with a fork.
What makes boneless buffalo wings more than just glorified chicken breast nuggets is a good breading. Here's a recipe that will give you a zesty breading that, when combined with a spicy sauce, will give you a taste that is a cross between Buffalo Wild Wings and Chili's. (Read More)
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Recipe: Ott's Buffalo Bean Soup
If you know me well then you know I ain't a soup fan. While I like chunky chilis, stews, and ham and beans, I believe typical, thin, brothy soups lack the adequate substance to be any part of a meal. Well, here's a recipe for a buffalo bean soup that's anything but run-of-the-mill and watery. Using Ott's Wing Sauce, this is a thick, hearty delight that would please the palette of both chileheads and soup lovers... (Read More)Permalink
Blair’s Pure Death Hot Sauce Reviewed by Hot Sauce Blog
The new Pure Death Hot Sauce from Blair's has been reviewed by Hot Sauce Blog...(Read More)
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The Best New Way to Make Eggs - The Ziploc Omelet
I've come across the coolest new method for cooking am omelet - place it in a Ziploc bag and boil it. The gist of it is, crack two eggs in a quart-size Ziploc bag (a sandwich bag would be too small, a gallon size too large), add ingredients such as cheese, peppers, onions, or ham, shake the bag up, seal it, and place it in boiling water for 13 minutes. What comes out is a steaming-hot, perfectly-cooked, rolled up omelet that you can top with hot sauce and extra cheese (if you prefer).
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Blair and Zakk WyldeTeam Up For "Berserker Brand" Hot Sauces
Hot off the press from Blair Lazar:
"Dear ChiliPal,
So many things have been going on in Death Sauce Land over the last few months. So much in fact that I could not explain everything in just one e-Mail. Over the next couple of weeks I will be sending out several additional messages covering many exciting topics.
Today I want to announce that Blair's and Zakk Wylde have partnered in a unique line of "Berserker Brand" Hot Sauces...
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Review: Ott's Original Wing Sauce
How many hot sauces have you tried that have become an instant staple in your house, where you absolutely had to have a bottle on hand at all times and became as commonplace in your kitchen as ketchup and white bread? My "must-have" in the hot sauce world is Ott's Wing Sauce...
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