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Clean Out Fridge Means Goodbye Old Friends

It’s hard to throw out old sauces
We cleaned out the fridge to make room for any new sauces that we’d be opening soon, and found bottles of stuff that was over 6 years old. There was even a bottle of smoked, dried tomatoes in olive oil that was at least 7 years old.
It’s sad to [...]

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BBQ Grills and Equipment Used at HotSauceDaily.com

Love the Weber Products
Currently, I’m only using Weber products and I’m strictly a charcoal guy for now.
The Kettle Grills
My main grill is the Weber 22.5″ One Touch Gold Kettle grill. That’s the “Blue Devil” pictured above.
It’s a classic, and the Gold version includes the no rust aluminum removable ash catcher. Very handy.
(Skip the One Touch [...]

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Hot Sauce & Chile Pepper Aprons

Guys & Gals, Valentine’s Day is coming and these HOT Aprons make great gifts!
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Irene Shurson of All Occasion Aprons (http://alloccasionaprons.com) makes aprons adorned with Hot Sauce Bottles, Chile Peppers, or Flames. She also has aprons with a Cow motif, a Cajun motif and Sunflowers, among many others.
Made from a cotton print [...]

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Recipe For Homemade Pita Chips From Pita Bread

These Homemade Pita Chips are so easy to make
Great for spicy chile dips, veggie dips, or for just taste-testing hot sauces, these are our go to chips when we just want a plain dipping chip for sauces etc.
Simply take a round of Pita bread and slice it into 6ths or 8ths (depending on the size [...]

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Scovie Awards 2009 Winners Announced

The Scovie Awards Winners for 2009 were announced recently by Fiery-Foods.com
Setting the Standard for Spicy Food & BBQ, the annual Scovie Awards Competition recognizes top fiery foods and BBQ products from around the globe. (fiery-foods.com)
November 8th, 2008: The 2009 Scovie Awards winners. I know I’m a week late on this, but I really wanted to congratulate [...]

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Food Podcasts That Get Me Through the Day

Here’s a list of Food Podcasts I listen to daily/weekly. I’m lucky to be able to listen to many hours of podcasts on my job, so here’s a list of the food related podcasts I enjoy. I also listen to tech podcasts and a few comedy podcasts. I’ll list them in a later post.  If [...]

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Reading About Food in the Wednesday Newspapers

It’s Wednesday, my favorite day to read about food in the newspapers. The Baltimore Sun Taste Section comes out today, as well as the NY Times Dining Out section.

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Heat Taco Shells That Don’t Collapse

Arrange your taco shells like this, so they don’t collapse while heating.

Seems kinda trivial or silly, but this really works! By interlocking 4 shells, like you would fold a cardboard box, they each hold the next one open – the shells don’t collapse. This makes them much easier to fill with all your goodies.
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OXO Good Grips Angled Measuring Cups

These angled measuring cups are great! You can clearly see what you are measuring by simply looking down at the angled measurement marks, no need to lift the cup up into the air. Much more accurate this way.

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