Buddha Bill’s Tequila Lime Hot Sauce is a recent discovery and a favorite of mine. That’s why I was surprised and happy as hell to see Buddha Bill’s Peach Habanero Hot Sauce. I really love shaken’ those peaches, especially with my hot sauces, so I opened this one with a big grin on my face, ready to enjoy the fruit and heat combination. I didn’t expect the heat to be too intense, of course, since most of the peach and pepper combos I’ve had the pleasure of ingesting are usually quite mild. While Buddha Bill’s Peach Habanero Hot Sauce is by no means one of those sauces that will make you blow fire from the rear exit, it is quite a bit warmer than most other peach and pepper combinations I’ve had the pleasure of sampling. Peaches, orange habanero peppers, apple cider vinegar, orange juice, and brown sugar are the ingredients that come together in this beautifully crafted peach-colored sauce. Pour some on a spoon and take a taste to get the full effect before combining it with anything else. Continue Reading

Two of my favorite combinations are sweet and heat.Honey is one of the finest ingredients you can combine with peppers to give you this exquisite combination. Short of walking into a hive full of bees, Bee Sting Honey ‘n’ Habanero Hot Sauce is one of the best ways to get the taste of honey with the bite of a habanero pepper. My first impulse when I twist the cap off this stuff is to pour it on a spoon and take it straight. In fact, this sauce is excellent (not kidding here) for someone who has a cold. Forget the cough syrup. Bee Sting Honey ‘n’ Habanero soothes the throat and helps open the sinus cavities and it tastes a lot better than cough syrup. I wouldn’t lie to you. This isn’t something I could make up. There’s another way I use this sauce. I started by accident. It makes a great pancake syrup. The honey provides the sweetness you expect from a pancake syrup and the habaneros give your cakes a nice little kick. Continue Reading

For all of you die hard chicken wings fans, we know you like your wings Hot!  Some of you like them super hot so we came up with a recipe that will satisfy the burning desire for some delicious chicken wings with an easy to create Super Hot Wing Sauce Recipe

This recipe is used strictly for making hot and spicy chicken wings and trust us…it is hot!

Recipe:

12 oz. bottle red hot sauce
1/2 cup to 3/4 cup butter (not margarine)
2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium onion, minced or finely chopped
1 tablespoon mustard powder
2 Jalapeno peppers (seeds … Continue Reading

Some people have questioned whether hot sauce or the hot peppers can be a danger to you. Peppers as a whole are not dangerous to you. They have plenty of vitamins and health benefits.  What can get to you is the Capsaicin. Capsaicin is potent oil, but there is no medical evidence that it is unhealthy for your body by consuming it in a sauce or in your food.

The effect you can get from this oil that is harmful to you is the burning from the oil found in very hot peppers like Habaneros, Ghost Peppers … Continue Reading

Salads and lettuce can be a bland, tasteless vegetable without the addition of some flavoring and spice to your dish.  Some lettuces do have a bit of a bite to them like Arugula, but for the most part, it is up to the creator of the salad to bring in the flavor.  For those that love some heat, here is a great recipe to kick up your next salad.

Habanero Pepper Salad Dressing Recipe

You do need gloves on when handling the habanero pepper and refrain from touching your eyes or face.

To make the Habanero Pepper Salad Dressing, you will need 2 … Continue Reading

Wings and Hot Sauce go hand in hand and they both are an all time favorite at Insane Chicken and for most of our customers and readers too! Since we love sauces we make sure to carry a huge selection of ones we know you will love and come back for time and time again. Wing Time Hot Sauce is a specialty sauce we know you will love.

They make 5 different ones:

* Wing Time Mild Sauce ~ A Great Mellow Sauce with Parmesan Cheese- For those who want the full-bodied taste without the traditional heat. We added … Continue Reading

Making a hot sauce is a unique as the person creating it. There are so many different ingredients that you can use to mix your peppers with to get a tangy, sweet, spicy pepper hot sauce.  Using peaches has become a popular additive into many hot sauces and often people look for a way to blend in their peaches when making a recipe.

Here is an easy hot sauce recipe that you can use and tweak as you like.

Peach Hot Sauce Recipe

10 large orange Habanero Peppers (washed, cored and seeds removed)
5 large super ripe fresh Peaches (washed and pitted)
1/2 large white … Continue Reading

With fresh peppers abounding right now it’s a great time to look at a few ideas for enjoying peppers for a delicious lunch or light dinner.  Here are some great pepper sandwich ideas that you will enjoy over and over again!  They are great for a quick and easy preparation and the kids will enjoy them too!

Mozzarella Cheesy Pepper Sandwich

1 slice of Mozzarella cheese
1 roasted red or green bell pepper, chopped
1-2 slices of tomato
butter and bread

This is a twist on the classic grilled cheese sandwich! Butter one side of each slice of bread and place one slice in a preheated … Continue Reading

Hot pepper sauce is a basic cooking necessity that pepper lovers want to keep in their kitchen at all times.  Having a favorite homemade hot pepper sauce that you can call your own and be able to adjust the flavors is a great thing to have too.  Here is a very simple recipe that you can use to flavor your sauces, wings, or other delicious foods.

Homemade Hot Pepper Sauce
3 cups chopped Habanero Peppers
2 cups white vinegar
2 tablespoons pickling salt

You will need a large blender container with lid or a food processor to mix up this recipe. You will want to … Continue Reading

There are thousands and thousands of hot pepper sauce fans around the world and many of these hot pepper sauce fans will sample hundreds of sauces and then write reviews on what they thought about the sauce. You will find these hot sauce reviews published in newspapers, foodie and/or cooking magazines and on various web sites and right here on our blog.

It is important that when you are reading various hot pepper sauce reviews to remember that every taste tester has different taste buds and likes and dislikes. So just because one person likes such and such brand of … Continue Reading

Hot pepper sauce is a staple item in many households and cultures.  There are literally thousands of different brands out there for you to try but it’s hard to find the perfect one for you and your family. We all want our own signature flavor.  Heck, you may be an aspiring Hot Sauce chef!

So, you can easily make your own homemade hot pepper sauce by following the below recipe. This is a great recipe for those of you with backyard gardens and who grow your own hot peppers.

6 Habanero peppers, chopped
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 clove of garlic, minced
1 (6 … Continue Reading

With the abundance from the gardens right now, many gardeners and folks stocking up at the farmers markets are making delicious salsas as well as canning and freezing their produce right now. But what about making homemade hot pepper sauce? Think it is too difficult? Is it all but forgotten in the world of salsas and BBQ sauces?

Well thankfully the answer to that is no. A simple hot pepper sauce is an easy recipe to follow and it will yield you quite a bit of sauce that you can use for dipping, fiery wings or whatever … Continue Reading

Relatively new on the pepper trail, in the last 20 years or so,  is the Red Savina pepper.  It was cultivated off the habanero chili pepper and is known to be an extremely hot pepper registering up to approximately 570,000 on the Scoville scale in some tests although some tests have it coming in at the mid 200,000’s and up.  It was the reigning champ for many years as the hottest pepper, but has been knocked off the list in the past few years by other super-hot peppers like the Naga Jolokia.

The Red Savina pepper is the hottest of the … Continue Reading

Many cooks have a favorite fresh pepper soups that they enjoy when the harvest of peppers starts coming in.  There are abundant recipes for roasted or regular pepper soups.  Here are some prep tips for you to get your favorite peppers ready for soup creation.

Preparation for Roasted Pepper Soups:

Roasted Peppers are great to use in fall and early winter soups and stews and we recommend that you combine sweet peppers along with hot peppers to get the right pepper flavor. Typical ratio is approximately 3/4 sweet and 1/4 hot peppers.

You will want to use ripe peppers that have been picked … Continue Reading

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1-1/2 cups light beer
• 1 can (6-ounce) tomato paste
• 1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
• 1/4 cup vinegar
• 1 to 2 tablespoons bottled habanero hot pepper sauce
• 1 tablespoon chopped canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce
• Salt to taste

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Ingredients:

• 2 Tbls peanut oil
• 8 Ripe mangoes peeled and cut into large dice
• 1/2 cup diced white onion
• 1/2 cup diced carrot
• 2 Fresh habanero Chiles Seeded and cut into quarters
• 1/2 cup Champaign vinegar
• 1/2 cup ketchup
• 1/4 cup light brown sugar or honey
• salt to taste.

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Dave’s Insanity Sauces Scoville Ratings
A growing interest in extreme hot sauces in particular can be dated roughly from the institution of the annual Fiery Foods and Barbecue Show in 1989. The original Dave’s Insanity Sauce premiered around 1993 and was one of the first sauces to be made directly from capsaicin extract, allowing it to be hotter than the hottest habanero-pepper sauces of the day. It was the only hot sauce ever banned from the National Fiery Foods Show for being too hot. It has been rated at 180,000 Scoville … Continue Reading

People are always requesting Blair’s Hot Sauce Scoville Ratings.

Scoville Rating for Blair’s Hot Sauces Continue Reading

Peppers are a very versatile fruit.  They are wonderful in so many different ways.  Including them as your veggie side dish is really easy when you grill them in foil packets alongside of your meats.  This is a great method so you can enjoy your veggies grilled but not char them.

One of the easiest ways to grill peppers on a backyard barbecue grill is to make some homemade grill pouches out of aluminum foil and just place them directly onto your grill’s rack. You will need a piece of aluminum foil that measures about 12″ square and you will want … Continue Reading

Many of us have certain cravings during the day.  Some may be sweet; some may be salty.  Many of our hot sauce lovers have spicy cravings.  Well, if you are looking for a spicy and salty snack to curb your snack cravings, here is a really easy to prepare recipe for all of you pepper lovers out there.  I think you will enjoy it!

Spicy and Salty Hot Pepper Pretzels

• 6-7 ounce bag of mini or waffle shaped salted pretzels
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 3 teaspoons salt-free soy sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon dried cayenne pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

Melt the butter in your … Continue Reading

Ingredients:

• 1 avocado – peeled, pitted and diced
• 1 lime, juiced
• 1 mango – peeled, seeded and diced
• 1 small red onion, chopped
• 1 habanero pepper, seeded and chopped
• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
• salt to taste

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Wicked Cactus hand-crafts its sauces in small batches to ensure quality, freshness, and heat. They do not disappoint. Case in point: Head Hunter’s Paradise Hot Sauce, a fine concoction of pineapple, apple cider vinegar, smoked habanero, oranges, red bell pepper, salt, and spices.

With all that fruit, I doubted whether the habaneros would come through in force, and especially the unique smoked flavor. But as I said, it did not disappoint. Wonderfully thick and chunky, Head Hunter’s Paradise is both sweet and savory, hot and fruity, and decidedly smoky. Salsa-like in consistency, it had more the feel of a very spicy barbecue sauce than a table condiment. But frankly, it could serve just as well in either capacity. Continue Reading

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups rotelle pasta
• 4 tablespoons butter, divided
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 3 cups whole milk
• 1 teaspoon dry mustard
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground white pepper
• 3 teaspoons hot sauce
• 1 cup shredded pepperjack cheese
• 1 1/2 cups shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
• 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 1/3 cup dry bread crumbs
• 2 teaspoons chili powder

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Make a splash at your next party with fabulous Chili Pepper Martini’s. You can make your own homemade Chili Pepper Martini’s at home with very little effort and it is the perfect drink to serve at your next chili pepper themed party.  It will take a bit of pre work before the event, but it is super easy. Here is how.

1 Bottle of Vodka
2 Fresh Small Chili Peppers (for the infusion)
Fresh small chili peppers (for garnishing your glass)
Cocktail Shaker
Martini Glasses
Crushed Ice

Wash and dry your two chili peppers and then use a small paring knife to cut off the stems. Slice … Continue Reading

Save some time in the kitchen and make your own chili infused olive oil.  This is great to use in soups, stews and other foods that you are preparing. It would also add a wonderful flavor to meats that need a bit of oil coating before barbecuing.   It is super simple and the taste is amazing.

There are two different methods that you can try out.  The first one uses roasted chilis of any kind.  Wash and dry two chili peppers and then cut off the stem and remove the seeds and membranes. Brush the entire chili pepper with some olive … Continue Reading