I haven't tried all of the hot sauces that Melinda's produces but I love the ones that I have tried.  The reason that I like Melinda's so much is these sauces are fantastic, have a high degree of heat and are available for a few bucks in your local supermarket.  Well, they're available in MY local supermarket anyway.

Every once in awhile I'm guilty of an impulse buy and more often than not, the product is a spicy one.  This time I was in the supermarket and I passed a shelf of hotsauce.  There were a few sauces I hadn't yet tried so I grabbed a bottle of Walkerswood Hot Jamaican Scotch Bonnet Pepper Sauce.  It's a relatively inexpensive bottle of hot sauce so I figured I'd give it a spin.

Chile and hot sauce eating videos have become extremely popular over the past few years.  Our friend, Scott Roberts, decided to take on Blair's Ultra Death Hot Sauce on video a few months ago so I figured I'd share it with you fine folks.  While some people resort to eating chile peppers, hot sauce or other spicy foods to put themselves into a world of hurt ala "Jackass" for entertainment purposes, Scott's video is much more informative.  This video says so much more than a written article ever could and Scott has an interesting and entertaining style.

Cumming Georgia isn't the first place that you'd expect to find really great German food with any semblance of authenticity but Gasthaus Restaurant isn't what you'd expect.  While most other restaurants in Cumming are grilling steaks seasoned with mixes that were sent to them straight from "corporate", Chef Reinhold Weger at Gasthaus is carefully preparing authentic German meals from scratch and is making his guests extremely happy in doing so.  Gasthaus Restaurant was rated the #22 German Restaurant in the country by GermanDeli.com but I'm giving it five stars. Er...chiles.  Whatever.

The Scoville scale has been the standard measure of "heat" in chile peppers since it was invented by Wilbur Scoville in 1912.  Over the years the Scoville scale has become less of a mystery given the growing popularity of spicy food and the interest in the health benefits of chile peppers.  Given the nature of ChileBomb I felt that it was fitting for me to follow suit and include an explanation of the Scoville scale.  After all this very site is dedicated to the almighty capsicum.

I had the pleasure of tasting Dave's Gourmet Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce today.  This hot sauce is made with the famed and acclaimed Bhut Jolokia pepper.  A pin sized drop of this hot sauce on the tine of a fork lit me up so there was only one thing I could do - I needed to put a few more drops on my tacos.  Was I possessed?  Did it haunt my tacos ?  I'm not entirely sure but it made me think that I might need to use a ten star rating system for the heat in these reviews.

The sensor soap pump dispenses soap touch-free to help avoid cross-contamination.  Simply place your hand under the sensor to dispense soap automatically.  An optional LED light timer blinks for 20 seconds to indicate how long to lather for germ-free hands. Four volume settings allow the pump to dispense preset amounts of soap or lotion. Operates on 4 AA batteries (not included).

Sometimes people don't realize that you are more likely to cut yourself with a dull knife than with a sharp one.  If you need to use a sawing motion to get through a tomato skin; if a vein is popping out in your head while you're trimming chicken; if you need to start with a shoulder level swing to make it all the way through a carrot then it's time to sharpen your knives.

When you're struggling you have less control over the knife, you're more likely to slip, cut yourself and mangle your tomato.  When your knife slides easily through the food that you're preparing you have a much lower risk of cutting yourself.  If your knife is sharp enough then the weight of the knife with slight pressure should slice right through the that pesky tomato skin.