Here’s the first of what will probably be many apps built around hot sauce. According to the website, Jim’s Burning Ring of Fire iPhone App “empowers your inner pyro and manages your flaming taste-buds with hot sauce reviews and ratings for an exhaustive listing of available hot sauces and hot sauce makers…. AND includes a handy reference Scoville Heat Unit …
Lovin’ the Looftlighter
In every issue of Burn! Magazine, we’ll tell you about great new products. Contributing Editor Mark Masker had way too much fun testing out the Looftlighter. His review is below. Read more of Mark’s ravings in the April issue by clicking here. “It’s not as clumsy or random as a blaster. It’s an elegant weapon, from a more civilized age.” …
Those Mayans Are Really Worth Their Salt
Rick Grice of Maya Natural Sea Salt is working with local Guatemalans to build a sustainable modern commercial salt industry. His company—based in Centennial, CO—is the first to import sea salt from Guatemala to the U.S. The video shows some of this year’s salt harvest being collected into “volcanoes” from the evaporation ponds (called “patios”), which will be processed …
Sex, Lies, & Capsicum: Debunking Pepper Gardening Myths
The weather is warming, and chile pepper gardeners all over are plotting their plantings for the season. In the April issue of Burn! Magazine, we introduced Cap Farmer, a former marijuana grower who has switched to chiles to prevent his house and property from being seized by the Feds. This is the first installment of his chile gardening wisdom. We …
Need Weird Mexican Food Products? MexGrocer to the Rescue!
Need some achiote to sprinkle on the nopalitos in your comal? Look no further than MexGrocer.com. When you run across a tasty new recipe with foreign-sounding Latin ingredients, you can cook it the way it was meant to be, thanks to MexGrocer’s huge inventory of really neat products. Their tagline reads “Bringing Hard-to-find Authentic Mexican Products to Your Door.” And …
