Category Archives: Fiery World
A Plea to Help Steve and Cathy Zielinski
I’m honored to join Scott on a special edition of the Firecast podcast to highlight this wonderful couple’s current struggle! Battling cancer is bad enough without worrying about paying your bills!! Take a listen and follow your heart because sometimes our Fiery World burns! Be blessed, folks!
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Episode #74 – Help Cathy and Steve Zielinski Fight Cancer
In this short but special episode, Scott and Ken urge everyone to help out our friends Steve and Cathy Kielinski of Crazy Steve’s Pickles and Salsas as Cathy has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
How you can help:
- Make a small monetary donation via Cathy and Steve’s Fundly page.
- Order some of Steve’s new flavored popcorn (as mentioned in the podcast) or any other product on their shopping cart page.
If you’re a chilehead, a barbecuer, or just a general foodie, please consider helping out these fine folks. Let’s show Steve and Cathy that we are among the best and most supportive communities anywhere and that we take care of our own. Thank you!
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Sriracha Time!!! Check out the latest episode of Ken’s Fiery World on the Weekly Firecast!!
Scott and I have a great discussion of the whole Sriracha craze and do an impromptu review of Fix Hot Sauce, a new, organic Sriracha sauce out of the Seattle area! And stick around for all the other spicy goodness in this week’s Weekly Firecast with Scott Roberts!!! Why should you? Because……(wait for it!..)….. It’s a Fiery World!!!!!
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Episode #73 – Barbecue Chat with DivaQ Danielle Dimovski of BBQ Crawl
One of the First Ladies of the BBQ competition world, Danielle Dimovski, AKA DivaQ, joins Scott via Skype and talks about her smoker and grill preferences, outdoor cooking pet peeves and favorite flavor combos, and also discusses her TV career as host on the Travel Channel’s BBQ Crawl and contestant and barbecue judge on Destination America’s BBQ Pitmasters.
Ken Alexander joins Scott in his Fiery World segment to engage in a lengthy conversation on the Sriracha hot sauce craze. Scott reviews the Sam and Oliver Sauce Company’s Cinder Habanero Hot Sauce.
Links mentioned in the episode:
- DivaQ Official Website
- DivaQ Facebook Page
- DivaQ Twitter Page
- DivaQ on YouTube
- Take Scott’s Fiery Foods & BBQ Survey
- Scott’s Interview with David Tran, Own of Huy Fong Foods Sriracha Sauce
The Firecast is Sponsored in Part By:
- Sucklebusters – Texas BBQ Rubs, BBQ Sauces & Texas GunPowder! SuckleBusters is preferred by competition BBQ Cooks, and has won numerous awards including back-to-back 1st Place sauce wins at the American Royal – the World series of BBQ competitions.
- Dr. BBQ’s Low & Slow BBQ at Home Online Barbecue Class
Other Links mentioned in the episode:
- Ken’s Fiery World
- The Firecast Podcast Page on iTunes – please rate and review!
- Scott Roberts’ Blog
- Scott Roberts Facebook Page
- Scott Roberts Twitter Page
- Scott Roberts’ YouTube Channel
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A Five “Star” Lunch!! Fire up Your Tastebuds and Explore!!
Nothing like combining products and playing around with flavors, heat levels, and textures to make a meal a little more interesting and flavorful!! We have a kitchen at work and I have stocked it with fiery goodies from all over! It also creates conversation and questions about the products and companies. So I tend to put on little mini fiery world clinics at lunchtime (as long as it doesn’t compete with the big Showcase and the internal bidding game!).
Take my lunch today- leftover baked chicken- nothing special, boring, and screaming for a make-over!!!! So I used some Intensity Academy Gypsy Gold Dust and Volcanic Peppers Hot Garlic n Onion as a seasoning base. I blended some Zane & Zach’s Hab Honey Mustard, Rasta Bros. Passion Pepper Jelly, and Scotty O’Hotty Ghost Sauce as a glaze. A minute in the microwave and I transformed my dull, cold chicken breast into a fiery rainbow of flavor!! Everyone raved about how it smelled!!! But they weren’t brave enough to dig in!!! It was just a little too hot for their liking!!
So don’t be afraid to “mix and match” your favorite products!! They may not all work as well as this did for me, but it allows you explore, indulge, and tantalize your taste buds!!! And most of all, it’s just another way to enjoy our collective “Fiery World”!!!
Let’s Take it From the Top- Ken’s 2014 Top Ten Products on The Latest “Weekly Firecast” with Scott Roberts!
In this first episode of 2015, I reveal my 10 favorite new products of 2014, and my absolute single best product of the year. I tried to target products that were newly introduced in 2014, but there may be one or two from 2013!!! I know, I know…I can’t count!!! But listen up- from hot to mild, powders and sauces, and sweet to heat, I had a blast exploring the latest landscape of spicy goodness!! And there were lots of great products, but these 10 stood out as special! So have a listen and enjoy!! Why? Because, Ladies and Gentlemen, It’s a a Fiery World!!
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Episode #71 – Best Product of the Year Winners Born to Hula, Plus Ken’s Favourite Products of 2014
Scott chats with New Jersey-based Born to Hula Hot Sauce owners Ed and Amy Bucholtz, who make what Scott picked as best spicy food product of 2014 in their Reaper of Sorrow Carolina Reaper Hot Sauce.
In his regular segment, Ken Alexander offers his choices for best fiery foods products of the year.
Links mentioned in the episode:
- Born to Hula Hot Sauce Official Site
- Born to Hula on Facebook
- Born to Hula on Twitter
- Take Scott’s Fiery Foods & BBQ Survey
Ken’s Picks for Best Products of the Year:
- Volcanic Peppers
- Refining Fire Chiles
- Crazy Good Specialty Foods
- Madison Chocolatiers West
- CaJohn’s Fiery Foods
- Bigfat’s Hot Sauce
- Scotty O’Hotty Sauce
- Tom’s Roid Rippin Hot Sauce
Scott’s Picks for Best Products of the Year:
The Firecast is Sponsored in Part By:
- Sucklebusters – Texas BBQ Rubs, BBQ Sauces & Texas GunPowder! SuckleBusters is preferred by competition BBQ Cooks, and has won numerous awards including back-to-back 1st Place sauce wins at the American Royal – the World series of BBQ competitions.
Other Links mentioned in the episode:
- Ken’s Fiery World Blog
- The Firecast Podcast Page on iTunes – please rate and review!
- Scott Roberts’ Blog
- Scott Roberts Facebook Page
- Scott Roberts Twitter Page
- Scott Roberts’ YouTube Channel
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It's a Fiery World 