CaJohn’s – I Love It Spicy!

Lenny Awards – Best Spicy Products of 2017

December 19, 2017December 19, 2017 Buddah 2017, Angry Goat Pepper Company, Best of 2017, Born to Hula, CaJohn's, Fix Hot Sauce, Jersey Barnfire, Lazy Y Ranch, Lenny Awards, Mikey V's, Mr B's Salsa, NRJ Spice, Parker's Gourmet, Product of the Year, Torchbearer Sauces, Truth Serum, Voodoo Chile Sauces, Zane Zack's

Welcome to the 8th Annual Lenny Awards for the best new spicy products. The Lenny Award is named after my Father who died of Cancer on this very day back in 2010. Rather than mourn his death, I am here to celebrate his life and how he would help total strangers in need just because he could. I am trying to do the same with the Lenny Award by giving something from my heart to an industry and community that I love. The Lenny is given to my favorite new products and there is no other factor involved in my choice. I don’t get a chance to try everything in due time, so some of these products might be older than 2017 when I first got a chance to try them. I have listed the names of the companies below the video that either received a Lenny Award or got an honorable mention. If you do not want to view that spoiler list, go watch the video and enjoy the moment there.

The Lenny Awards have not been purchased yet, as I will need some of the addresses of the companies I will not see at the NYC Hot Sauce Expo come April. Those companies that attend that great event will have them presented by me in person. Those that do not, will get them mailed directly to whatever address you provide me with. The video is long as I ramble a lot and I try to give each product I mention their due. The addresses below are there for a reason. I hope you will give some thought into purchasing a few of these winners. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. Besides, it is the holiday season and some of these fine artisan products might still be on sale.

Thank you for your time and congratulations to all the fiery product makers for making such flavorful and delicious food enhancements.

Chilehead Gatherings Events For Entertainment Purposes Only Interviews

Spicy Product Makers Round Table – Part 2

February 27, 2014February 27, 2014 Buddah Bigfats, Born to Hula, CaJohn's, Chuck Evans, Ed Bucholtz, Flaming Joe, Flaming Joe's, Heartbreaking Dawns, High River Sauces, Jeremy Walsh, Joe Leicht, Johnny McLaughlin, Montezuma Brand, North Market, round table, Spicy Product Makers, Steve Seabury

Part 2 of our interview with some of the spicy product makers in our Chilehead community continues where we left off. You can see Part 1 HERE. We elevate to more serious questions in this part including new spicy trends and tips for people who want to get into this industry. Unfortunately, the drinking that began well before the interview kicked off is now starting to take it’s toll with some of our participants. As the discussion continues we begin to lose a few of our makers to outside influences. In the end, I think we touched on some great points, and hope it is well perceived to those that have put in the time to watch it.

Our round table existed of Jeremy Walsh from Bigfats Hot Sauce, Ed Bucholtz from Born to Hula Hot Sauce, Steve Seabury from High River Sauces, Chuck Evans from Montezuma Brand Sauces & Salsas, Johnny McLaughlin from Heartbreaking Dawns and Joe Leicht from Flaming Joe’s, Inc. A big thanks to them all for giving us the time to do this. As well as a huge thanks to CaJohn for letting us use his place and private meeting room to house it in.

If we are lucky enough, we will get to do this round table discussion again with some other great spicy product makers at the NYC Hot Sauce Expo next month and/or the Bowers Chile Festival in September. If you are a spicy product maker interested in doing one of these and want to get yourself a seat at the next one, please let me know. Thanks and enjoy part 2!

TELL ME SOMETHING I DIDN'T KNOW

TELL ME SOMETHING I DIDN’T KNOW Part 8

August 24, 2012August 24, 2012 Buddah CaJohn's, chili, Italian, Macioces, Macioces Hot Italian salsa, pizza, salsa

TELL ME SOMETHING I DIDN’T KNOW is a segment where I draw your attention to products you do not here many people talking about, maybe products or companies you might never have heard about before. While CaJohn’s Flavor & Fire isn’t one of those companies, (unless you are a newbie to the spicy world of products), not many people discuss CaJohn’s salsa too much, specifically the Macioces Hot Italian salsa.

Events

The Lastest from the 2012 North Market Fiery Food Festival

February 18, 2012February 19, 2012 Buddah 2012, CaJohn's, Columbus, North Market, OH

Chilehead Gatherings Events

North Market Fiery Food Festival Sneak Peek

February 15, 2012February 14, 2012 Buddah 2012, Asian Fiery Dinner, CaJohn's, Fiery Food Festival, North Market, Open House

Multiple Person Reviews Reviews

REVIEW: CaJohn’s Trinidad Scorpion Salsa

January 18, 2012January 17, 2012 Buddah Buddah, CaJohn's, Missouri Boyz, Ryan Graub, salsa, Scott Roberts, The Machine, Trinidad Scorpion

Events For Entertainment Purposes Only

Steve Smith vs CaJohn’s Xecution Station

September 21, 2010September 21, 2010 Buddah 2010 Houston Hot Sauce Show, CaJohn's, execution, Xecution Station

Product Recommendations

Buddah’s Favorite Salsas

May 12, 2010June 30, 2010 Buddah Big Dawg, Buddah, CaJohn's, Chile Man, Fat Kid Sauces, favorites, Marco's, Montezuma Brand, Not Yet Famous, Rancho Bravo, salsa, Salsa King, Santa Fe Seasons, Twisted Twin, Xerarchs

Product Recommendations Recipes

Buddah’s Spicy PB & J Sammich

May 10, 2010May 9, 2010 Buddah bagel, Berry Hot Jelly, CaJohn's, Fire Dust'd, jelly, P-Nut But'r, Patter Fam, pb & j, peanut butter

Uncategorized

Happy Birthday Review

May 6, 2010December 4, 2011 Buddah CaJohn's, extract, Happy Birthday, Justin, mongoose

Reviews Solo Review

Scott Takes on KFC’s New Double Down Sandwich

April 13, 2010April 12, 2010 Buddah all spice cafe, bacon, CaJohn's, cheese, chicken, Defcon, double, down, fried, hot, kentucky, kfc, sauce

Giving in to the hype of being an egregiously unhealthy menu item, my buddy John Nemec and I couldn’t resist and we each grabbed one of KFC’s Double Down Sandwiches for lunch yesterday, which also happened to be the first day of it’s chainwide releases. He videoed me while I gave my first impressions: