Spicy Food Reviews (and Recipes)

Where Fire Meets Flavor: Covering Foods That Bring the Heat!

Spicy Snack Roundup: Baja Fiery Mango Doritos, Andy Capp’s Fire Fries, and Chex Mix MAX’D Spicy Dill

In my latest spicy snack roundup, I sample a recently released bag of chips on loan from Limited-Time-Only-Ville (Baja Fiery Mango Doritos) along with two snacks that you will likely only find while on the road (Andy Capp's Fire Fries and Chex Mix MAX'd Spicy Dill). Baja Fiery Mango Doritos: Doritos is going back to combining fruit and heat after experimenting with the Spicy Pineapple flavor last Fall (more on that here). This time, they are...

Spicy Food News: Wendy’s Spices Up Its Nuggets, Panda Express Adds Hot Orange Chicken, and More

Wendy's Adds Saucy Nuggs to the Menu The chicken nuggets from Wendy's have long been fan favorites, and now that chain is adding sauces to those (and calling them "Saucy Nuggs"), some of which bring a kick. Seven total sauces will be offered with the nuggets: Honey BBQ, Garlic Parm, Buffalo, Spicy Honey BBQ, Spicy Garlic Parm, Spicy Buffalo, and Spicy Ghost Pepper. Here is the official description of the five that have some heat: Buffalo: A...

Go-To Hot Sauce: Tapatio Salsa Picante

Bottom Line: Tapatio is a Mexican-style hot sauce with an intense flavor and good heat, and it can be used as a topping or ingredient with plenty of dishes. This tasty sauce has been around for a while (it started in 1971) and is quite well-known, for good reason. It packs some heat, but it won’t send the average mortal screaming from the room, and it also brings plenty of flavor. You will often see it in Mexican restaurants, but it works with...