I've decided to largely do away with doing quarterly posts, mostly because I've posted exactly 2 hot sauce reviews for this year. As the lifespan of this blog goes on, it becomes harder and harder to find new and interesting stuff, both because I've covered quite a bit already, but also dietary changes and not having good sources at hand...that is until I found out that my most very favorite hot sauce purveyor and emporium has returned, that being Burn Your Tongue, a mini-storefront located in a place called the Quilted Bear, itself located in the Newgate Mall in Ogden. I believe he has an online store as well, so readers not within reach of the Wasatch range of Utah are encouraged to check into him. He's a good guy and deserves your support!
I have probably a dozen or more sauces awaiting testing and so on and if the first 3 I've tried (I re-upped yesterday, as I write this) are any indication, I should have some very intriguing deliciousness in store. I think too much of the year has gone by to really reach some of the numbers of previous years, but it will be more than 2, certainly.
I'm also going to be doing something later in the year, which is a first for this blog, and that is accepting some sponsored sauces for review purposes. Roger, the awesome guy behind BYT and the man responsible for sort of giving me a shot in the arm, has graciously offered up some of his fine wares (he does not produce any directly, but is a retailer with a good 300+ available offerings) to get me back swinging away here at TSAAF and it is mightily appreciated. After a bit of back and forth, it was decided that he would pick some to surprise me, so look for those later on in the year and I will note which are sponsored within the review itself.
It also got me to thinking and I'm strongly considering recanting my previous idea that I wouldn't ever be doing videos of any of this. I'm now kicking that can around a bit, as well as the idea that maybe I could put up some of my testing criteria (I tend to use benchmarks a lot) for the respective sauces. Is that of interest to anyone out there? It is probably going to be a good deal of work to shoot footage of various foods and me trying the sauces, but it would be kind of cool to have a video link, as well as the pictures now in the reviews themselves. I probably wouldn't be launching this until next year, so there's a bit of time, but please drop me a line and let me know if this is of interest to you. If enough people want this type of content, I might even move it up to the anniversary date of the blog itself (09/11) to kick things off. I am still holding firm to the idea that I will never be doing stuff like podcasts, at least for now, though I guess if it made sense in the future...
I also had the Reaper ranch sauce at Taco Bell. If they just made a hotter version of their previous Lava sauce, that would have been great. As it was, the ranch kind of wrecks things for me. I don't believe I've had any other memorable spicier options at any of various restaurants out there, but I always keep my eye out. The Reaper ranch was kind of a surprise, but also sort of a shame. It had promise, but should have been better. I wish it had been...
No comments:
Post a Comment