From social media crazes like the one chip challenge – where people were dared to eat a single tortilla chip infused with the world’s hottest chilli, the Carolina reaper – to super-charged sauces, it ...

MEXICAN festival Day of the Dead will be celebrated at Gladstone’s only Mexican restaurant --- with a ghost chilli hot sauce challenge. The ghost chilli is Mexico's hottest chilli and the folk at ...

If you need your ID at the ready to buy a ready meal to prove you're over 18, you know it's because they're so spicy, they're bound to blow your socks off. I consider myself quite capable of handling ...

When Clint Meyer created New Zealand’s hottest chilli sauce company Fire Dragon Chillies five-and-a-half years ago it was an extension of a hobby. Now it’s a full time role just to keep up with demand ...

Pan-Asian restaurant Gilgamesh has turned up the heat in the kitchen and created an explosive menu using a selection of the world’s hottest chillies. Executive chef, Ian Pengelley, has brought the ...

The Carolina Reaper has been officially dethroned as the world’s hottest chili pepper. PuckerButt Pepper Co. founder and pepper expert Ed Currie has spent the past 10 years working on Pepper X, a ...

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen and into the lab -- chemists can now use carbon nanotubes to judge the heat of chilli sauces. The technology might soon be available commercially as ...

Ed Sheeran has come out with a range of hot sauces – and his latest is the spiciest one yet. Yes, you read that right. The Shape of You hitmaker has ventured into the culinary world with his latest ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Gladstone. Followed categories will be added to My News. The ghost chilli is Mexico's hottest chilli and the folk at Guzman Y Gomez have imported the sauce for the ...

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