League of Fire – Chilli Eating Champions
The League of Fire is the original league table-based website and community dedicated to chilli-eating enthusiasts from all over the world. The LOF team painstakingly tallies an elaborate and detailed ranking system where point values are allocated to competitors when they successfully complete league certified challenges, bringing together a community of literal fire-eaters from all around the globe to push their heat tolerance, stamina, and intestinal fortitude.
Based out of the UK, two chileheads, Matt Tangent and Paul Ouro came up with a way to put a spotlight on the competitive eaters and the hyper challenge minded, it was their way to showcase these achievements and bring a community together with friendly competition and sharing an extreme passion for consuming ultra hot food and chilli peppers. This vision paired with their first belt match on July 21st, 2019, launched the League of Fire into what it is today.
Currently there are four championship belts being held worldwide; the Oceana Belt held by Gabby Del Castillo from Australia, the European Belt held by Giancarlo Gasparotto from Italy, the Americas Belt held by Kris Fragile from the US, and the World Chilli Eating Championship Belt held by Mike Jack from Canada. Mike is the all-time points leader and two-time Americas Regional Belt Championship, along with being the reigning Extreme Chilli Alliance World Champion. Mike also holds several Guinness World Records for speed-eating, many of which are for super-hot chilli peppers.
HAVOC IS Coming!
Hot Sauce HAVOC is the spicy brainchild project from Smokin’ Ed Currie of Puckerbutt Pepper Company and Steve Seabury of High River Sauces. These two maniacs came up with the idea of challenging small batch artisan hot sauce makers in a “Chopped” style competition to ultimately test their individual skills under strict time limits and a ton of pressure to create the best tasting hot sauce that matches each unique style of the cities the competitions were held in.
How it works is, each competitor has the same core ingredients to work with in their mystery basket, they are then given time to quickly shop the stocked setup pantry to find their own unique items to formulate their perfect sauce with their own individuality and flair. But what the competitors didn’t know is that they would face challenges and roadblocks along their culinary journey. The dreaded “Wheel of Doom” looming eerily on stage with them, threatening to bring its own HAVOC down upon them relentlessly and unforgivingly.
The first season of Hot Sauce HAVOC will be available weekly on YouTube with Ep. 1: Making a Hot Sauce That Tastes Like a Chicago Hot Dog now up at: https://youtube.com/@hotsaucehavoc
Be sure to tune in each week for a new episode and follow along as some of the best artisan hot sauce makers are tested, challenged, and see who ultimately wreaks HAVOC on their competitors. It’s sure to be a wild ride!