There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Credit: Photo by John Anderson

Have you ever considered quitting your day job to make more hot sauce? If you show up to a party with homemade salsa do you get bombarded with recipe requests? Does your grandma make the best hot sauce in town? Is your crush obsessed with Carolina Reapers?

There’s a fine line between pleasure and pain. Credit: Photo by John Anderson

Maybe you’ve never even attempted to make hot sauce, but you haven’t made any plans yet for this weekend. Rest easy, pepper head, we’ve got the perfect solution for your surely-soon-to-be-named Best in Show sauce: We’re still accepting competition sauce entries for the 29th Hot Sauce Festival on Sunday, August 25!

Sure, it’s hot, but you know you want to attend the festival anyway, so why not join in the salsa-making fun? After all, the whole shindig benefits the Central Texas Food Bank. For a better idea of the historically very stiff competition check out our past winners and then start preparing yourself for life in the super hot fast lane.

Fill out the 2019 entry form here.

This article appears in August 16 • 2019.

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