El Yucateco Kutbil-IK XXXtra Hot

This is perhaps the most important habanero hot sauce that we’ve run across in terms of adding heat to your own sauces. El Yucateco makes a number of fine hot sauces, including a bright red and a bright green habanero that’s a little more up front, a little more vinegary. But you can’t go wrong with this ancient, Mayan recipe, it’s even naturally colored which means a dank salmon, almost-rust colored tint that screams “do not fuck with me.”
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Chili Scramble

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Sake Bomb Tempeh w/ Coco-mash

The words ‘Sake Bomb’ paint violent pictures of straw villages being mushroomed by atom bombs AND spring break college brats downing shots at sushi bars. For a recipe that recalls neither, try this dish of sake-marinated tempeh with a beer battered tempura. Decidedly more respectable. Continue reading

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Knee Deep at the Grilled Cheese Invitational

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Last weekend we, at Hot Knives, became official “Fucking Grilled Cheese Champions.” No, that’s our actual title, and we have trophies to prove it. Good thing too, cuz if not for these gleaming little bronze men holding glue-gunned, plastic sandwiches, the whole night would be a forgotten blur of butter burns and beer aches. Continue reading

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California IPAs, Belguim-style, and Porters

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California beer is as diverse as the state’s geography, climate and population, precisely because all of those factors go into a killer brew. From Humboldt hemp ales to the stouts of the Central Valley, to the hoppier-than-thou pale ales from atop the Sierras, California rules. So when Hot Knives was asked to review a selection of Cali beers, we nearly had to be restrained from pawning our kitchen equipment for beer money. After three days of inter-office intoxication and the throwing around of a lot of frou frou adjectives, we cast our scores and compiled a descriptive list of every bottle we could squeeze on the break-room table. Though we should point out that we’d gladly get wasted on any of these fine beers. Cheers! Continue reading

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“Bloody Sunday” Cocktail & Toast

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‘One For the Doctor’ Pizza

If every slice of pizza had a good dose of psychotropic weed oil in it, you’d probably think twice about devouring the whole thing before your roommates came home. Our ‘One For the Doctor’ pie combines beer and weed, for the perfect pizza every time. Now share.

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Veegan Fury

Dear Mr. Brown,
I read your “Hot Knives” recipe column “Tofu Stroganoff” with interest, and I am a vegan who doesn’t poison himself, only to find the recipe includes an egg, a stick of butter, and wine.
Eggs are the product of callous humans caging up birds. Butter is ditto from cows. After these fellow creatures are no longer useful, they are sent to slaughterhouses (perhaps to make pet food).
Wine is from vegan sources, then fermented to produce alcohol, a poison!
Slaughtered creatures are filled with poison: cholesterol, adrenaline (from fear), etc.
Cash-wise, a healthy vegan diet does not cost nearly as much as an omnivore one does. Honey too is not vegan, as bees suffer in the wooden hives human omnivores have built. Add sea salt and wisdom, and everyone will be happy except the butchers et al.
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Who Are These Knivez?

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Alex Brown and Evan George are former line-cooks who used to use hot knives for more illict purposes, but decided to turn their lives around so that others may start eating properly and drinking better beer.
We live in Los Angeles. We don’t cook with meat. And we like sharpening our knives about as much as we like: bicycling, performing harsh noise music, gardening, slugging whiskey, and muckraking. We believe in cheap groceries, cooking with high alcohol content beer and free leisure. We hate weak sauces.
We video cook here. You can be our friend here.
Feel free to add, comment or write us at HotKnivez@gmail.com.
H. K.

Portrait by artist/roommate Julie Lequin. Photographs by Aaron Farley and Sarah Meadow!

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