Who’s web site draws the most traffic, by look­ing at this list you can­not help that draw the con­clu­sion that the num­ber of qual­ity links to a site has a sig­ni­fic­ant bene­fit on it num­ber of vis­it­ors (Google we under­stand uses the num­ber and qual­ity of the links to a site as part of it PageR­ank™ sys­tem), if you look at the con­tent of the sites at the top of the list­ing you also find that the amount of tex­tural con­tent is also a major factor.

We are  cur­rently log­ging the stat­ist­ics for 20+ sites that we feel are import­ant, if you think your site should be on our lists, please email us via our con­tact form and let us know.

Rank	Company/Web Site	Alexa Rank	Links
1	Chil­lis Galore	900215	42
2	Chilli World	1057709	40
3	South Devon Chilli Farm	1119676	31
4	The Chilli Pep­per Company	1403188	41
5	MexGrocer.co.uk	1733409	46
6	Hot Headz	2121975	13
7	World of Chillies	2400242	6
8	Scorchio	2852969	18
9	Funky Pep­per	3297798	2
10	The Chile Foundry	3527921	5

This is based on data from Alexa (data recorded on 22/07/09)

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Grow­ing over 10,000 chilli plants the South Devon Chilli Farm has grown a lot since it opened early in 2003.

Run by Jason Nick­els and Steve Waters with up to 5 staff at busy times. The farm is spread between two loc­a­tions and is situ­ated approx­im­ately halfway between Torquay and Plymouth.

The main site is near the vil­lage of Lod­dis­well and is approx 10 acres with a small shop that they open all year round, 7 days a week, between 10am-4pm. There is also a show poly tun­nel in which they dis­play examples of the vari­et­ies they grow. The second site is in South Milton and con­sists of 4 poly tunnels

With 2,500 square meters of chilli plants, they har­ves­ted over a mil­lion chil­lies last year alone.

There online shop sells Fresh Chiles dur­ing the sea­son (July – Novem­ber), Smoke and Dried chil­lies, Chilli Powders, Chilli Chocol­ate Pre­serves, Sauces and even a range of seeds.

There latest range of products includes a Extreme Bhut Jolokia Sauce, Mash and Jam.

There have a whole­sale online shop of their stock­ists, who while mainly in the south west can also be found as far away as Derby­shire and Cum­bria, a com­plete list can be found on their web site. They have even got some of their products for sale on Amazon

A num­ber of foodie celebrity includ­ing Jamie Oliver and Tom Parker-Bowles (We like Tom as he ref­er­enced my book a num­ber of times) are amongst their fans.

They seem like a very for­ward think­ing busi­ness whose growth is base on good ser­vice and products, we hope dur­ing the sum­mer to visit them and bring back some pic­tures for you to see.

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Marks & Spen­cer has launched a new pep­per they are nam­ing the ACE pep­per, so what is so spe­cial about this pepper?

This pep­per con­tains half the vit­amin A all the vit­amin C and half the vit­amin E our bod­ies require each day.

The pep­per was dis­covered in Israel and has been developed by M&S in Waltham Cross. It is described as being a darker red and slightly longer that the nor­mal bell pep­per, with a lovely sweet flavour.

We will let you know more once we have col­lec­ted some from our nearest M&S

On a visit to Tesco, recently my hero’s after stock­ing 10 vari­et­ies of chilli pep­pers, I dis­covered a range of snack products called “To share…” I selec­ted the “10 Stuffed red & green Jalapeno pep­pers” and as it was an “any 2 for £5.50” I also picked up some breaded chicken wings.

The stuffed jalapeno’s took 14 minutes to cook at gas mark 5, and I served then with the included sweet chilli dip, the bat­ter was crisp in places, but a lot thin­ner that in the pic­ture on the pack­aging, the cream cheese was well spread, but the jalapeno’s had not a hint of fla­vour, none, they could have been bell pep­pers, but even they prob­ably would have been better.

I will not go into the chilli sauce in any depth, just to say, it was prob­ably made from the same chil­lies (Edit­or­ial Note: Please see our own Extra Hot Sweet Chilli Sauce recipe).

On the other hand, the chicken wings where great, a hint of spice in the coat­ing, after eat­ing a couple I poured some wing sauce on them and they made my day, the coat­ing stayed crisp even after adding the sauce, lots of tasty meat. I recom­mend they add some good wing sauce in the pack and sell them as Crispy Buf­falo Wings.

I know in the past I have com­plained about not deep fry­ing buf­falo wings, but with the crispy coat­ing these worked well.

Visit www.tesco.com for more information.

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Stu­art McAl­lister star­ted Hot-Headz about 14 years ago with just a hand­ful of sauces from the amer­ican mar­ket in their cata­logue, impor­ted for us brits, nowadays they are slowly becom­ing the fore­front for the uk hot sauce mar­ket, import­ing the best world­wide hot sauces and of course mak­ing their own brand sauces also, one of these is the sauce i have today, the “Pasilla” chile sauce!

Stu­art believes this to be the only Pasilla sauce comer­cially avail­able on the uk mar­ket­place and i would’nt dis­agree, i’ve never seen one before. The sauce itself is a lovely rich brown color with black speckles and seeds and the label is bright yel­low with the Hot-Headz green and red chile logo proudly displayed.

Ingredi­ents:
Vin­egar, Water, Chile pep­pers (23%), crushed toma­toes, Gar­lic, Onion, Spices & xanthan gum.

The sauce itself smells highly of vin­egar with a hint of spices but once tasted you’ll note the dis­tinct pep­pery fla­vour and the nice amount of gar­lic thrown in…sure you’ll also taste the vin­egar but its not so over­power­ing as to detract from the subtle smoky fla­vour present in the pasilla chile’s, in fact i believe the only thing this sauce lacks is heat, of which i found none at all, there is a sightly spicy tingle but the heat is’nt even com­par­able to the mild­est of tabasco sauces, so psy­cho­pathic chile headz (myself included) who are look­ing for the next hot­test thing may want to leave this one to the milder mannered chile fans!

The sauce is only avail­able from www.Hot-Headz.com and at only £2.99 for what is pos­sibly the UK’s only pasilla sauce i think this is good value, espe­cially for those who love fla­vour­ful sauce but don’t really want the heat usu­ally asso­ci­ated with tastier sauces. I can’t think of any­thing to com­pare this to although Mrs Naga did point out that it tasted a little like spicy brown sauce, so take that as you will!

I would buy this sauce for the days that you want fla­vour with a hint of heat as opposed to the days when you’re feel­ing a bit nuts and fancy burn­ing off the roof of your mouth!!! I have a bottle of this cur­rently but don’t use alot of it as i prefer the wilder side of things that www.hot-headz.com sell!

Till next time Chile Headz, stay sharp and keep breath­ing fire!!!

Edit­or­ial Note: The Pasilla Chile or Chile Negro as it is also know, is the dried form of the Chilaca chile. They have a sweet, dark and smoky aroma with an almost black skin. Together with the Mulato and Ancho they for part of the holy trin­ity of chil­lies use in the Mex­ican national dish Mole. — Hot Juan

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