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Hot-Headz – Habanero & Chipotle Mustard Chips/Crisps

by Darth Naga on January 6, 2012 · 0 comments

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HAPPY NEW YEARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR CHILLI PADAWANZ!!! Its your old Pithlord chum Darth Naga, comin atchya all the way from sunny…who am I trying to kid?? RAINY HAMPSHIRE, straight into your eyeballs by means of your computer screen or mobile phone screen or whatever else you read/watch the chilefoundry reviews on!

Hot-Headz - Hot Chilli Crisps/Chips

Hot-Headz - Hot Chilli Crisps/Chips

Anyway, enough ofd the pleasentries for now, I are serious Darth and this are serious review…hmm maybe not. The product I have for you today is very special indeed, mainly because there has only been one real spicy chip manufacturer that satisfies the needs of proper chileheads..well I can tell you now thats all about to change!!

Ingredients:

Chipotle Mustard chips: Salad Mustard Solids, Salt, Maltodextrin, Modified Food Starch, Dehydrated Chipotle and Jalapeno Chili Peppers, Spices, Yeast Extract, Onion Powder, Apple Cider Vinegar, Natural Flavor, Citric Acid, and less than 2% Sunflower Oil and Silicon Dioxide used as processing aids.

Inferno Habanero chips: Natural Cane Sugar, Salt, Paprika, Dehydrated Habanero Pepper, Garlic Powder, Spices, Sunflower Oil, Natural Smoke Flavor, Extractives of Paprika, Natural Flavor, and less than 2%  Silicon Dioxide used as a processing aid.

(Review bags kindly supplied by Stu over at www.hot-headz.com)

Okay, so as you can probably now tell, I have TWO bags of potato chips, or CRISPS as we call them here in the UK, and they come straight out of our very own pioneer of the UK hotsauce scene, Hot-Headz! As you can see from the photo, straight up both these bags ooze quality, from the foil wrapping and the background flames to the massive hot-headz logo emblazoned across the front you know full well that these crisps are not to be messed with, and will surely taste good? Well lets let my video do the talking,and you guys can do the watching, btw at around the 6 minute mark I do something REALLY STUPID, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!!!…I’ll say it again…DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!

So there you have it, quite probably the finest chilli crisps in the west! I have to say that the heat on the inferno ones is a definite builder and will surely satisfy any chillihead who fancies a snack that isn’t chilli peanuts, and wants something that is actually available right now to buy ;) The chips are of an outstanding quality, I don’t think I can stress that enough, they really are good, not greasy or underflavoured at all, crunchy and savoury and bloody tasty too!

At £4.98 for TWO 142G bags over at www.hot-headz.com, you’d be fookin mad not to grab a couple bags of each flavour right now!! In fact i reckon they’d go perfect with the hot-headz chile con queso dip..which remind me, I must get some of that!!

Anyway, without further ado my chilli padawanz, I will see you all soon, happy new year and all that shite :D May the sauce be with you, always!!!

Flavour
(9.5/10)
Heat
(7.5/10)
Packaging
(10/10)
Value
(9/10)
Overall
(9.5/10)

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Darth Naga Video Review of Heart Throb from The Chilli Pepper Co.

by Darth Naga on December 8, 2011 · 0 comments

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Happy Chrimbo/Hannuka/Xmas/Christmas and whatever the heck else people celebrate/call it during the yuletide season, I know I usually say “I’ve got a cracking review for you all today” but this time I haven’t just got a cracking review, I have what could be the ULTIMATE chrimbo gift for Chilli headz, and whaddya know, it comes from the UK’s answer to Blair, our very own Gerald Fowler of The Chilli Pepper Company!!

Heart Throb from The Chilli Pepper Company

Heart Throb from The Chilli Pepper Company

Gerald has created a one of a kind artisan sauce, for those of you who like your collectors items, wrap your peepers round this, because its a doozy!!

Ingredients: Trinidad Scorpion and Naga Viper Chilli, Tomatoes, Vinegar, Spices, Chilli Flavour.

Review bottles kindly supplied by Ged over at www.chileseeds.co.uk

Okay let me just start this by saying that “Heart Throb” is by no means the hottest sauce the CPC has ever done, oh noooooo that particular badge belongs firmly on the chest of “15 Minute Burn”, but this is by far the sauce that CPC has that covers both heat and flavour in equal measures..so you could say (and I quote) that this is their hottest and tastiest sauce yet..so its the hottest of their tasty sauces!

The packaging is nothing short of fooking legendary, I thought i had seen it all, but this sauce comes in a heart shaped bottle with an oldschool style pop top, the label hanging around its neck from gold thread like a medallion of bragging rights, this one is a definite collectors bottle, its the sort of thing you’d see in a major sauce fans collection for hundreds of dollars…BUT! This is the UK we’re talking about…and its the CPC..so you KNOW its not gonna be THAT expensive..I think at this point I’ll let my video do the talking, to give you an idea of the flavour and heat of this one, take a look at this…

What did I tell you?? Its warm, but its not off the charts..its tasty, but its got a kick like a proverbial mule! But go ahead and do a dessert spoon of it and you WILL regret it, this stuff is best used sparingly, add it to dips and sprinkle on chips, chuck a bit in your chilli or mix it in to a curry..whatever you do with you’ll enjoy it, and thats the main part!

The sauce comes in three varieties and as such, commands three different price tags:

  1. Heart Throb sauce boxed in LTD edition bottle: £5
  2. Heart Throb sauce boxed in LTD edition bottle with wax sealed vial of 1 million shu oleoresin: £10
  3. Heart Throb sauce boxed in LTD edition bottle with wax sealed vial of 15 million shu pure crystal extract (also a collectors item and worth £12 on its own!): £15

If you want my advice, and you know a big hot sauce fan..head on over to www.chileseeds.co.uk and get em the deluxe £15 edition to put on display and the £5 edition for them to actually taste the sauce (because it really does have to be tasted!) and they’ll love you forever, trust me, ANY chilli fan will be happy with this in their collection, in fact I’d be extremely surprised to meet any chilli head who DOESN’T want a bottle of this, then of course I’ll give em a slap so they come to their senses!!

Anyway, happy yule my chile padawanz, and until we next meet, may the sauce be with you…always!!

Flavour
(8/10)
Heat
(10/10)
Packaging
(10/10)
Value
(10/10)
Overall
(9/10)

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The Wiltshire Chilli Farm – Septenary

by Darth Naga on December 3, 2011 · 1 comment

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The Wiltshire Chilli Farm - Septenary

The Wiltshire Chilli Farm - Septenary

Brrrrr chilli padawanz!! Its a frigging cold November day and of course we are edging ever closer to that one day of the year where we can all eat like pigs and exchange gifts and have parties..nooo i’m not talking about my birthday, i’m talking about chrimbo of course!! This particular review is rather special for two reasons, first of all, my good friend “Nervous Nick” helped me do the video review and he’s never done one before, so this was good fun, and secondly the product featured in the review will make a perfect chrimbo bargain for anyone looking for a special gift for that chillehead in their lives!!

The product itself is the result of alot of hard work, time and effort on the part of Jamie Sythes over at the Wiltshire Chilli Farm (www.justchillies.co.uk) You may remember Jamie from the Yellow 7pot video I did with him during the Great Dorset Chilli Festival, anyway lets crack on and talk about this AWESOME gift pack!

Ingredients:

  • The Yellow one:  Yellow 7 pot, Sugar, Cider Vinegar, Pineapple, Salt
  • The Red one: Red 7 pot, Sugar, Cider Vinegar, Romano Pepper, Salt
  • The Brown one: Brown/Chocolate 7 pot, Brown Sugar, Red Wine Vinegar, Red Onion, Salt

Review box supplied by www.justchillies.co.uk

Sooooooooooooo this is your introduction to what is quite honestly one of the bestly dressed sauce collection I have seen, the “Septenary” gift box is a lovely black leather look gift box with the words “Wiltshire Chilli Farm”, “Septenary” and a lovely silhouette of a 7pot in white on the front, inside are three bottle’s of very vivid coloured sauce, so vivid infact that you’d automatically assume they were artificially coloured, but as you can see from the ingedients list, they are’nt!!

I could easily reel off a couple of paragraphs describing the flavour and heat of these three sauces, but i think me and Nick do a grand job of describing them in the video below, its 15 mins, but we do review three cracking sauces:

So what did you think of that?? As I said in the video, if Carlsberg made 7pot sauces…you know the rest, suffice to say that for the measley sum of £15 from www.justchillies.co.uk you get a box set that any chilehead would be grateful of for Christmas (hint hint!), this pack has the heat and the flavour, and with three to choose from you are sure to have the right sauce for any dish, all in the one box, well worth the moolah if you ask me!!

Right, until next time my chilli padawanz, may the sauce be with you, always!!!

Flavour
(8/10)
Heat
(8/10)
Packaging
(10/10)
Value
(9/10)
Overall
(9/10)

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Sinful Sauces – Scotch Bonnet and Pomegranate Pickle

by Darth Naga on November 21, 2011 · 1 comment

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Word up my chilli padawanz, how are you all doing on this crisp autumn day? Its bloody sunny and quite warm here..doesn’t really feel like autumn at all! Sooo where shall I begin with this review? AH YES! I shall start at the beginning of course! The pickle I have for you today comes from the now well known “Sinful Sauces” a company formed by a lovely couple who go by the name of Paul and Kelly, paul you might know as “DJ Brisk” I think he’s a techno DJ or something like that, I would’nt know specifics as us PithLord’s don’t really get out much you see? But that aside it’s not the music we’re here to review its the pickle!! SO lets get down to it.

Sinful Sauces - Scotch Bonnet & Pomegranate

Sinful Sauces - Scotch Bonnet & Pomegranate

Okay, so as you can see, there’s a whole lotta fresh ingedients going on in this pickle, none of that artificial shit here, and quite rightly so, Sinful Sauces (abbreviated to SS from here on in) pride themselves on only using the freshest ingredients and no artificial colourings or flavours, only the best for their customers ya see? Anyway, the jar itself is of SS’s usual high quality gloss finish, with lots of S’s in the background with Sinful’s trademark giant white gothic styled S in the foreground.

Ingredients: Scotch Bonnet Chillies, Pomegranate, Onion, Orange, Red Wine Vinegar, Rapeseed Oil, Spices, Ginger, Garlic.

Review jar supplied by www.sinfulsauces.co.uk

The pickle inside is a rich reddy brown, with noticeable chunks of chilli, seeds and flecks of black and white running through. Upon opening the pickle, the first thing that hits me hard is the smell..i was expecting pomegranate and yet I got a massive whiff of orange, like someone had smacked me round the face with a bag of satsumas! I LOVE orange, and it’s not surprising I smelt it the most seeing as the third item on the ingredients list, that aside I could tell there was chilli in this, but the main fragrance was that of oranges!

The pickle inside was of an interesting consistency..it was chunkyish, but not so much that there were huge chunks of chilli or orange in it…but at the same time it was smooth enough that it would flow out of the jar albeit very, very slowly..but it still poured!! I decided enough was enough of teasing myself with this pickle, I dipped my spoon in and pulled out a rather large glob of this fantastic looking mash, placing it between my lips and moving it around in my mouth to get a fuller taste of it.

Instantly I was hit by the pomegranate and orange flavours, almost too sweet were it not for the savoury, slightly bitter hit provided by the scotch bonnet peppers! I was surprised that the flavours worked together this well..its not very often you find a sauce that starts off sweet and becomes savoury with a very indian restaurant-like aftertaste coupled with an amazing tongue burn that just keeps you coming back for another hit!

It wasn’t until I gave a single solitary hiccup did I notice that sweat was pouring down my brow, at this point I decided to stop eating the pickle and carry on writing this review.

The more I eat this stuff the more I realise that yet again Sinful Sauces have a winning combination on their hands, and yet again its a very moreish pickle that would not be out of place in an indian restaurant, the fruity zing of the orange and pomegranate, coupled with the scotch bonnet heat makes this a pickle that is well worth trying at least once!! I suspect it would be PERFECT mixed with a little sour cream and used as a nice dip for toasted pitta’s cut into strips!

At only £3.95 directly from www.sinfulsauces.co.uk this is a pickle that will last a while, and considering just how fresh the ingredients are I think its well worth the money, so make sure you get it in ready for your next indian themed meal!

Well, until my next review my chilli padawanz, I will bid you adieu, this old pithlord has gotta get some shut eye! May the sauce be with you, always!!

Flavour
(8/10)
Heat
(6/10)
Packaging
(8/10)
Value
(6/10)
Overall
(7/10)

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