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By Hot Juan, August 25, 2010 1:04 pm

Atkins and Potts Chi­potle Chilli Mayonnaise

Atkins and Potts are based in New­bury, Berkshire and is still a fam­ily owned busi­ness, they make all their products in small batches, I found this jar in one of our favour­ite Deli’s Bramble and Sage , just down the road in Sut­ton Montis, I often seem to find inter­est­ing products on their shelves, also their cof­fee is excellent.

The Mayo comes in a 220g tall jar, it has a slight red tinge to the nor­mal mayo col­our with a few flecks of Chilli being vis­ible in the mix, on open­ing there is the unmis­tak­able smell of lemon drift­ing up.

Ingredi­ents: Rape­seed oil, Pas­teur­ised Free Range Egg Yolk, Water, White Wine Vin­egar, Sugar, Pre­pared Dijon Mus­tard (Water Mus­tard Seeds, Sprit Vin­egar, Salt), Salt, Dried Chi­potle Chil­lies (0.8%), Con­cen­trated Lemon Juice, Smoked Paprika.

The tex­ture of the mayo is excel­lent; the first taste in the mouth is of qual­ity may­on­naise, then the smoki­ness of the Chi­potles and Paprika, fol­lowed by the gentle warmth, it is a very pleas­ur­able exper­i­ence, one I am repeat­ing again and again was I write this.

They have not added a lot of Chi­potle, just 0.8% and then just a little Smoked Paprika, but it is enough to impart the fla­vour without over­power­ing the eggs, lemon and mus­tard, this has not just become another way of impart­ing a burn to the consumer.

For me this could be used to replace nor­mal may­on­naise in almost all situ­ations, I love it, it may not suit hardened Chilli Heads, but it is a def­in­ite gour­met product.

Fla­vour	(8/10)
Heat	(2/10)
Pack­aging	(7/10)
Value	(7/10)
Over­all	(7/10)

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By Hot Juan, August 20, 2010 6:42 am

The Smokey Joe Sauce Com­pany — Jerk Marinade

I like the taste of jerk, but I find most of the com­mer­cial ver­sions of this Jamaican fla­vour­ing tend to be a pale imit­a­tion of the real thing of which there are lots of dif­fer­ent ver­sions, but they all have a few things in com­mon, a com­plete depth of fla­vour with no fillers and they are all rich, warm and fra­grant with no short­age of spices.

On find­ing a jerk season­ing from the Smokey Joe Sauce Com­pany, I was not expect­ing to much from a UK made product.

As I opened the jar the smell was fant­astic, tak­ing me back to the Carib­bean, and beach bar­be­cued chicken, it is a rich aroma of fruity Scotch Bon­net, and the All­spice that fills my nose.

I tried dip­ping some bread into the paste and the fla­vour is as good as the smell, but not I can also taste the thyme and spring onions.

Ingredi­ents — Scotch Bon­net Chil­lies, Spring Onions, Fresh Thyme, All­spice, Malt Vin­egar, Salt, Sugar, Herbs and Spices.

I was going to pho­to­graph cook­ing this on chicken on the BBQ, but I got a bit car­ried away and there was not a lot left to pho­to­graph (opps Sorry, I will try again).

This jerk was cre­ated by Joe & Nic­ola Knight who run The Smokey Joe Sauce Com­pany and if born from their pas­sion of Carib­bean Island cuisine which they enjoyed dur­ing there travels around the islands.

A more enthu­si­astic couple you could not wish to meet, I vis­ited their stall at Grill­Stock in Bris­tol and sampled the jerk again as well as their Bajan Season­ing which while not hot is also truly excellent.

You can order online at www.smokeyjoesauces.co.uk or find on the site a list of local stock­ests, at £3.10 for a 200g jar this is good value for money.

P.S. I almost for­got to men­tion this jerk has also won a Taste of the West Bronze Award, I think I would have given it a Gold.

Fla­vour	(9/10)
Heat	(3/10)
Pack­aging	(6/10)
Value	(8/10)
Over­all	(8/10)

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By Lizzi, August 18, 2010 9:37 am

Holy Cow — Him­alayan Hot Garlic

Indian food has become very pop­u­lar and read­ily avail­able. I love Indian food and this Indian influ­enced hot sauce is no excep­tion. This is the per­fect sauce for and fans of Indian and Garlic!

When open­ing this sauce, be care­ful, you will be hit by a strong gar­lic smell. You can get a hint of a slight lemon scent and a fair amount of chilli. It has the thin con­sist­ency that you would expect from a sauce, dip or dress­ing the ingredi­ents are well mixed and the sauce does not seperate.

The sauce is a dark Orange col­our with small flecks of white – small pieces of gar­lic – and red flecks of chilli sus­pen­ded within it. When tast­ing the sauce the first thing you taste is the lemon, which is not too strong but is defi­antly there. Fol­low­ing the lemon, there is a very power­ful gar­lic punch which then leaves with a slight heat at the top and back of the mouth and in the throat.

The sauce isn’t hot; just has a very pleas­antly warm­ing. The main fla­vour is gar­lic rather than chilli; the chilli is used as a com­ple­ment­ing fla­vour rather than the main attrac­tion. This sauce would be great with prawns or chicken. It could also be used in stir-fry or for dip­ping or spread­ing. Altern­at­ively, mix it with some salad cream or a dif­fer­ent but tasty thou­sand island dressing!

Ingredi­ents: Water, Gar­lic (19%), Red Chilli Puree (10%), Sugar, Lemon juice con­cen­trate (5%), Habanero Chilli Puree (pep­pers, salt, acetic acid), Salt, Corn­flour, Gar­lic Gran­ules, Col­our (paprika extract), sta­bil­iser (xanthan gum), Crushed chilli.

See­ing this it is obvi­ous where the fla­vours you can smell and taste are com­ing from! Great mixed into all kinds of food! I’m off camp­ing tomor­row for a week and this is accom­pa­ny­ing me to brighten up my baked beans!

The sauce con­tains no arti­fi­cial col­ours, fla­vours or pre­ser­vat­ives. It is suit­able for Veget­ari­ans, Vegans and coeli­acs and is Glu­ten free. It comes in a 290g bottle and is avail­able at ASDA for £1.00.

Fla­vour	(7/10)
Heat	(3/10)
Pack­aging	(7/10)
Value	(9/10)
Over­all	(8/10)

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By Darth Naga, August 5, 2010 7:23 pm

Chilli Pep­per Com­pany — Born to Burn

Right, its lit­er­ally only 2 days to go now till west dean and i am doing my best to get some reviews out there of sauces that are actu­ally going to be at the show! Today I bring you a sauce made by the amaz­ing Ger­ald fowler of the “Chilli Pep­per Com­pany” (CPC hence­forth) who is most fam­ous for bring­ing us “10 minute burn” last septem­ber and things just have’nt been the same for Ged since! The sauce i am review­ing today is one that Ged is labelling as his “hot­test non-extract” sauce, so as you can proab­ably ima­gine, I am MUCHOS excited to be given one of the first bottles to review!!

Ingredi­ents: Toma­toes, bhut jolokia 30%, vin­egar, sugar, mus­tard seeds, spices.

(Review bottle gen­er­ously sup­plied by www.chileseeds.co.uk)

There! now thats not alot of ingredi­ents at all, so I was fooled into think­ing this sauce may not be that hot simply because it did’nt have any extract in and the Jolokia con­tent is only 30%..as i soon found out, “only” 30% is clearly more than enough to make this reviewer sweat bul­lets and wish he’d died!!

“Born to Burn” as this sauce is known is one of the sauces that i believe Ged is launch­ing at West Dean as this one isn’t on his web­site yet and as such it’s not avail­able to the gen­eral pub­lic, so i thought that i HAD to give this a video review, just to see if it war­ran­ted the “ultre hot” label and to give you guys an idea of what to expect at West Dean this com­ing week­end! Now without fur­ther ado lets get on with the video!!

Soooooo there you have it, a tasty little sauce that I TOTALLY under­es­tim­ated and you guys and girls out there can con­sider that a les­son well learnt! If you want to buy “Born to burn” then you should get yourselves over to www.chileseeds.co.uk and grab a bottle at about £6 and you won’t be sorry you did! FAILING THAT! you could just bring your arse down to the “West Dean Chilli Fiesta” this week­end, meet Ged him­self and buy a bottle right from his stall, tell him Darth Naga sent you, bet­ter yet just grab me on the day and ask me to come with you to his stall! LOL!

Until next time my chilli padawanz, don’t under­es­tim­ate the power of the dark side of the sauce!

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

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By Darth Naga, August 4, 2010 2:00 pm

Spi­cymon­key — Ninja Mon­key Sauce

Okay people, here at Chile­foundry HQ we are gear­ing up for our annual work trip to the “West Dean Chilli Fiesta” which hap­pens to be the biggest chilli event of the year! So in light of that my next few reviews will be of sauces from people that are actu­ally going to be at west dean this year!

“Spi­cymon­key” is a com­pany foun­ded by Ian and Gemma based on two things..their love of all things spicy, and their love of prim­ates!! On their site they have pledged to donate 50p from every jar of their “Mon­key curry” powder to the http://www.intiwarayassi.org/ which is an animal sanc­tu­ary in the bolivian amazon rain forest and from Octo­ber 2007 to July 2009 they have man­aged to make £151 for the sanc­tu­ary, so please get on over to http://www.spicymonkey.co.uk/ and pur­chase a jar of that today to not only help the sanc­tu­ary, but to enjoy a damn good curry as well!!

Ingredi­ents: Onion, Avo­cado, Ginger, Rice Vin­egar, Lemon Juice, Soy Sauce, Water, Habanero, Naga Pep­per, Was­abi, Sugar, Salt, Sesame.

(Review jar kindly sup­plied by www.spicymonkey.co.uk)

Right where do i begin talk­ing about this AMAZING sauce? I guess i should start by point­ing out that “Ninja Mon­key” is but one sauce in a trio of three made by Ian and Gemma over at “Spi­cymon­key Towers” and those sauces are made to cater for those of you like me out there who prefer their sauce that comes with a free kick up the arse in the jar/bottle and these three are no dis­ap­point­ment to that fact! The jar alone is worth the ask­ing price on my opin­ion, a nice sized 190ml jar, emblazond with a nice bright label that is simple, but to the point.

A rather nasty look­ing brown mon­key stand­ing against a rising sun back­ground whilst hold­ing a big green chilli (i say its a chilli but it could be a japan­ese horseradish!) is enough to make any­one truly believe that this sauce will kick you in the nuts..HARD! Along with the afore­men­tioned evil ninja mon­key, there is also the name of the sauce in green and of course the usual stuff like ingredi­ents, web­site and actualy postal address too! Some­thing i did note that you don’t see all the time is a good list of 6 dif­fer­ent uses for this sauce, now i know alot of sauce makers put a couple of uses, but SIX??? now thats dedication!

I decided i’d had enough of this mon­key taunt­ing me and twis­ted off the lid, grabbing my spoon I dipped it in, not­ing the myriad of col­ours in a delight­fully chunky sauce as I swirled my spoon around and pulled out a big enough dol­lop that was sure to test my mettle against this so called “Ninja Mon­key”, hold­ing it up to my nose I could smell the ginger, wasabi,soy sauce and habanero’s that were surely going to make this exper­i­ence both pain­ful and pleas­ure­able at the same time, I bowed grace­fully (well as grace­fully as a fat bloke can!) and pro­ceeded to con­sume the sauce!

Imme­di­ately the amaz­ing fla­vour of ginger and haban­eros hit me, coupled with a hint of avo­cado and then the soy sauce and sesame..but it was the next part i feared most, i could taste the Naga creep­ing up on me, this Ninja mon­key was about to have its wicked way!! The back of my throat warmed up quite quickly fol­lowed by an INSANE burn on the tip of my tonuge and the roof of my mouth, and it kept going..not a stu­pidly over the top burn i might add but one that was enough to bring the sweat on!

#So there you have it, my tryst with “Ninja Mon­key” was over and my mouth is still cur­rently recov­er­ing as I write this review. It has such an amaz­ing fla­vour, the was­abi really does set it apart from alot of sauces out there and the naga heat just gives it that little edge! You can grab a jar of this awe­some stuff from www.spicymonkey.co.uk for a paltry £4.95 and while you are there be sure to grab a jar of the “Mon­key curry” as well, or fail­ing that just get yourselves along to the “West Dean Chilli Fiesta” this com­ing week­end (6th, 7th and 8th of August!) where you’ll be able to meet Ian and sample all of his lovely spicy good­ies, and if you do see him, tell him Darth Naga sent you!!

Until next time my chilli padawanz, may the sauce be with you!!

Fla­vour	(9/10)
Heat	(6/10)
Pack­aging	(6/10)
Value	(7/10)
Over­all	(8/10)

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