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ChiliPepperPete & The Chilli Pepper Company at the The Hot Pepper Awards 2010

Hot Juan — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:06:27 +0000

ChilliPepperPete and The Chilli Pepper Company both entered extreme sauces in the “The Hot Pepper Awards 2010” run by “The Hot Pepper” website/forum.

ChilliPepperPete - Dragons Blood

We are please to see then do so well in a USA competition.

EXTREME SAUCE

1st – Chillipepperpete – Dragons Blood Batch 13
2nd – The Chilli Pepper Company – Be Damned
3rd – Heatseekers Chilli/Streeteats – The Hell Raiser

EXTREME SAUCE WITH FRUIT

1st - Slow Death Sauces/Scorpion Chilli – Rest In Peace
2nd – The Chilli Pepper Company – 10 Minute Burn
3rd – Chillipepperpete – Satan’s Shit

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Chilefoundry Newsletter September 2009

Hot Juan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:06:10 +0000

A summary of articles from the Chilefoundry during September 2009, click the links to see the full stories.

Hot Headz & Scorchio Top 10 Products?—? September 2009 – Each month we look at the best selling products from some of the UK largest retailers, this gives us and you an idea of what is selling well (So what we need to review)

Chilli Seriously Strong Spreadable Cheese

Wessex Chilli Festival – Event Report – This is the first year for the Wessex Chilli Festival, which was held in the Cheese and Grain Hall in Frome, Somerset. Matt Simpson the Organiser from Simpsons Seeds had done an great job in getting a range of exhibitors to the event. This is best described as a small local event chilli event (I am sure they all start this way) and all the exhibitors I spoke to had an excellent time with a steady stream of interested customers.

Top 10 UK Chilli Web Sites — September 2009 – 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.

ChilliPepperPete Naga Tested at 85,540 Scoville Units higher that current world record holder – Warwick University has been testing the ChilliPepperPete Naga and it has recorded 1,086,844 Scoville Units (SHU), the current Guinness Book of Records holder is set at 1,001,304 SHU that’s 85,540 SHU lowers..

Blair Launches new 2am & 3am to celebrate 20th Anniversary – The new 2am & 3am Reserves are 20% hotter and in bottles 50% larger than the previous versions originally launched in the mid-1990’s.

Do you make a winning Hot Sauce? – Do you think you can make a winning Hot Sauce,Chutney or even a Chilli Jam, then why not enter you favourite recipe into The Fire Foods – Amateur Scoville Awards 2009 and see how it stands up against the rest.

Cheyenne F1

Chilli Variety – Cheyenne F1 – The Cheyenne F1 is part of the Capsicum Annuum Spices of chillies, it is a compact, bushy, early ripening variety, which grows to about 45cm high.

Blair’s Habanero Crisps back in stock at Hot-Headz! – One of my favourite snacks Blair’s Habanero Crisps is back in stock at Hot-Headz, I have missed these over the past few months, so before they go missing again, try some.

“10 Minute Burn” Hot Sauce Banned from The Fiery Foods Show – Gerald from The Chilli Pepper Company new sauce “10 Minute Burn” was removed from sale at Fiery Foods Show after a number of customers who tried it suffered what was described as “an Episode” and ended up rolling around on the grass in pain.

Video’s Chilli Eating Contest – Fiery Foods 2009 – Video’s Chilli Eating Contest – Fiery Foods 2009 – Thanks to Gabys Hot Stuff for posting these on Youtube

Chilli Seriously Strong Spreadable Cheese – The spread is a light yellow colour with flecks of pepper; it has the texture is thick but spreadable. There is a definite taste of Cheddar with some mild chilli warmth, there is little chilli flavour.

Wessex Chilli Festival 27th Sept at the Cheese and Grain Hall in Frome – Matt Simpson from Simpsons Seeds has started his own Chilli Festival, this will be it’s first year, it is being held in the Cheese and Grain Hall in Frome on the 27th Sepetember.

Crazy Charley – Jalapeno Heaven Pouring Sauce – I love this sauce, we used to sell lots of it but only once we could get customers to taste it. It is difficult to describe it flavour, just imagine Jalapeno’s mixed with Tomato sauce and Worcester sauce and you have got it.

The Chilli Company – Mendlesham, Suffolk – Created by Adrian and Denise Nuttall who started growing and making sauces in 2001 The Chilli Company has grown over the years and in 2006 they moved to larger premises in Mendlesham and opened the Chilli Farm.

Gareth Boughtwood Wins Fiery Foods Chilli Eating Contest- Nine contestants put their bodies to the test to eat the World’s Hottest Chillies at the Fiery Foods Festival in Victoria Gardens, Brighton.

The Chilli Garden - Scotch Bonnet Sauce

The Chilli Garden – Scotch Bonnet Sauce – The sauce tastes salty with a hot with a fruity tang from the Scotch Bonnet it is a typical Louisiana style sauce, excellent as part of a dressing or a condiment with roast potatoes.

Chilli Art by Rachel McCullock – Rachel has had her work published in Calendars and on Christmas Cards and has exhibited her work around the UK, she started painting for pleasure and has rapidly generated a lot of interest in her work with its bold, vibrant and energetic paintings.
She does not just paint Chillies, but her paintings include wildlife to majestic coastal scenes as well as representational images and textural abstracts.

Video Interview with Sarah Wain at West Dean 2009 – Sarah’s horticultural career began in Australia where she trained for three years and obtained a Diploma in Horticultural Science at Burnley Horticultural College, Melbourne.

Darth Naga Video Interview with Gerald Fowler – The Chilli Pepper Company – The Chilli Pepper Company’s root go back about 10 Years, When Gerald grew chillies and harvesting the seeds, he’d passed these on to friends and family, this grew by word of mouth, now they even supply West Dean and Kew Gardens. The seeds are now imports, as they use all the chillies they grow in their own sauces and powders.

Bar King Nuts – Chihuahua Chilli Nuts – The blurb says “Nuts with more bite that bark” while the nuts taste great, a good mixture of Peanuts, Cashews and Almonds, the coating has very little bite, they need a good dose more Chipotle to be at all interesting, these are very mild and it is hard to find the smoked Chipotle flavour.

ChilliPepperPete – Dragons Blood Video Review – The label on this bottle of “Dragons Blood” is colourful and has the new “chillipepperpete” branding and logo all over it, it has the now famous picture of a dragon against a nice green and red background, the label also claims this to be “an extreme heat product” and given that this sauce has come from the award winning “Chillipepperpete” i don’t doubt the claim for one second!

ChilliPepperPete’s – Red Headhunter Sauce – I will however say that i had the awesome chance to meet the gentlemen at the recent West Dean Chilli Fiesta and it was a very good experience, Hot Juan introduced me to Pete who was happy to do a video interview for the ‘foundry and we had a nice chat about all things hot. When you first meet him he kinder reminds you of a hippy dude who just loves chile’s and everything to do with them, you’ll be able to see the interview here at the ChileFoundry in time, but for now let’s get on with the sauce!!

Cottage Delight- Habanero Chilli Steak Sauce – The sauce I bring to you all today is made by a company that was conceived way back in 1974 by a man named Nigel cope, the “Cottage Delight” brand was first placed on their popular fudge range, and nowadays thirty odd years down the line they have over 700 products in their range a lot of which are made in house.

Beelzebubs Breath – Hell and Back – Hot Chilli Sauces – Ahhh another day means another quality review for the Chilefoundry!! and today I’m reviewing a sauce made from my favourite pepper, the Naga Jolokia of course! This sauce comes to us from a company based here in the UK and known to the world as “Hell and back – Hot chilli sauces”, the company was started by two brothers a while back who decided to build a website where you could buy the hottest and most flavoursome of both UK and US hot sauces, mustards and other things, therefore in essence creating a one stop shop for all things hot!!

Joanna Plumb’s – Cheesy Chilli Cauliflower Soup – Joanna Plumb from Edible Ornamentals has sent us a recipe for a Cauliflower Soup that sounds very interesting and should be quick and simple to make, it uses their Pure Heat Chilli Sauce, which is you don’t have it can be substituted with some fresh chillies.

ChilliPepperPete’s – Satan’s Shit Video Review – I’ve said all the prayers necessary..lined my stomach with bread and milk..left all my worldly possessions to Hot Juan…now it’s time to man up and try this stuff..

Chilliqueen - Extra Hot Chilli Jelly

Chilliqueen – Relaunched with New Products and Branding – Chilliqueen is being relaunched with a new design of packaging and a new range of products with designs from famous Scottish illustrator, Clare Mackie.

How HOT can you take it? – Now prove it – Leading up to the Firey Food Event in Brighton the organisers are running a number of special event to find a chilli eating champion.

Video Interview – Stuart McAllister from Hot-Headz – At West Dean this year, Darth and Mrs Naga visited a few of the well know names and made a number of short video interviews, This one is with Stuart McAllister of Hot-Headz AKA Dr Hotz.

National Chilli Awards 2009 – the finals! – The National Chilli Awards is taking place at the Fiery Foods UK Event in Brighton on the 19th September. When you go to the event you get a voting slip so you can help decide which products are getting into the final, once you votes are counted the top three from each category are then put forward to the judges who select a winner.

Jamaican Jerk Paste Recipe – There is a unique taste to Jamaican BBQ, and that comes from the Jerk Seasoning. I developed this from a dry powder recipe I found a long time ago, like most recipes they develop over time, I have added some cloves to my version, but you could leave this out if you wanted, there are also a number of optional ingredients you could add dependent on your tastes.

The Fire Foods – Amateur Scoville Awards 2009 – This years Amateur Scovile awards will take place at the Old Courthouse pub in Cove, Farnborough, Hampshire. GU14 0EU. on October 17th at 20:00.

Zhoug / Zhoog or Zhug – The Yemen Green Chilli Sauce – Zhoug is a green chilli sauce from the Yemen where they believe that eating zhoug daily keeps away illness and strengthens the heart (Latest medical evidence probably support that).

Darth Naga to be Judge at National Chilli Awards 2009 – Our very own Darth Naga is going to be Judge at the National Chilli Awards 2009, which are part of the Firey Foods Show in Brighton. Judging will take place at the Old Steine Fiery Foods in September from 6pm on the Saturday. You are more than welcome to stay and watch the judges try all the finalists..There should be tears!!

Chile Pepper Company – Be Damned Extreme Chilli Sauce – the sauce i have here is the newest sauce to come from the Chile Pepper Company, and its known as “Be Damned” and by crikey judging from the label and colour of the contents alone I will be!!! The bottle itself sports a very colourful and glossy label with a picture of Beelzebub himself on it, it also has the CPC name and website address and “Handmade in Cumbria” proudly emblazoned on the front!

Edible Ornamentals becomes a regional Food Hero – Edible Ornamentals, Shawn and Joanna Plumb have been voted as regional finalists in the Local Food Heroes competition staged by Good Food cookery show Market Kitchen. Based in Chawston they have been selected by a panel of expert judges as one of the top three food providers in the Anglian region and will be featured in the next series of the show, due to be broadcast in November.

Levi Roots – Reggae Reggae Sauce – The sauce I’m tasting today comes all the way from Jamaica, and from a man by the name of Levi Roots. His legacy started with his grandmother over 35 years ago, where she was making the sauce with “secret” herbs and spices, she handed the recipe down to him and in 1991 he took the sauce to the Notting Hill carnival where it became so popular that its now an annual fixture!

Chillies could be used to prevent & treat diabetes and cardiovascular disease – At the UTAS School of Human Life Sciences a research team is investigating the biological activity of the two active ingredients of chillies – capsaicin and dihydrocapsaicin.

Fire Foods

Fire Foods – Chilli Innovation – Nick Woods (Woody to his friends) started Fire Foods after being give some chilli plants, soon he was hooked on the heat and disappointed in the locally available products he started to make his own, based in Grantham Lincolnshire, the business uses only the finest ingredients fresh ingredients.

ChileFoundry Traffic Report – August 2009 >17,000 Pages – We have been growing very quickly since we started the blog, in August we served over 16,000 pages a large jump on the month before during which we served 6000+ pages and over 2000 the month before.

Chilli Festival Benington Lordship 2009 – Who knew chillies were so popular? - The 4th annual Chilli Festival in the picturesque village of Benington took place on the 30th and the 31st of August this year.

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Darth Naga Video Interview with Gerald Fowler – The Chilli Pepper Company

Hot Juan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:44:43 +0000

The Chilli Pepper Company’s root go back about 10 Years, When Gerald grew chillies and harvesting the seeds, he’d passed these on to friends and family, this grew by word of mouth, now they even supply West Dean and Kew Gardens. The seeds are now imports, as they use all the chillies they grow in their own sauces and powders.

This is Geralds 4th Year at West Dean

Geralds favourite sauce is his own Dragons Breath, from other manufacturers he recommends Who Dares Burns.

Their current flag ship product is “Be Damned”, (see review) which was developed by Gerald as his entry in to the market for extreme hot sauces in competition with the likes of Dragons Blood, Satan’s Blood, Blair’s Sudden Death, Blair’s 3am, Naga Snake Bite, Cobra Juice, Pure Venom Reserve!

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Chile Pepper Company – Be Damned Extreme Chilli Sauce

Darth Naga — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:01:04 +0000

The Chilli Pepper Company - Be Damned

So here we are, it’s Sunday and I’m relaxing, I’ve just had a bath and now i think its the perfect time to do a review, and today I’m reviewing a sauce from the amazing “Chile Pepper Company“. Originally known as the Chile Seed Company (and still is!) but is becoming more popular now for its amazing range of hot sauces, the company was started back in ’99 by Gerald Fowler and has grown on from just doing the seeds, to doing hot sauces and other scorching products, I won’t go into too much detail as Hot Juan himself did a nice piece on them earlier this month on the 13th!

So the sauce i have here is the newest sauce to come from the Chile Pepper Company, and its known as “Be Damned” and by crikey judging from the label and colour of the contents alone I will be!!! The bottle itself sports a very colourful and glossy label with a picture of Beelzebub himself on it, it also has the Chile Pepper Company name and website address and “Handmade in Cumbria” proudly emblazoned on the front!

It comes in a 140ml bottle and the sauce inside is a beautiful rich red colour with black speckles ( these black speckles seem to be more common in cooked sauces) and the label on the back reads: “BEWARE Once eaten this will hurt”, it also has the list of ingredients.

Ingredients:
Sweet peppers, Water, Vinegar, Onions, Apples, Sugar, Salt, Scotch Bonnets, Coriander, Thyme, Peppercorns, 7.3 million extract, 15 million pure capsaicin.

Okay, now note that this sauce contains TWO lots of extract, 7.3mil SHU extract and 15 Million SHU pure capsaicin crystal, so I was expecting this to be stupidly hot and possibly kill me (Hot Juan, i leave you my hot sauce collection! lol), I opened the bottle and did my usual sniff test to see what flavours i could detect before tasting the stuff.

I could immediately spell the peppers, vinegar, extract and onions (extract has a distinct smell and taste that is unmistakable to most seasoned Chile Headz) and I was pleasantly surprised that the extract smell was not overpowering, but what of the taste? I took out my tasting spoon and gingerly poured some out for consumption…

Upon placing the laden spoon into my mouth and eating the sauce the first thing that hit me was the flavour of the peppercorns and scotch bonnets, the heat then kicked in MASSIVELY! I am pleased to report that the extract flavour isn’t anywhere near as noticeable as others on the market and it has a great handmade quality to it, slightly chunky as well! At first the heat wasn’t too bad so I took a second spoonful and my eyes, nose and face stared running, it was at this point i realised this is a sauce where the heat builds and is certainly not for beginners!

I would Say that this sauce is very good value for money at £8.50 a bottle it is certainly up there with the greatest of ultra hot sauces but without the metallic aftertaste of the extract, it does however have a nice long burn factor that will have you sweating for a while and I would certainly buy a bottle today if i did not already have one!!

I hope you enjoyed another review of another ultra hot sauce, i honestly think i may have a screw loose somewhere inside my brain to be tasting all this stupidly hot stuff for you folks out there to read about, a lot of people think I’m mad, but then they haven’t tasted some of the amazing sauces that I have, and “Be Damned” is no exception to this rule!! May the sauce be with you!!

You can order Be Damned online at www.chileseeds.co.uk

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The Chilli Pepper Company (AKA The Chile Seed Company)

Hot Juan — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:01:31 +0000

Gerald Fowler - The Chilli pepper Company

The Chilli Pepper Company is a small family business founded by Gerald Fowler, from their base in Cumbria they make and sell a ever increasing range of products, starting with Chilli Seeds, they have expanded to Hot Sauces (Some we have already reviewed), Whole and Powdered chillies, Chilli Chocolate as well as Tomato and vegetable seeds.

They have some notable customers:-

They have supplied River Cottage with Chilli seeds and can supply the River Cottage Recommended Chilli Pepper Seed Collection (15 Hungarian Hot Wax seeds, 15 Jalapeno seeds, 15 Poblano seeds, 10 Apache seeds)
Supplied Canadian Aid workers with 25Kg of Chilli seeds to as part of an Afghanistan Cash crop program.
Supplied Levi Roots the famous Dragons Den Hot Chili Sauce Maker with scotch bonnet for new TV Show
Their Chilli Chocolate has won accolade from Tom Parker-Bowles Food Writer and well know Chilli-head.

We have already taste tested some of their sauces here at ChileFoundry HQ and soon will have a review of Be Damned, one of the hottest sauces make in the UK which includes with both 7.3 million extract, and 15 million pure capsaicin in the ingredients list.

Their range of products includes some name to conjure with including:- Chilli Con Carne Recipe, Naga Salt Shaker, Chipotle Grill Seasoning, Smoked Serrano Powder, Green Tabasco Chilli Powder, Red Tabasco Chilli Powder, Flamin’ Peppercorns, Satan’s Ashes, Devils Penis, Zahtar (Za’atar) Powder, Hot Italian Spice, Tandoori Curry Spice Mix, Chilli Headz Survival Kit, Cajun Blackened Seasoning, Pure Capsaicin Powder, Kirmizi Biber, Habañero Chilli Flakes, Habañero Hot Mix, De Arbol Chilli Powder, New Mexico Chilli Powder, Guajillo Chilli Powder, Ancho Chilli Powder, Chipotle Chilli Powder, Hot and Spicy Sea Salt, Hot and Spicy Lo Salt, Pasilla Negro Chilli Powder, Cayenne Pepper Chilli Powder, (Hot) Smoked Paprika Chilli Powder, Sweet Smoked Paprika Chilli Powder, Holy Trinity Chilli Powder, Pure Capsaicin, Chilli Chocolate Spread, Chilli Honey, Fell Walker Chilli Sauce, Be Damned Chilli Sauce, Naga Achar Fist Of Fire Pickle, Naga Mama Chilli Sauce, Kiss The devil- Chilli Fire Spray, Pure Capsaicin Powder Red Hot Coriander Chilli Pickle, The Beast Limited Edition Hot Sauce, Trinidad Scorpion Chutney, Trinidad Scorpion Extreme Chilli Sauce, Witches Brew Chilli Sauce,

And a massive range of chilli Seeds:- Achard, Aji Colorado, Aji Crystal, Aji Golden, Aji Habanero, Aji Norteno, Cielo Rojo Pequin, Aji Panca, Alba, Albufeira, Ali Hot Chilli Pepper, Amazon Chile Roma, Anaheim, Ancho Poblano, Antillais Caribbean, Antillais Hot, AOC Piment d’ Espelette Basque Chilli Peppers, Apache, Assam Bhut Jolokia, Aurora, Balloon Chilli Peppers, Bassotto, Belpicen, Big Sun, Birds Eye Chilli Seeds, Black Cuban, Black Hungarian, Black Pearl, Bonda Ma Jacque, Border, Brasileiro, Brazilian Starfish, Bulgarian Carrot, Burkina Yellow Habanero, Candlelight, Caribbean Red Hot, Cayenna, Cayenne, Cayenne Long Slim, Cedrino, Charlestown Hot, Chenzo Hot Chilli Peppers, Cheyenne Chilli Seeds, Chi-Chien, Chile de Arbol, Chile de Onza, Chilli De Banco, Chiltepin, Chinese Pot Chilli, Chocolate Bhut Jolokia, Chocolate Habanero, Chupetinho, Clavo, Congo Black, CPI Bhut Jolokia, Crest, Criolla Sella, Cyklon, Datil, Demon Red, Early Jalapeno, Eclipse, Espanola, Esplendor, Etna, Fantasia, Far Too Hot Dropper, Fatalii, Filius, Firecracker Pequin, Fresno, Friar’s Hat, Bishops Crown, Funky, Gambia Red, Georgia Flame, Goat Horn, Golden Nugget Chilli, Guajillo, Guarda Cielo, Habanero Long Hot, Habanero Paper Lantern, Hinkelhatz, Hinklehatz Yellow, Hot Cherry, Hot Fish, Hot Lemon, Hot Lime Pickle, Hot Portugal, Hot Purrira, Hot Vegetarien, Hungarian Hot, Indian PC-1 , Naga Jolokia, Jalapeno, Jamaican Hot Red, Jamaican Red Mushroom, Jamy Chilli , Joe E Parker, Joe’s Long Pepper, Karl 1, Khorika Jolokia, , Lemon Drop, Marbles, Maule’s Red Hot Chilli Pepper, Maya Pimento, Mexiquin, Mohawk, Mulato Isleno, Mustard Habanero, Naga Morich Chilli Seeds, Naga Volcanic Honey Mustard, Nimbu Chatni, Nosegay, NuMex Bailey Piquin, NuMex Big Jim, NuMex Centennial, NuMex Christmas Day, NuMex Halloween, NuMex Mirasol, NuMex Pinata, NuMex St. Patrick’s Day, NuMex Suave Orange, NuMex Sunflare, NuMex Sunrise, Numex Twilight, NuMex Valentine Day, Orange Habanero, Orange Thai Chilli Pepper Seeds, Ordano, Orozco, Pasilla Bajio, Pasilla Negro, Peach Habanero, Peruviano Arancio, Peter Pepper RED, Peter Pepper YELLOW, Pico de Pajaro, pimientos de padron, Pinocchio’s Nose, Poinsettia, Prairie Fire, Pulla, Purple Serrano, Purple Tiger, Pusa Jwala, Pyramid Chilli, Red Cherry Small, Red Habanero, Red Scotch Bonnet, Redskin, Ring of Fire, River Cottage Chilli Seeds, Rocoto / Manzano Orange, Rocoto Yellow, Romanian Giallo, Safi Scotch Bonnet, Scotch Bonnet Chilli Pepper seeds, Sahara, Santa Fe Grande, Santaka, Serrano, Serrano Tampiqueño, Smokin’ Chilli Sauce, Spagna, Spicy Chilli Jam, Stromboli, SUNNY, Sunset, Super Hot Thai, Sweet Chocolate Pepper, Tabasco, Takanotsume Chilli Seed, Thai Denchai Chilli Seeds, Thai Dragon, Thai Hot, Thai Sun, Thailand, Tobago chilli pepper, Tomato Chilli Relish, Tongues of Fire Chilli, Trinidad Congo, Trinidad Scorpion, Variegata, Wasabi Chilli Mustard, Wenks Yellow Hots, White Habanero, Yellow Mushroom, Yellow Scotch Bonnet, Zaino.

As you can see Gerald does not do things by halves, for even more information and to order online visit www.chileseeds.co.uk.

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