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Chilefoundry Newsletter November 2009

Hot Juan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:16:42 +0000

A summary of articles from the Chile foundry during November 2009, click the links to see the full stories.

Lizzi’s Chilli and Apricot Blondies – My Daughter Lizzi is a very good cook, she has a light hand with baking, I asked her to come up with a recipe for today, she said “I will make you something special!” and she did!

Eswatini Swazi Kitchen - kumquat Atchar

Eswatini Swazi Kitchen – Kumquat Atchar – The product I am reviewing today comes from a company known as “Just trading Scotland” who sell fair trade products here in the uk on behalf of people from Africa, asia and latin america, one of the groups that they represent is known as “Eswatini Swazi Kitchen” and its that particular group that have made the product I am reviewing today.

What is Atchar? – Atchar is a spicey chutney found in Indian and South African food, It is often made from mangoes and peppers, but can also include vegetables such as Carrots, onions and cabbage. It is served as a condiment with curry.

Dr. Burnorium’s Hot Sauce Emporium – Dr. Burnorium’s Hot Sauce Emporium is a retailer based at the St Nicholas Market in Bristol, they have an excellent online store. If you are near Bristol visit them and let us know what you think?

Manda African Chilli Sauce – Review – Wow! another sauce that contains all natural ingredients, I seem to be getting alot of these lately, not that i’m complaining mind you, nothing better than an all natural fresh tasting hotsauce! “Manda African Chilli Sauce (extra hot)” comes in a bottle that is more similar to non-mainstream hotsauce’s than the supermarket brands it shares a shelf with in ASDA.

The Hot Pepper Awards

ChilliPepperPete – The Hot Pepper Awards 2009 – ChilliPepperPete has been winning awards again. This time at “The Hot Pepper Awards 2009″ they won both 2nd and 3rd place in the Extreme Products section for Dragons Blood Batch 12 and Satan’s Shit.

Lingham’s Ginger Garlic Chilli Sauce – It is odd but this is the first time I have tasted a Lingham’s sauce, I have seen them about for years, but always passed them by, expecting it to a cheap, sweet concoction, with little depth of flavour, maybe I have become a sauce snob!

ChilliPepperPete’s – Chicken Xacuti (Shakuti) – This recipe comes from ChilliPepperPete, it is a traditional Goan Recipe. Goa is located along India’s west coast along the Arabian Sea and was part of Pete’s travels around India. Chicken Xacuti (pronounced Shakuti) has been described and Chicken in coconut gravy.

Blairs's Death Rain Crisps

Blair’s Death Rain – New UK Flavours – I love crisps (US Translation Chips) a few years ago we make our own Hot-Juan Brand Crisps so I know how hard it is to make a new flavour and to get it consistant, I have always loved Blair’s Death Rain Habanero crisp, every packet is hot and crunchy, and his other flavours Chipotle and Cajun are also excellent, each with there own unique flavour.

Christmas Rumours – Santa’s Shit – We hear rumours that ChilliPepperPete is making a Christmas special – Santa’s Shit, we will let you know more as soon as we taste it!

ChilliPepperPete’s – Vindalho Recipe – One of my favourites has always been the Vindalho. And then I had it in Goa 20 odd years ago cooked by our landlady and it was a totally different experience. I got her to write down her recipe and I am copying it from a tatty Indian school book full of recipes. I will move on to other countries from now but as I said earlier I have had a Goan food fixation for 20 years. We are now selling Goan curry blends in the shop that are made in Goa and are excellent. – “Pete Seymour AKA ChilliPepperPete”

Chilli Variety - Krakatoa F1

Chilli Variety??–??Krakatoa F1 – A medium sized upright plant of the Capsicum annuum Species.

Lowcost Home Smoked Chillies – Using the ProQ Smoke Generator – Hot smoke or cold smoke, that is the question. The simple answer is that both have a place in the food chain, but when it comes to chillies, my hat is definitely in the cold camp.

Christmas Hamper – The Chilli Pepper Company – The Chilli Pepper Company has launched a range of Christmas gift hampers, with something for everybody.

Pain is good – Batch #114 Jamaican Pineapple Salsa – I did not expect to like this salsa, I don’t normally go for anything with pineapple in it, I even pick it off pizza if I have to, but this was an exception, I even enjoyed finding the tidbits of pineapple.

Hot-Headz – Mad Dog college challenge – A First Aid co-ordinator from the Samuel Whitbread Community College, Beds. telephoned Hot-Headz! on Wednesday (11/11/09) to seek assurance that pupils would be OK after a student took a bottle of Mad Dog 357 Collector’s Edition to college and challenged his peers to try some.

Volcano Chilli – Lincoln Central Market – Volcano Chilli is a new venture for Chris and Rosie Jagger and he has started it in Lincoln’s Central Market just a few weeks ago.

Scorch

South Devon Chilli Farm New Online Community, Forum and Blog – The South Devon Chilli Farm has been redeveloping its web site and has added a new Community, Forum and a Blog .

The Chilli Pepper Company – Witches Brew Review – The bottle itself is typical of the CPC range and comes with a high gloss label on the front, complete with title and a strange grey looking witch stirring a cauldron! I do enjoy seeing Ged’s new labels when they come out as they are always fun to see, the sauce inside this bottle is a lovely red colour with flecks of black, bits of pepper flesh and the occasional seed floating about in the liquid!

ChilliPepperPete’s?—?Mole Poblano – Mole Poblano is a festive meal hailing from Oaxaca in Mexico. Oaxacan food is the consistently the best quisine in Mexico. Mexicans use a lot of mild chillis up to the jalapeno/chipotle heat but outside of the yucatan its unusual to find anything hotter. The chillis are used for flavour as well as heat and this recipe could be many hundreds of years old and in one form or another has come down from pre conquistdador times. Its very involved but can be cheated with our ready potted mole poblano which is a simplified version of this recipe. Its a great leftover turkey recipe for boxing day. – “Pete Seymour AKA ChilliPepperPete”

Cocaine and Capsaicin – a lethal mix? – A report in the New Scientist reports that Scientists may have found a link between some deaths from Pepper Sprays and Cocaine addiction.

South Devon Chilli Farm – Mild Habanero Chilli Chutney – On opening the jar there is a very pleasant fruity smell, which is not let down by the flavours from the apples and sultanas, I am very pleased to see the use of cider vinegar in this kind of high quality, it lets the flavours develop, without it needing to be matured.

Cajohns Gourmet – Scorch Review – The sauce comes from “Cajohns Gourmet” and as you might remember I reviewed their “Vicious viper” back in june and was’nt impressed mainly because the product had ALOT of heat but a not so nice flavour to it, so due to this I am a little apprehensive of this current sauce, but nonetheless lets continue!

South Devon Chilli Farm – Rapeseed Chilli Oil – The South Devon Chilli Farm has been working with The Seed Co, they have taken there cold pressed Rapeseed oil and steeped it with a blend of hot and fruity dried chilles for a month or two.

Chilli Variety???–???Yellow Bhut Jolokia – Most of our readers will already know the Bhut Jolokia is the current Guinness Book of World Records record holder as the world hottest chilli with a Scoville heat rating of 1,001,304 SHU’s, but not many will have heard of the Yellow Bhut Jolokia.

The Cornish Chilli Company – Manufacturers of Chilli Sauces using as many local ingredients as possible, they have an interesting range of products including an unusual dessert sauce.

Nitro Naga?—?Naga Jolokia Chilli Jam

Nitro Naga – Naga Jolokia Chilli Jam Review – This jam comes form the one and only “Chillichutneyman” a lovely gentleman by the name of Bryn, and someone i have chatted with a few times before, the “Nitro Naga” range being one he makes for Karl and co at www.scorchio.co.uk, and as such this jam is’nt like any other, it contains my FAVOURITE chilli which also happens to be the hottest chilli in the world to date, so without any more jabbering on, lets begin!

Hot-Headz Goes Christmas Crackers! – Order over £30.00 worth of products before December 20th 2009 and receive a superb quality Hot Sauce Gift Pack worth £12.99 absolutely Free!

Chilli Variety????–????Chocolate Bhut Jolokia – The Chocolate Bhut Jolokia is a variant of the Bhut Jolokia, Frontal Agritech have selected the chocolate bhut in successive generations to give a pure variety. The chilli has a pungency level similar to the red Bhut Jolokia.

Ol' Clooties Sauce

The Chilli Garden – Ol’ Clooties Sauce Review – There are not many sauces that look this colour, with the light behind it, it is almost luminescent orange, this is not achieved with artificial colours but is all natural made with Scotch Bonnet and Caribbean Red Habanero’s chillies grown by The Chilli garden in Hampshire.

Bargin time save £1.96 on Cajohns Vicious Viper – We have just noticed that Hot-Headz has a special offer on Vicious Viper, a sauce that Darth Naga reviewed back in early July. The sauce is normally £6.95, but is on offer at only £4.99 saving £1.96 per bottle.

Top 10 UK Chilli Web Sites — November 2009 (New #1 Site) – We have a new Number 1 site. Scorchio who have been buring up our chart are now the number 1 chilli web site in the UK, knocking Chillis Galore from the top spot for the first time.

Mr Vikki Hot Coriander Sauce Review – Ahh i’ve just had a long weekend off and now its tuesday and back to work, the sauce i’m reviewing today comes from a new favourite sauce maker here at the Chilefoundry, a little northern chap by the name of Adam Marks, I am of course talking about “Mr Vikki” and the amazing sauces, chutneys and pickles he produces.

School Chilli Challenage for Children In Need – Todmorden School held a seven-a-side chilli eating contest, seven members of staff and seven six formers muched chilles to see who could eat the most. The Final winner was teacher Mike Smith who ate 11 chillies.

TABASCO® brand Habanero Sauce – The aroma from the bottle is one more of fresh fruits, namely mango as opposed to habanero, the smell is deceiving though and you’ll realise that the moment you try this one, the McIlhenny’s mean business.

UK Chilli Market On Twitter – Apart from us who else should you be following on twitter..

Hot Headz & Scorchio Top 10 Products – November 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)

Creamy Chicken Curry (Milk and Dairy free) – My wife is lactose intolerant and therefore has a problem with many Indian menu’s as they use ghee and yoghurt in a lot of their recipes. So I created this recipe to create a creamy mild curry we can both enjoy.

Free P&P for your Christmas orders from ChilliPepperPete – Orders place on-line between the 1st and the 15th of December will get free P&P from ChilliPepperPete as part of there Christmas promotions

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Volcano Chilli – Lincoln Central Market

Hot Juan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:34:20 +0000

Volcano Chilli

Volcano Chilli is a new venture for Chris and Rosie Jagger and he has started it in Lincoln’s Central Market just a few weeks ago.

From there stall they sell an impressive range of chilli products including fresh chillies – Naga, Scotch Bonnet and Ring of Fire when in season, and an extensive range of sauces from the mild, Bee Sting and Smokin’ Dragon, to the hot Dave’s Ghost Pepper, Black Widow No Survivors and Hot-Headz 2nd Assault through to the extreme Blair’s 2am and 3am and Dave’s 2009 reserve.

For those of us who like to snack, they also stock the Blair’s Death Rain Crisps, the Ass Kickin range of snacks and Dave’s Gourmet Popcorn as well as Chilli Chocolate and fudge.

They are working with the local Environmental Health office so they can get a licence to make their own range of products; Chris is very keen to put flavour over heat to produce a real gourmet range of local produce.

So if you are going anywhere near Lincoln, please visit them or you can visit their web site www.volcanochilli.com or follow them on twitter http://twitter.com/VolcanoChilli .

Note: Chris has recently published this first article for the ChileFoundry about home smoking chillies using a ProQ Smoke Generator.

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Blair Launches new 2am & 3am to celebrate 20th Anniversary

Hot Juan — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:25:10 +0000

LIMITED EDITION PRE-PRODUCTION SETS of 2am and 3am RESERVES

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

There are 100 sets on offer at $200 per set of which Blair is giving $100 direct to the charity he supports Smile Train (www.smiletrain.org), The hand-crafted bottles are adorned in Italian resin making each bottle unique, the bottles are individually numbered and signed by Blair.

Unnumbered and unsigned bottles retail for $65 for the pair, but we suspect the numbered version will start changing hands on eBay at a good premium in the next few years

For more information visit http://www.extremefood.com

You can still find the original 2am & 3am Reserves at www.hot-headz.com and www.scorchio.co.uk

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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!