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By Hot Juan, July 29, 2010 9:20 am

This month we have added the UK pos­i­tion to Top UK Chilli Web sites, the ori­ginal aim of the chart was to show how well UK based sites did in the rest of the world, now you can see with a minor excep­tion of the #1 site Chil­lis Galore, the pos­i­tions are also reflec­ted in their UK position.

This is based on data from Alexa (data recorded on 27/07/10)

NOTE: We missed out dryriverchillies.co.uk this month by mis­take, they have a score of approx­im­ate 1,500,000

We are cur­rently log­ging the stat­ist­ics for 30+ 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.

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By Hot Juan, June 27, 2010 1:47 pm

We have made to our highest place for a while into 4th place behind the 3 farm sites, oth­er­wise very little move­ment in the top 10 this month.

Just out­side the TOP 10 this month is the Hot Sauce Emporium at 2,186,804 place world­wide and Funky Pep­per at 2,579,300.

This is based on data from Alexa (data recorded on 27/06/10)

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By Hot Juan, June 2, 2010 4:54 pm

Lots of art­icles last month, includ­ing prob­ably the worlds hot­test curry, and some new recipes and reviews.

The Chilli Garden

The Chilli Garden — Organic Hamp­shire Chil­lies — Based in a wooded vale on the Surrey/Hampshire bor­der The Chilli Garden seven acre’s are farmed by three gen­er­a­tions of the same fam­ily. Between them Father, Daugh­ter and Son-in-law; Peter, Alison and Mik, have wealth of exper­i­ence in farm­ing, food pro­duc­tion and design enabling them to make everything on the farm themselves.

Wahaca Look­ing for Chilli Expert — Wahaca, the Thomas­ina Miers chain of MLots of review and new preoduct­sex­ican res­taur­ants is look­ing for a chilli expert to help them cre­ate a show­case for the joys of grow­ing chil­lies, from how to plant, pol­lin­a­tion and harvesting.

Darth Naga Reviews:- Mr Vikki’s Hot Lime Pickle — Well, the elec­tions are upon us and I find its quite easy to get bogged down in polit­ical debates and other non­sense so I decided to take myself away from it all for a moment and write a review on one of “Mr Vikki’s” amaz­ing products! Mr Vikki has had a couple of reviews on this site so far and I am sure that as long as he keeps mak­ing qual­ity chilli products then we’ll keep on review­ing them!

The Chile­Foundry Forum Exper­i­ment — We have been look­ing at open­ing a user forum for the past 6 months, the object of the forum is our users to dis­cuss products and sup­pli­ers, post recipes etc etc.

Men pur­chase chilli four times more than women? — Men pur­chase chilli four times more than women reports AUSVEG as part of Australia’s Veget­able Industry Devel­op­ment Pro­gram, I guess that is comes has no real sur­prise, it seem to be mostly men I deal with when report­ing for this blog.

Chilli Pantry — Qual­ity Mex­ican Chil­lies in the UK — A new retailer for 2010 is the Chilli Pantry, set up by Gina Porras-Parral to sell a range of premium qual­ity Mex­ican ingredi­ents at afford­able prices, based in Brim­ing­ham web site cur­rently sell a range of authen­tic mex­ican dried chillies.

The Chilli Fact­ory — Fiery Frill­neck Hiss

The Chilli Fact­ory – Fiery Frill­neck Hiss — Hot Smokey Chilli Tomato Sauce — This sauces comes all the way from Aus­tralia and has won a num­ber of awards in its home coun­try includ­ing 1st prize for Best Hot Sauce Tomato in the Aus­tralian Fiery Food Awards in August 2004 as well as a hand­ful of 2nd and 3rd places in other events.

Good Eats — The Big Chili Recipe — I came across these video’s on You-Tube, and it seems like an excel­lent recipe, so we decided to col­lec­ted the list of ingredi­ents and the lis­ted some places you can find them here in the UK.

Mr Singh’s — BBC1 High Street Dreams —  What a great oppor­tun­ity for Mr Singh’s Pun­j­abi Chilli Sauce. I don’t think they could get a bet­ter plug for the sauce than BBC1 High Street Dreams

Hill­Boy from Gurkha Fine Foods — This is billed as “The Ulti­mate Chilli Exper­i­ence – A Con­di­ment that bites back!” and I think it is a first for us to be review­ing a Gurkha product. The Gurkha people are from Nepal and North-East India, the name com­ing from a Hindu warrior-saint Guru Gorakhnath.

Cam­bridge Chilli Farm – Ghost Pep­per 10 Review — While at the Firey Foods Fest­ival in Brighton, Chris & Rosie Jag­ger from Vol­cano Chilli asked me when I was going to review a sauce that they have found to be an excel­lent seller, Chris then sent me another bottle, he said that the recipe has been improved from the ori­ginal version.

Chilli powder put in hus­bands pants — Accord­ing to the Cam­bridge News Shar­ron Mackay the defend­ant in a fraud trial put chilli powder in her husband’s under­pants as their mar­riage fell apart.

Orange Krush Hot Sauce — I’ve been sent a bottle of “Orange Krush” to taste and give my (expert? lol) opin­ion on, this sauce again comes from www.Hot-headz.com and i believe is the only place in the uk you can buy it, i say this as after a brief search using the trus­ted google, hot-headz was the only one that came up in the uk!

Could you eat “Prob­ably the World’s Hot­test Curry” and win £100 — Fire Foods and local Grantham’s Bindi Res­taur­ant are put­ting down a chal­lenge to any­one who thinks they are tough enough!

Lady Bird Johnson’s Ped­ernales River Chili Recipe — This recipe ori­gin­ally con­tained beef suet, but that ingredi­ent was omit­ted after LJB’s severe heart attack when he was Sen­ate major­ity leader. Remem­ber to skim the fat off the chilli.

Blairs Ultra Death

Darth Naga reviews — Blair’s Ultra Death — Well its that time again chile­fanz!! Today I bring you my latest video review, and I reckon this one may just go down in his­tory as the second stu­pid­est thing I have ever done (the first will hope­fully be uploaded to you­tube at some stage LOL!) stu­pid for the simple fact that after hear­ing from Rose Sey­mour that James beck said “we don’t use milk in our video reviews in the US” I decided to hit the bot­tom end of men­tal and do a vid review WITHOUT MILK!! But any­way, the sauce I am review­ing today comes from the god­father of the US hot­sauce scene Mr Blair Lazar him­self, and this par­tic­u­lar sauce is fam­ous for not only being the hot­test sauce he mass pro­duces, but also for being one of the only ones to have its name changed dur­ing his major rebrand­ing last year!

David’s Chilli Oil – Much more than just a gour­met oil — This is not just an “Oil and Chilli” blend; there is a whole extra level of fla­vour to be found here and with Rape seed oil becom­ing the New Olive oil, its time may have come. I am sure you will see more and more gour­met products based on Rape seed oil.

ChilliPepperPete’s Easy Fish Jam­balaya Recipe — Jam­balaya is a Louisi­ana Creole dish of Span­ish and French influ­ence, it is a close rela­tion to the Span­ish paella. This ver­sion is made a little quicker and sim­pler by pre-cooking the rice, tra­di­tion­ally the rice would be added with the stock at the end of pre­par­a­tion and then cooked for 45 – 60 minutes.

Scott Roberts — Chilli Let­ter from Amer­ica #6 — It’s hard to believe it’s already May of 2010. Soon, people all across Amer­ica will be doing out­door grilling and bar­be­cuing, cel­eb­rat­ing Memorial Day Week­end at the end of this month, and won­der­ing what to do with bored kids all day long now that school will be out for the summer.

Thai Pine­apple Curry with Birds Eye Chil­lies — This recipe comes from a friend of Darth Naga, Sean (also know as Relentl3ss), who has cooked this for Darth and Mrs Naga, so it sus­pect it will taste very good. It uses the pop­u­lar Birds Eye Chilli, and not of the ingredi­ents should be hard to find in a reas­on­able supermarket.

The Chilli Jam Man — The 3 Peaks Chilli Jam

The Chilli Jam Man — The 3 Peaks Chilli Jam — RIGHT let me just start out this review by stat­ing that i’m NOT a big fan of sweet chilli things..problem is people keep send­ing me sweet chilli things and they are slowly chan­ging my mind!! Todays “Jam” comes from a guy that up until I received this jar and then added him on twit­ter I knew noth­ing at all about him, but after a bit of net sleuth­ing I found out a little.

Grow­ing Chil­lies from Seed: Part 2 — Once you have some seed­lings to pot-on (see pic­ture 1), it is time to sep­ar­ate them and pot them in indi­vidual pots. We tend to pot-on gradu­ally, so we use 3” pots first. Using very loose seed­ling com­post will help this stage. We like to use ver­mi­culite on the sur­face and perl­ite in the mix.

Hun­garian Paprika — The chilli was intro­duced to Hun­gary by the Turks dur­ing the 16th-17th cen­tur­ies; it was not until the 19th cen­tury that paprika become the dom­in­ant spice in Hun­garian cuisine.

Top 10 UK Chilli Web Sites — May 2010 — The farm­ers are now the top 3 chilli web sites in the UK with the Dart­moor Chilli Farm jump­ing up 2 places to num­ber 3 join­ing Chil­lis Galore and South Devon Chilli Farm in 1st and 2nd places.

Hot-Headz Calypso Carib­bean Style Hot Sauce — Hot-Headz has been a lead­ing sup­plier of Hot Sauces in the UK since 1994, owner Stu­art McAl­lister has a pas­sion for hot sauce both find­ing and devel­op­ing the best sauces he can find around the world.

Holy Cow! Spicy Bom­bay Ketchup

Holy Cow! Spicy Bom­bay Ketchup — BBQ sauce is a area that seems to cover all sorts of sauces, I love BBQ, espe­cially slow cooked pulled pork with lash­ings of BBQ Sauces, but this sauce is a sur­pris­ingly different.

Mr Singh’s Cookalong — Prawn Stir Fry — This is a simple recipe, as you will see exact quant­it­ies are not essen­tial when cook­ing, please feel free to use what you have got, we have added some estim­ates of the quant­it­ies used to help.

Ber­beré (or Ber­bere) Recipe — A Hot Spice Mix­ture from Ethiopia. — Ber­beré ori­gin­ates from Ethiopia. It is a very hot dry spice mix and has become the basis for most Ethiopian cuisine. It should have a course tex­ture, so don’t grind it to a fine powder.

The Chile­Foundry You­Tube Chan­nel — Did you know we have our own You­Tube Chan­nel http://www.youtube.com/user/chilefoundry

Hot Headz & Scorchio Top 10 Products — May 2010 — Hot-Headz and Scorchio provide us each month with there Top 10 products sold that month via their web sites.

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By Hot Juan, May 26, 2010 9:59 am

The farm­ers are now the top 3 chilli web sites in the UK with the Dart­moor Chilli Farm jump­ing up 2 places  to num­ber 3 join­ing Chil­lis Galore and South Devon Chilli Farm in 1st and 2nd places.

New this month is also Fire Foods or Infin­ity Chilli Fame

This is based on data from Alexa (data recorded on 25/05/10)

We are currently logging the statistics for 30+ 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.

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By Hot Juan, April 27, 2010 9:19 am

This has been a good month for the farms with both the “South Devon Chilli Farm” and “Dart­moor
Chilli Farm” jump­ing up in the top 10, the big loser this month was Scorchio hav­ing spent so much time in the top two slots, it is odd to see them drop so far.

I sus­pect that surfers are look­ing for inform­a­tion on grow­ing chil­lies and buy­ing seeds and seed­lings, the farms have got a lot more traffic as this is what they do best, as well as “Chil­lis Galore” who site is a gold mine of inform­a­tion on grow­ing chillis.

Inter­est­ingly just out­side the top 10 is another big riser “Fire Foods”, who had lots of pub­li­city about their Infin­ity Chilli dur­ing April.

This is based on data from Alexa (data recorded on 26/04/10)

We are cur­rently log­ging the stat­ist­ics for 30+ 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.

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