Christmas Post

To help you plan your Christmas shopping this year we have asked the On-line/Mail order retailers what their last shipping days are for Christmas Delivery.

While these are the last official dates for shipment to reach you before Christmas, there is always a rush on the last day to process orders and after that the couriers/post office are also working as fast as possible, so please if you can don’t leave it up to the last minute to order.. remember nothing is guaranteed.

We will try to keep this page up to date, so Chilli suppliers please email us you last posting days and we will add you to the list.

Also from the 1st of December we are running a daily article with an special Christmas offer…

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We have dropped to third this month with the #1 spot now being held  by old favourites Hot-Headz with Scorchio at #2. This month is also the best showing so far for ChilliPepperPete up at #6. But the big surprise is that The Dartmoor Chilli Farm has dropped out of the top 10 to #11. 

Lots of new website designs around at the moment, With Scorcho and ChilliPepperPete and The Dartmoor Chilli Farm all having new sites, it will be interesting to see how this effect them over the coming months.

This is based on data from Alexa (data recorded on 30/10/11) this month we only had 9 sites who ranked in the top 10, we then sub sorted the rest by world ranking.

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Our second month in the number one slot for the ChileFoundry, in fact the top 4 have not changed this month. The Cool Chile Co has made it in to the top 10 this month and the  welcome return of Chillis Galore.

This is based on data from Alexa (data recorded on 25/09/11)

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Are we never destined to be number 1. Well this month Hot-Headz had jumped to the #1 slot with lasts months leader The Dartmoor Chilli Farm just down a couple of places to #3. Looking at the World rankings, Chillis Galore is doing amazingly and is the #1 UK based Chilli site worldwide.

This is based on data from Alexa (data recorded on 29/06/11)

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This month the Dartmoor Chilli Farm have take the number 1 slot , we have dropped down to number 4 behind Hot-Headz and Scorchio.

This is based on data from Alexa (data recorded on 28/05/11)

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Hot-Headz are 1st again, and we have made it to 2nd place this month, but Scorchio has dropped to 6th from  2nd last month. The farms and specialist growers are high on the list again this month.  We also welcome back The Hot Sauce Emporium back in to the list.

This is based on data from Alexa (data recorded on 24/03/11)

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The Clifton Chilli Club are a group of chilli loving fiends, who having tried unsuccessfully to hold their meetings in the local library, were forced – reluctantly – to make a pub their headquarters. Trading their cups of tea for pints of cider was not easy for the three founder members, but the two Dave’s and Jim can now be found on a regular basis in the Coach and Horses pub in Clifton.

Clifton Chilli Club

I first met the founder members early last year when they sneaked up my farm on a secret squirrel raid to gather information. Luckily I caught them, with a serious dose of punishment being dished out as soon as I got them down the pub! Since this time, The Clifton Chilli Club and the Upton Cheyney Chilli Company have worked together on a number of projects with their second Chilli Night being no exception.

With the local paper picking up the story and running a full page spread on the club, there was some concern that the pub may have been swamped. In the end though about 50 chilli enthusiasts came through the doors, all of them hungry to try the huge spread of sauces, chocolates and nuts that had been supplied by many of the chilli companies from across the UK.

JB with some Oak Smoked Chipotle Hot Pig Sausages

The chilli companies who were generous enough to donate their wares were:

• ChilliPepperPete
• Hot-Headz
• Hot Stuff Chilli Company
• Smokey Joe’s Sauces
• Grim Reaper Foods
• Dartmoor Chilli Company
• Fire Foods
• The Hippy Seed Company
• Project Spice
• The Chilli Pepper Company
• Chillis Galore
• Dr Burnorium’s Hot Sauce Emporium
• Cambridge Chilli Farm
• The Upton Cheyney Chilli Company
• The Wiltshire Chilli Farm

Joy and Michael Michaud

Joy and Michael Michaud of Sea-Spring Seeds were also in attendance, with plug plants and seeds for sale. Michael and Joy are a wealth of chilli information with a number of the visitors picking their brains. The main topic of the night however seemed to circulate around the ever changing world’s hottest chilli, with most people agreeing that there is a lot of smoke and mirrors and that a worldwide standard test needs to be set.

The sauces had been carefully laid out on a large table at the back of the pub and were arranged in order of heat. Being a bit of a chicken when it comes to heat I was found lurking around the mild to medium end of the table, but reports of Naga Nicks Viper Sauce could not be ignored and I believe that it was the sauce awarded hottest of the night.

Tasting Table

Naga Nick is a bit warped, and took great pleasure in feeding a 7 pot infused pickled onion to a rather attractive chilli-virgin female. Her reaction was classic and I only wish we had filmed it as it would have made fantastic ‘You Tube’ viewing.

Unfortunately Matt Simpson was not in attendance but he did manage to sneak in his own new 7 Pot based sauce – The Megalodon! Possibly not as hot as Naga Nicks Viper sauce but worth a mention at least and certainly one to look out for at West Dean this year.

Besides the sauces, the pub supplied some lovely food, including chicken wings, Hot Pig Chipotle Chilli Sausages and spicy wedges. The Chilli Con Carne was heated to a super hot level by some Oak smoked Chipotle and Naga spice from Upton Cheyney. I displayed my rather low tolerance to heat as I melted on the floor whilst everyone else seemed to eat it without issue. Top marks to the pub for the spread.

Some of the madness that has been witnessed on previous CCC nights such as naga spice snorting and extreme chilli eating was not apparent and I do wonder if lessons have been learnt?

The evening was nicely rounded off with the raffle winner being announced, who took away a basket of delicious chilli products.

As the pub rang its bell for last orders, we managed a team photo with the new CCC banner, discussed our disappointment that the evening could not have been held in a library and made our way out in to the night.

A great evening was had by all and without doubt we all look forward to the next one which is planned for sometime in the summer. Thanks to everyone at The Clifton Chilli Club.

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Hot-Headz and Scorchio fight it out for #1 spot, swapping place from last month with Hot-Headz just getting the top spot, Chillis Galore has just returned to the top 10 and Fire Foods, is climbing after the great success of the Infinity Chilli.

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The same top three as last month but in a completely different order.. (will we never make it to number 1)

A couple of last months top 10 have dropped out this month with the loss of www.chillipepperpete.com & www.chillisgalore.co.uk from the top 10, but they are just bubbling under, while we had a big jump for www.mexgrocer.co.uk into the number 6 slot.

This is based on data from Alexa (data recorded on 28/01/11)

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Hot-Headz gets the Christmas number one spot after a tough battle with Scorchio over the last few months on the build up to Christmas, new this month is ChilliPepperPete with his site making a big leap up the up rankings to make it to number 10. The ChileFoundry is up just one space to number 2 (Will we ever be the number 1 site ;-]).

We hope to run a different ranking system later next year using actual number of pages viewed on each site, more news on this as we get the scheme worked out.

This is based on data from Alexa (data recorded on 27/12/10)

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