The ChileFoundry - The UK's Online Magazine for Chilli Reviews, News and Recipes
This is recommended reading, Dave Hirschkop is the original king of hot sauces, his Dave’s Insanity Sauce is still one of the biggest selling super hot sauces, it is even stocked in ASDA.
Visit www.scottrobertsweb.com to see the full article.
{ 0 comments }
Gerald Fowler - The Chilli pepper Company
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.
The organisers were advised to have the sauce removed from sale and banned it from the show.
This is a rare event at Chilli Show, but when Dave Hirschkop first exhibited Dave’s Insanity Sauce, this was also banned, since then Extreme sauces have become a lot hotter…
{ 0 comments }
Dave's Gourmet - Garlic Chilli Sauce
Word up my hot sauce homies!! today’s sauce comes all the way from the sultan of sweat himself Dave Hirschkop, yes Daves Gourmet is quite a famous company among chileheadz and in general really, he started the company up back in 1995 with a restaurant he owned and ran known as “Burrito Madness” near the university of Maryland, in a story which is remarkably similar to that of his fellow Lord of the flames Blair Lazar, Dave himself had problems with drunkards at his licensed restaurant so he decided to create a really hot sauce to drive the drunkards out or at least quieten them down.
He soon discovered that the hotter the sauce, the faster the drunks left his premises, and so he went on a mission to try and create the hottest sauce around, he started the company “Dave’s Gourmet”, moved the company to San Francisco, invented insanity sauce and took it to the national fiery foods show in New Mexico and the rest as they say, is history. Dave started an arms race for sauces that contain capsaicin extract in them to boost the heat, others have since taken on the challenge and as a result new and hotter sauces are being invented all the time, but we really have Dave and Blair to thank for the “super hot” hot sauce!
Anyway the sauce i have today is one of Dave’s milder offerings, a sauce by the name of “Daves Gourmet Garlic and Chile Sauce” and the ingredients of this sauce are below:
Ingredients: Chile puree (Chile peppers, citric acid), water, sugar, garlic, vinegar and salt.
Now the first thing i have to point out is how low vinegar is on the list of ingredients, now for those of you that don’t know the lower on the list that particular ingredient is the less of it there is, the ingredients are all in order of percentage, from highest to lowest! Now as i have pointed out vinegar is second to last!! and as such this sauce has no vinegary scent at all you can literally smell just chile and vinegar, so that impressed me straight away.
The bottle itself is the standard glass bottle with Dave’s staple logo on the front, which is a chile on a beach with shades on, subtle little things on the logo change with the different sauces (his ghost pepper sauce for example features the beach scene but with a ghostly white pepper rising from the lazing beach Chile) The sauce itself is a beautiful tomatoey red colour and makes itself look really appetizing, so in typical Darth Naga tradition i took this as an invite to sample the sauce inside!
The first flavour that immediately hits me is the garlic, its relatively low on the list but the flavour and presence is intense, then i get a sharp pang of heat, it’s got a black peppery tang to it even though there is no black pepper in this sauce, it hits hard but dies down very quickly, this is the kind of sauce that i think almost anyone who likes spicy food will enjoy, its full of flavour and has a satisfying heat punch to keep the hardened chile headz among us happy!
This sauce is available almost everywhere online, its £3.99 from Hot Headz or Scorchio and i believe this is one of Dave’s sauce that is still only available at speciality stores online as it hasn’t made it to ASDA unlike “Insanity sauce” and “Temporary insanity sauce” so if you really like garlic go and grab a bottle of this today, it’s not a sauce I’ll be buying regularly but its definitely a sauce i would recommend, especially if you love garlic!!
Seeya next time chile headz, until then may the sauce be with you!!
{ 0 comments }
Blair’s Pure Death Sauce
So here I sit, looking longingly at my latest review sauce “Blair’s Pure Death”, it’s a sauce I have bought before, in fact my first taste was at last year’s Chile Fiesta in West Dean Gardens (Be there or be square chilefanz!! 8th and 9th of august this year!!).
I bought the bottle from the Hot Headz stand (www.hot-headz.com for those not in the know!), but it can also be bought at www.scorchio.co.uk depending on shop preference really.
Blair himself has to be the most famous hot sauce maker other than Dave Hirschkop (Dave’s insanity sauce) in the world, and as such his line of products are expected to be of a higher quality than most, Blair started the death sauce madness back in 1989 when he was just 19 years old, he used the original death sauce to get rowdy punters out of his bar at closing time. Basically he would tell them that if they could eat all the hot wings made with this “Death sauce” then they could stay…needless to say not one patron got to stay after closing…fast forward to the present day and Blair’s famous skull motif has to be one of the most widely recognised symbols with chilefanz all around the globe!!
Nowadays people are eating sauces much hotter than the original death sauce, but a lot of us also strive for flavour, and that is where today’s sauce comes into its own. The sauce itself is bright orange, and i mean BRIGHT but yet this is all natural baby!! the colour comes from the Orange Habanero’s that Blair uses in this sauce, its slightly chunky too which is nice to see in a sauce like this, the ingredients are pretty simple, so let’s get those out of the way now:
Ingredients:
Habanero chili pods, Naga jolokia, Vinegar, Hawaiian red salt.
That it, there is literally nothing more to it, and that’s instantly apparent the moment you sniff the bottle, you can literally smell Habanero and Naga…and nothing more! Upon lifting the bottle to my lips i realised this sauce tastes EXACTLY how it smells, fresh, clean, crisp and very warm..this is a sauce which was made for the people who love the flavour of Naga and Habanero chile but aren’t so fond of the bite, don’t get me wrong its hot, but its just not searing, and THAT is what makes it so great!!
The only sauce that i find is on the same level as this is Hot Headz own “Satan’s Sweat” because that is at the other extreme end of the scale, with the fresh taste of Naga and the searing heat coupled with it, for those of us with stronger stomachs and even stronger taste buds LOL!!! As i said at the beginning of this review, I have had this sauce before and i finished it within a couple of weeks as it was amazing, and that hasn’t changed, it’s one of the cheapest of Blair’s sauces at only £4.99 a bottle from either of the retailers mentioned, but it’s also one of his best and shouldn’t be overlooked just because its not as expensive as some of his other sauces! This belongs in EVERY chileheadz cupboard and should be sat proudly next to a bottle of “Satans Sweat” just so you can choose your heat before you eat!!
Blair’s Pure Death Sauce is available from www.hot-headz.com and www.scorchio.co.uk
{ 1 comment }
