Tesco is now stock­ing both Dave’s Insan­ity Sauce at £2.98 and Dave’s Ghost Pep­per Sauce at £5.99 per bottle.

I sus­pect at these prices they will not be around for long.

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 —  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.

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.

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 —  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.

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 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.

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 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.