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By Darth Naga, June 22, 2010 9:38 am

The Chilli Pep­per Com­pany — Naga Viper

Right people, its been a while since I reviewed one of Geds mas­ter­pieces, so here is such a review! I have known Ged from The Chilli Pep­per Com­pany (CPC) for a couple of years now, he was the man who intro­duced me to extract and offered me a taste of 7.3 mil­lion SHU to try, DAMN! that was hot! He does do some stu­pidly hot sauces such as his now infam­ous “10 Minute burn” and the sauce I have today is a hot one, but not to the same scale!

Ingredi­ents: Toma­toes, Fresh Naga Morich, Cider Vin­egar, Orange Juice, Chi­potle Chilli, Spices, Herbs, Cel­ery, Mustard.

(Review bottle sup­plied by Ged from www.thechilipeppercompany.co.uk)

“Naga Viper” comes in one of the CPC stand­ard bottles with one of Geds own prin­ted labels on that has a snazzy little pic­ture on, in this case the pic­ture is of a very venem­ous look­ing cobra, which has been put there to obvi­ously reflect the name, and of course refer­ring to the fact that the Naga is also known as “Nai mir­ris” in Sri lanka which lit­er­ally means “Cobra chilli” so the pic­ture on the label is very apt indeed!

The sauce inside is smooth and fre flow­ing without being watery or overly liquidy, this is PERFECT pour­ing con­sist­en­cey and I reckon it would do well to be poured over abso­lutely any­thing. Upon twist­ing off the cap I noticed it smells a little like super­mar­ket tomato ketchup and Naga’s! which is no bad thing as I think keth­cup freshly opened smells amaz­ing, i’m not a fan of the fla­vour of ketchup though, which is why I am glad this bad boy tasted dif­fer­ently to how it smells!

I poured a little out onto my fabled tast­ing spoon and then popped it into my mouth to swirl it round and get a feel for the fla­vour of it and I must say I was pleasently sur­prised! The fla­vour that hits almost imme­di­ately is a sweet naga/tomato fla­vour with under­tones of orange, as the fla­vour dis­sip­ates and the heat builds you are left with a beau­ti­ful smoki­ness which no doubt comes from the chi­potle thats present. I took another spoon­ful and I thinks its safe to say that the heat in this sauce while not appar­ent at first is cer­tainly a build­ing heat that grabs you a little more each time you dip in! By the third tea­spoon a slight film of sweat had formed on my brow and my mouth was ask­ing nicely if I would stop!

I would hon­estly recom­mend this to any­one, for the ardent nut­ters like myself this works as a great table sauce for gen­eral every­day use and for adding to any­thing, for the more new­bie chile heads this is a sauce that must be treated with respect and not just jumped into head first, you WILL get burned! So give it a try in soups and stews, and maybe add a dash to your next curry?

At a measly £5.50 a bottle from www.thechilipeppercompany.co.uk you can’t go far wrong with this sauce, its a good all rounder with a nice heat level and immense amounts of fla­vour to boot!!

Right I bet­ter go and grab a glass ‘o milk! Until next time chile­fanz, may the sauce be with you!!

Fla­vour	(8/10)
Heat	(6/10)
Pack­aging	(9/10)
Value	(8/10)
Over­all	(8/10)

Edit­ors Note:- Since Darth Naga Did this review the label has been redesigned, we have increased our pack­aging and over­all rat­ings to reflect this.

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By Hot Juan, June 15, 2010 9:53 am

Old Texas BBQ — Ori­ginal Barbe­que Sauce

I love BBQ and BBQ sauces, but here in the UK we use BBQ Grills and so these type of sauces need to be used cor­rectly and only added to food either after cook­ing or dur­ing the last few moments of cook­ing. Unlike mar­in­ades or rubs they con­tain lots of sugar, which if used on the dir­ect hear of a BBQ grill will burn and start to taste very unpleasant.

This BBQ sauce is a real find, it is sweet, but not overly sticky, it has a excel­lent smoky fla­vour, that is impar­ted by some liquid smoke, but without the chem­ical after taste I often find with added smoke flavours.

It coats the food well; we used it on some chicken, adding it after cook­ing, it really enhanced the fla­vour of the food.

Ingredi­ents: Water, Brown Sugar, Tomato Paste, Pre­pared Yel­low Mus­tard, Dis­tilled Vin­egar, Liquid Smoke, Molasses, Gran­u­lated Gar­lic Salt, Salt, Chilli Powder, Dehyd­rated Onion, Onion Gran­u­lated, Xanthan Gum, Cit­ric Acid, Cay­enne Pep­per, Ground Cumin, Ground Oregano, Ground Cloves.

(Bottle kindly provided by Hot Headz)

I don’t think I have tasted a bet­ter Texas style BBQ sauce in the UK, each of the ingredi­ents works well together to pro­duce a product packed with fla­vour. In many cases this sauce can be used res­cue that burned bur­ger, chicken, or saus­age and make our BBQ Grills a pleas­ure to use.

If you like BBQ, don’t buy a cheap smoky BBQ sauce from the super­mar­ket again.

You can order this one online at www.hot-headz.com, it comes in a large 510g bottle, so there will be plenty to go around and at only £3.99 it is well worth it.

Fla­vour	(8.5/10)
Heat	(3/10)
Pack­aging	(6/10)
Value	(8/10)
Over­all	(8/10)

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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 27, 2010 12:13 pm

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.

This sauce is inspired by the tastes of the West Indies with chil­lies, fruit and spices com­bined to make a sauce with a bright orange/yellow colour.

Hot-Headz Calypso Carib­bean Style Hot Sauce

This is no strong smell from this sauce, except for a little fruity aroma from the Papaya and a hint of mus­tard. The first fla­vours I find are from the mus­tard and cane vin­egar, then the Papaya sweet­ness, fol­lowed by the heat from the chil­lies and then a pleas­ant after taste from the Gar­lic and Tur­meric and my mouth cools between spoon full’s.

This is not a killer heat hot sauce, but is has a good kick and no unpleas­ant sur­prises, This would be good with BBQ or roast beef, or added to a salad dress­ing it will bring a zing to most things.

After the bottle has been open a while and after tast­ing a few tea­spoons, I can now start the smell a much stronger Mustard/Turmeric/Papaya aroma from the bottle (It has awakened my sense of smell and make me feel hungry)

Ingredi­ents: Papaya, Water, Habanero Pep­per, Salt, Onion, Naga Jolokia pep­per 2%, Sugar, Acetic Acid, Starch, Mus­tard, Brown Sugar, Cucum­ber, Cane Vin­egar, Gar­lic Powder, Tur­meric Root, Curry.

Bottles kind­ley Provided by www.hot-headz.com

As with many of the sauces we receive this sauce con­tains the Naga Jolokia, this is the Hot chilli of the moment (excuse the pun), but sure when it hot to the West Indies, but I sus­pect it is being used to add heat to this sauce without using an extract.

The sauce is avail­able in two sizes the stand­ard 148ml bottle at £2.99 and a very use­ful pocket size 58 ml bottle at £1.99 which is ideal for tak­ing to that sum­mer BBQ’s just in case! You can order on-line from www.hot-headz.com

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By Darth Naga, May 14, 2010 9:41 am

Orange Krush Hot Sauce

Well, it looks like its time for another of my hot sauce reviews to tan­tal­ize your tastebuds!!

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!

Now the sauce itself is an inter­est­ing once, the scent of it will have you think­ing “what is that smell?” and i can hon­estly tell you i have no idea but when you first smell it take a look at the vast ingredi­ents list and draw your own con­clu­sions, this is one that truly plays hopscotch with your olfact­ory senses!!

Ingredi­ents:
Orange Habanero Pep­pers, Vin­egar, salt, Cel­ery Seed, mus­tard, Red Pep­per, Black Pep­per, Bay Leaf, Clove, All­spice, Ginger, Mace, Car­damom, Cin­na­mon and paprika.

As you can see from the ingredi­ents list, there are so many things in this sauce (all nat­ural i hasten to add, no extract here!!) that you really can’t pin down the aroma to just one ingredi­ent, the color how­ever quite obvi­ously comes from the red pep­pers, orange habanero and paprika, which when all three are com­bined gives it this beau­ti­ful orangey red color that is dot­ted with little black specks and pep­per seeds, and i for one LOVE pep­per seeds in my sauces!!

The label is a bright mix­ture of blues and yel­lows and oranges and greens with a car­toon of a guy get­ting an elec­tric shock whils plug­ging in two habanero pep­pers (WTF???), upon tast­ing the sauce i have to say that i was greeted with a strong mix of fla­vours that i can per­son­ally only pin down to three ingredi­ents, although i am sure oth­ers would find dif­fer­ent fla­vours to me…i could taste vin­egar, mus­tard and alot of black pep­per, my mouth was warm and although the chile hic­cups did’nt kick in i did get a bit of a sweat on, which is say­ing something!!

The sauce is nice and hot but not stu­pid and the heat is all nat­ural, per­fect for old and new chile headz alike!! The taste is sim­ilar to Encona scotch bon­net sauce, but ALOT more com­plex, at only £4.99 for 150ml i think this sauce is excel­lent value for money and will have a place in my sauce cup­board as i love the fla­vour of black pep­per and this is one sauce that has it in spades!!

Over­all its pep­pery and full of crunchy seeds and has an irre­s­it­able color that you’ll love, and its all nat­ural to boot!!!

Buy it now from www.Hot-Headz.com and tell em Darth Naga sent you!

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