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Sinful Sauces Wicked

by Martin 'Scooby' Arnold on January 13, 2012 · 1 comment

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Sinful Sauces Wicked

Sinful Sauces Wicked

If I was to say the name ‘Sinful Sauces’ to you, what would be the first thing to spring into mind? Devilishly hot? Exceptionally flavoursome? Whatever it is, for me, its pride. And these guys must be incredibly proud of what they have accomplished in over such a short period of time. National chilli awards winner 2011? Best newcomer? Best label? Don’t ask me what’s so great about their products, just get your butt to www.sinfulsauces.co.uk and find out for yourself. I first met this duo down at the Mendlesham Chilli Fiesta in Suffolk last year and was taken aback by their wide range of products from mild, to bloody hot! (Envy to Bliss as they like to say) Products include sauces, spreads, pickles, clothing and giftsets.

The sauce I am reviewing today is Wicked (Hot). And as always, their packaging is stylish, attaractive, fresh and above all, DAMN SEXY! Black glossy label with their trademark Sinful sauce logo and of course, the cheeky devil giving you the teasing wink egging you on to try some sauce. Even the shrink wrap top to the bottle has been placed perfectly on the lid.

This is without a doubt a faultless style of packaging. A real trendsetter. The sauce itself looks rich, red with hint of orange and a loose pulpy texture. Sauce gently flows from one end of the bottle to the other. Once again I must say the word ‘pride’, as they boast using 100% natural ingredients in their products. So what’s in the bottle?????

Ingredients: Roasted Red Peppers (35%), Tomatoes (24%), Red onions, Red Hot Serrano (10%), Sugar, Red Wine Vinegar, Garlic, Black pepper, Rosemary, Olive oil, Salt.

Chilli and garlic together? Sounds spot on to me. I have to open the bottle now but I am struggling to. It seems wrong. Bugger it, I have to try it. Off comes the lid. Straight away a sweet onion smell greets me with a mild Chilli aroma beside it. The tomato smell that comes with it reminds me strangely of spag bol, weird hey. Maybe its mixing with the rosemary to give me that? Either way it smells awesome. Lets have a taste.

Okay now that’s crazy. The sauce actually gives me the feeling that it is warm? Not a chilli hot warm, I mean like it has been popped in the microwave for a few seconds. You get the chilli warmth with it too as well as a beautiful tomato and onion flavour and a slight herby background from the rosemary. Rich roasted flavour from the peppers which takes this sauce to an amazing level of flavour and the heat level is bang on. Texture is smooth and welcoming and encourages more and more of this sauce to be eaten. Very versatile I say, good for most dishes and meals. Heat level is hot but not blistering. If you want to ramp up the heat then have lots, if you want it milder then have a little, simple as that.

So, one question remains. Why the hell are you still reading this and not ordering it??? I’ve just said its one hell of a sauce :D You will definitely not be let down with any of their products. Still reading? O come on, www.sinfulsauces.co.uk.

Bottle kindly supplied by www.sinfulsauces.co.uk and costs only £4.50 for a 148ml bottle. Until next time my fellow Chilliheads remember, if it burns going in, it will burn coming out.

Flavour
(8/10)
Heat
(7/10)
Packaging
(10/10)
Value
(9/10)
Overall
(9.5/10)

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The Wiltshire Chilli Farm – Smoked Chipotle Chilli Sauce

by David Kelly on January 11, 2012 · 0 comments

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The Wiltshire Chilli Farm - Smoked Chipotle Sauce

The Wiltshire Chilli Farm - Smoked Chipotle Sauce

Having recently got my sense of taste & smell back after a prolonged bout of the common cold I’ve been looking forward to getting back to tasting chilli products. So I thought I’d resume reviewing services by trying The Wiltshire Chilli Farm’s ‘Smoked Chipotle chilli sauce’.

Chipotle chillies (pronounced chi-poht-lay, a derivative from Aztec word ‘chilpoktli’ meaning “smoked chilli pepper”) are smoke dried Jalapeños and they are used primarily in Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisines, where they impart their distinctive smoky flavour.

This chipotle sauce from The Wiltshire Chill Farm based near Melksham in Wiltshire is made from their own home-grown Jalapeño chillies, which are smoked for around 20 hours to produce their Chipotles. The glossy labelling on the bottle is distinctive and eye catching with an image of some Chipotles chillies on the front and a “I can handle some heat!” slogan on the front.

Ingredients: Tomatoes, Onion, Red Wine Vinegar, Sugar, Molasses, Smoked Garlic (1%), Smoked Chilli (1%) and “Various Spices”.

Bottle Kindly provided by The Wiltshire Chilli Farm

The sauce is a rich carnelian red colour and upon opening the bottle & inhaling I get the rich aroma of the tomatoes with an underlying smoky tang and hints of the red wine vinegar. The sauce pours fairly easily onto a spoon and has a similar appearance to an Italian ‘passata di pomodoro’ sauce. There is still some texture to the sauce however and I can see some chilli seeds, pieces of garlic and flecks of pepper contained within it.

Tasting the sauce, I immediately get a big initial hit from the tomatoes, slightly sweetened by the sugar and molasses. As this hint of sweetness recedes I can then begin to taste the vinegar & garlic, whilst continuing to have that rich tomato kick. Then the warmth & flavour of the chipotles comes through and envelopes my mouth. It’s a pleasant chilli kick which intensifies as I try more of the sauce, but it’s not overpowering. I’m left with a moderate warmth in my mouth but still able to perceive a sweet & smoky tomato aftertaste.

One of the suggested uses for this sauce is as a ketchup and given how well the ingredients are combined together I can wholeheartedly agree with this. It’s a great tasting sauce that’s bursting with a rich tomato flavour that would be a perfect replacement for any bog standard boring ketchup. I also think this sauce would also be a great addition or enhancer to an Italian ragù sauce for pasta or even in a salsa, given its intense tomato flavour and moderate chilli kick.

The sauce available from The Wiltshire Chilli Farm‘s website at £3.75 for a 140ml bottle and is a worthy condiment to have stocked in your pantry.

Flavour
(8/10)
Heat
(4/10)
Packaging
(7/10)
Value
(7/10)
Overall
(7/10)

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Sinful Sauces – Scotch Bonnet and Pomegranate Pickle

by Darth Naga on November 21, 2011 · 1 comment

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Word up my chilli padawanz, how are you all doing on this crisp autumn day? Its bloody sunny and quite warm here..doesn’t really feel like autumn at all! Sooo where shall I begin with this review? AH YES! I shall start at the beginning of course! The pickle I have for you today comes from the now well known “Sinful Sauces” a company formed by a lovely couple who go by the name of Paul and Kelly, paul you might know as “DJ Brisk” I think he’s a techno DJ or something like that, I would’nt know specifics as us PithLord’s don’t really get out much you see? But that aside it’s not the music we’re here to review its the pickle!! SO lets get down to it.

Sinful Sauces - Scotch Bonnet & Pomegranate

Sinful Sauces - Scotch Bonnet & Pomegranate

Okay, so as you can see, there’s a whole lotta fresh ingedients going on in this pickle, none of that artificial shit here, and quite rightly so, Sinful Sauces (abbreviated to SS from here on in) pride themselves on only using the freshest ingredients and no artificial colourings or flavours, only the best for their customers ya see? Anyway, the jar itself is of SS’s usual high quality gloss finish, with lots of S’s in the background with Sinful’s trademark giant white gothic styled S in the foreground.

Ingredients: Scotch Bonnet Chillies, Pomegranate, Onion, Orange, Red Wine Vinegar, Rapeseed Oil, Spices, Ginger, Garlic.

Review jar supplied by www.sinfulsauces.co.uk

The pickle inside is a rich reddy brown, with noticeable chunks of chilli, seeds and flecks of black and white running through. Upon opening the pickle, the first thing that hits me hard is the smell..i was expecting pomegranate and yet I got a massive whiff of orange, like someone had smacked me round the face with a bag of satsumas! I LOVE orange, and it’s not surprising I smelt it the most seeing as the third item on the ingredients list, that aside I could tell there was chilli in this, but the main fragrance was that of oranges!

The pickle inside was of an interesting consistency..it was chunkyish, but not so much that there were huge chunks of chilli or orange in it…but at the same time it was smooth enough that it would flow out of the jar albeit very, very slowly..but it still poured!! I decided enough was enough of teasing myself with this pickle, I dipped my spoon in and pulled out a rather large glob of this fantastic looking mash, placing it between my lips and moving it around in my mouth to get a fuller taste of it.

Instantly I was hit by the pomegranate and orange flavours, almost too sweet were it not for the savoury, slightly bitter hit provided by the scotch bonnet peppers! I was surprised that the flavours worked together this well..its not very often you find a sauce that starts off sweet and becomes savoury with a very indian restaurant-like aftertaste coupled with an amazing tongue burn that just keeps you coming back for another hit!

It wasn’t until I gave a single solitary hiccup did I notice that sweat was pouring down my brow, at this point I decided to stop eating the pickle and carry on writing this review.

The more I eat this stuff the more I realise that yet again Sinful Sauces have a winning combination on their hands, and yet again its a very moreish pickle that would not be out of place in an indian restaurant, the fruity zing of the orange and pomegranate, coupled with the scotch bonnet heat makes this a pickle that is well worth trying at least once!! I suspect it would be PERFECT mixed with a little sour cream and used as a nice dip for toasted pitta’s cut into strips!

At only £3.95 directly from www.sinfulsauces.co.uk this is a pickle that will last a while, and considering just how fresh the ingredients are I think its well worth the money, so make sure you get it in ready for your next indian themed meal!

Well, until my next review my chilli padawanz, I will bid you adieu, this old pithlord has gotta get some shut eye! May the sauce be with you, always!!

Flavour
(8/10)
Heat
(6/10)
Packaging
(8/10)
Value
(6/10)
Overall
(7/10)

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David Kelly reviews Project Spice – Smokin’ Bandit

by David Kelly on September 17, 2011 · 0 comments

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Project Spice - Smokin' Bandit

Project Spice - Smokin' Bandit

Newly released from David Tidmarsh of Project Spice in Dawlish, Devon, is Smokin’ Bandit. This is the sixth sauce to be launched in Project Spice’s range since and is David’s take on the traditional chipotle sauce.

The sauce is a brown molasses in colour with a thick, virtually smooth consistency. The look & consistency of this sauce reminds me of another rather famous British brown sauce, but that’s where this comparison ends. This sauce releases a rich smokey aroma with undertones of garlic is instantly released upon opening the bottle. The garlic added to the sauce has also been smoked, so it enriches the depth of this smoky aroma rather than detracting from it.

When tasting the sauce there’s an initial hint of sweetness from the molasses followed by the rich flavour of black beans & the smoked garlic. Then the heat from the smoked Naga & Morita chillies kicks in (no extract is used). The depth of flavours in the sauce however allows them to continue to be tasted as the hot kick from the chillies builds up, leaving a good warmth in the mouth.

As with all of Dave’s sauces only 100% natural ingredients – NO artificial colours or flavourings

Ingredients: Black beans, Tomato, Onion, Smoked Garlic, Smoked Naga & Morita chillies, Red wine vinegar, Molasses, water, fresh Thyme & Oregano, Smoked paprika, salt

The combination of the black beans & garlic with the sweet edge given by the molasses works really here, and given the nature of this sauce it would work very well with BBQ meats.

At £3.95 for a 125ml bottle this sauce is definitely worth trying, though if you’re like me you may find the contents diminishing quicky as it’s very moreish!

Flavour
(9/10)
Heat
(7.5/10)
Packaging
(6/10)
Value
(8/10)
Overall
(8/10)

Note: Our thanks to David Kelly for submitting this excellent review, we hope to have more from David over then next few months.

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