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By Darth Naga, July 27, 2010 9:57 am

Right! time for me to intro­duce a NEW fea­ture here at the Chile­foundry! This is an idea myself and Hot Juan have had for some time, but last week was the first proper chance we got to actu­ally imple­ment it, the idea we had was for a series of fea­tur­ettes based on dif­fer­ent chilli and hot­sauce man­u­fac­tur­ers and dis­trib­ut­ors based in the UK and we shall visit these people and then make a short doc­u­ment­ary type video on each one!

I decided to call it “Meet your maker” as i felt that was title that best fits the series!

The ori­ginal idea was to do one long video and go from there, BUT due to You­tube restraints we can only upload it in 10 min chunks, which as it turns out is a good idea as now you can choose the con­tent you want to see!

So the day star­ted off with me stand­ing out­side Hot-Headz HQ on a blaz­ing hot sum­mer day in Stroud knock­ing on the door, luck­ily for me Stu­art was in work that day and not off attend­ing one of the many meet­ings he has, busy man is Stu!! Stu­art invited me inside and then pro­ceeded to give me a little his­tory on Hot-Headz and how the name became fam­ous! If you wanna know a little more about the Com­pany and the people behind it then watch this intro!

After that little bit of his­tory Stu­art went on to give me a little tour of one of the Hot-Headz ware­houses, and we came across a few sauces that caught my eye, me being the curi­ous (Nosey) type i decided this was a prime oppor­tun­ity to dig into Stu­arts vast know­ledge of Hot­sauces and who makes them.

And then came my favour­ite part of the trip…Stuart invited me to see the one room that not alot of people get to see, his own per­sonal sauce col­lec­tion or the “Hot room” as he calls it!
This is TRULY a site to behold, its a sauce col­lect­ors dream and i felt truly priv­iledged that Stu allowed us to film inside the room!

So there you have it, the ins and out of Hot-Headz HQ and the people behind it all, Even though the last video says it all i just want to thank Stu­art McAl­lister for let­ting us film inside his headquar­ters, Hot Juan for doing all the driv­ing and mak­ing this visit pos­sible and Mrs Naga for film­ing it all for us! As a rare treat i will sign off with a little tast­ing video we did at Hot-Headz HQ where Stu­art him­self actu­ally joined us and gave his views on a couple of sauces, so check this vid out and see just what the God­father of the UK hot­sauce move­ment has to say! Till next time chile­fanz, may the sauce be with you!

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By Darth Naga, June 19, 2010 2:27 pm

Okay…where do I start?? how about OMFGTHISSAUCEISSOBLOODYDAMNHOTITREALLYFOOKINGHURTS.…

Cajohn’s Mon­goose Hot Sauce

Okay now thats out of the way, lets crack on with the review. The sauce myself and Bin­bagz reviewed a couple of days ago is a hot one to say the least, but then thats not sur­pris­ing con­sid­er­ing who actu­ally makes it! Cajohn is a guy from Colum­bus, Ohio who star­ted out life as a Fire chief with the Colum­bus fire depart­ment, but after a while he real­ised that put­ting fires out was’nt his thing, and that he pre­ferred start­ing fires..in peoples mouths!

Ingredi­ents: Bhut Jolokia chiles, Fatalii chiles, Vin­egar, Nat­ural flavours.

(Review bottle kindly sup­plied by www.hot-headz.com)

“Mon­goose” is one hell of a sauce it has to be said, my exper­i­ences with Cajohn’s sauces have’nt been great to say the least but this sauce has truly con­ver­ted me! It all starts with this awe­some little black gift box, that has what looks like a mon­goose on the front com­ing out of the dark with a snake in its teeth, couple with the title this ser­i­ously looks like the cover of some hor­ror b-movie and the con­tents tell a pretty sim­ilar tale!

The bottle inside is much smal­ler than most sauce bottles as you can see from the video, it looks a little like a medi­cine bottle and at 59ml alot of people are gonne be think­ing “Hang on a minute, thats a bit crap for £8!” but fear not!, if I did’nt think it was worth buy­ing I would slate it as opposed to sing its praises, if theres one thing my read­ers know of me its that I am hon­est and fair in my reviews, and this is no different!

Take a look at the video below and i’ll see you on the other side!

SEE??? SEE THAT???!! when I said this sauce was insane I bloody well meant it! As myself and Bin­bagz have poin­ted out dur­ing the video, the extract fla­vour (Cajohn puts his extract under the head­ing “nat­ural fla­vours”, mainly because it is a nat­ural product!)is very well hid­den by both the Naga (YAY!) and the Fatalii chil­lis and as such this makes a very nice fla­voured sauce that lit­er­ally grabs you by the plums with its heat level and won’t let go unless you ask really, REALLY nicely!

My review bottle was sup­plied by Stu­art Mcal­lister of Hot Headz! and as such you can pur­chase this stuff right NOW over at www.hot-headz.com for £7.99 a bottle, which may seem pricey to some, but trust me, its worth every penny and this is a sauce that you won’t get through in a hurry, you only need to use a couple of drops in a meal for 2 or 4 and that will give it a crack­ing kick!

Until next time my chile Padawanz! use the sauce!!

Fla­vour	(7/10)
Heat	(11/10)
Pack­aging	(9/10)
Value	(4/10)
Over­all	(7/10)

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By Darth Naga, April 28, 2010 9:34 am

Word up my chilli com­padres! here I am once again with another hot sauce review to brighten up an oth­er­wise bor­ing work day! The sauce i’m review­ing today comes from one of the grand­mas­ters of the UK hot­sauce scene, none other than Stu­art McAl­lister aka “Dr Hotz” who runs the com­pany “Hot Headz” (hence­forth known as HH).

Hot-Headz Naga Sauce

Stu star­ted HH back in 1994 and over the past 16 years it has become not only one of the best places on the net for import hot sauce, but they also make some damn fine sauces them­selves, includ­ing my per­sonal all time favour­ite “Who Dares Burns”.

But enough about me and my favour­ite things, lets crack on with this mouth­wa­ter­ing review!

Ingredi­ents: tomato, water, onion, sugar, vin­egar, naga chilli, ginger, gar­lic, salt and sun­flower oil.

(review bottle kindly sup­plied by www.hot-headz.com)

Right, I’m not sure if we have done a fea­ture on it yet (we def­in­itely should!) but if you hadn’t noticed, HH have done a major re-branding across their entire own range of sauces, and amongst the re-brands there are a couple of sauces that have had the recipes improved, one of these is their “Naga sauce”. Hot Juan reviewed the naga sauce way back in may of last year (oh how time flies) and he found it to be very nice and thus gave it a good 3.5 out of 5.

Now I spoke to Stu­art about his Naga sauce, as I still have a bottle barely touched, for the simple reason that it was wayyyyyyy to watery for me, the fla­vour was amaz­ing but the con­sist­ency was too runny and lacked body. This “New improved recipe” Naga sauce there­fore caught my eye and as such I HAD to review it!

The bottle looks abso­lutely amaz­ing, the new HH logo and design of the labels is some­thing that has really revamped HH in my eyes, the label con­tains the name of the sauce, its ingredi­ents and a little about hot headz them­selves along with a new improved chilli rat­ing! This par­tic­u­lar sauce has 5 chilli’s which obvi­ously means its bloody hot!

I twis­ted the cap off and poured some out, instantly noti­cing the pun­gent smell of both gar­lic and ginger with the Naga linger­ing in the back­ground mak­ing sure it wasn’t going to be ignored!

The con­sist­ency is VASTLY improved, it now actu­ally has little chunks of Naga flesh and seeds through­out, the sauce has a slight orangey red col­our to it with flecks of white and it pours beau­ti­fully, I wasted no time in pla­cing the spoon into my mouth to fully savour the fla­vour and heat of this improved sauce.

Imme­di­ately I was hit with a slight sweet­ness which though unex­pec­ted cer­tainly com­pli­men­ted the ginger and gar­lic well, a hint of Naga fla­vour was also present though per­haps not as much as I would have liked. The heat was pier­cing, my tongue imme­di­ately reacted to the heat by recoil­ing a little as the pain spread across my lips and the roof of my mouth. The heat was a linger­ing one, it seemed to hang around for a good 5 or so minutes before eas­ing off enough for me to con­tinue writ­ing this review!

This is one fant­astic Naga sauce, the heat and fla­vour are a per­fect com­bin­a­tion that seem to work well and I could ima­gine this sauce being good splashed over eggs, fish, chips and def­in­itely bur­gers!! With bar­be­cue sea­son upon us you’d be mad not to go to www.hot-headz.com and pick up a bottle of this for a mere £3.99 which con­sid­er­ing its many uses is a bar­gain price!!

Until next time my chilli padawanz, may the sauce be with you, always!!

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By Darth Naga, December 16, 2009 2:06 pm

Hot-Headz — Who Dares Burns 2nd Assault

Okay, so my review today star­ted last week, a two part review, one part text, the other part video! The sauce WE reviewed comes from a well known sup­plier here in the UK known simply as “Hot-Headz”, Stu­art McAl­lister sent me a bottle of his hot­test product, and prob­ably the hot­test table sauce in the UK to date!

It all star­ted on a Wed­nes­day night when I texted my friend Jody and asked him if he wanted to do one of my stu­pidly hot sauce reviews with me on video for a laugh, to which he agreed! it tran­spired the next day that he was actu­ally drunk the night before and had agreed to the feat of mad­ness whilst in his drunken stupor, nev­er­the­less a man of his word, he sat and did the review with me whilst sober this time, though I am start­ing to think he wished he hadn’t!

Ingredi­ents: Vin­egar, hot chile pep­pers (19%), pep­per extract (14%), onion puree, spices, salt, xanthan gum (E415)

“Who dares burns 2nd assault” is the sauce that Jody drunk­enly agreed to try, and as i showed him the bottle before the cam­era star­ted rolling he told me he was a little scared, but excited at the same time and more import­antly, ready.

The bottle itself is a stand­ard 148ml bottle used across Hot-Headz entire range of sauces, the label itself is very remin­is­cent of the “Who Dares Burns” label, with the winged chilli tak­ing pride of place on the front of the black label, albeit with the wings being MUCH more fiery than usual, the little ther­mo­meter on the side also goes off the scalle and ends in a lil erup­tion at the top just to give you an idea of how hot this stuff is!
The sauce inside is a deep red in col­our, a really angry look­ing sauce, and without even smelling it you KNOW its gonna hurt alot! it has alot of seeds supen­ded within and is of a nice pour­able con­sist­ency too.

I popped the cap on the bottle and had a good sniff before the video, and i could smell only two things…Chipotle and Extract, that was it! But in all hon­esty Stu did’nt make this for people who like it mild, he made it for the psycho’s among us that have tried the hot­test stuff Amer­ica can dish out and want just a bit more heat, thus WDB2 was born!

Let­ting the cam­era roll with Mrs Naga at the helm, i explained to you guys at home a little about the sauce, then popped the lid and gave it a shake before pour­ing a little…actually the video explains it all:

So there you have it! pos­sibly the hot­test sauce in the UK and cer­tainly one to rival the Amer­ican “ultra hot” sauces eas­ily! one of the lead­ers in the “stu­pidly hot bey­ond all doubt” move­ment that seems to be becom­ing more pop­u­lar as time goes on! The only sauces that come close to this level of heat are “Satan’s shit” by CPP, “10 Minute burn” by CPC, and “Nitro Naga bio­haz­ard edi­tion” from Scorchio, of course there are a few US sauces that come close to this but i prefer to focus on good brit­ish sauces!!

“Who Dares Burns 2nd Assault” is avail­able from www.hot-headz.com for a paltry £7.50 a bottle and if you spend £30 or more before the 20th of Decem­ber you get a hot sauce gift pack worth £12.99 for nowt!!! gratis!! free!! FOC!!! so what the hell are you wait­ing for?? get your arse over to www.hot-headz.com NOW and buy some sauce! oh and tell Stu that Darth said hi!

Till next time my chile­ma­ni­acz!! The sauce is strong in you all!!

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