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By Darth Naga, August 5, 2010 7:23 pm

Chilli Pep­per Com­pany — Born to Burn

Right, its lit­er­ally only 2 days to go now till west dean and i am doing my best to get some reviews out there of sauces that are actu­ally going to be at the show! Today I bring you a sauce made by the amaz­ing Ger­ald fowler of the “Chilli Pep­per Com­pany” (CPC hence­forth) who is most fam­ous for bring­ing us “10 minute burn” last septem­ber and things just have’nt been the same for Ged since! The sauce i am review­ing today is one that Ged is labelling as his “hot­test non-extract” sauce, so as you can proab­ably ima­gine, I am MUCHOS excited to be given one of the first bottles to review!!

Ingredi­ents: Toma­toes, bhut jolokia 30%, vin­egar, sugar, mus­tard seeds, spices.

(Review bottle gen­er­ously sup­plied by www.chileseeds.co.uk)

There! now thats not alot of ingredi­ents at all, so I was fooled into think­ing this sauce may not be that hot simply because it did’nt have any extract in and the Jolokia con­tent is only 30%..as i soon found out, “only” 30% is clearly more than enough to make this reviewer sweat bul­lets and wish he’d died!!

“Born to Burn” as this sauce is known is one of the sauces that i believe Ged is launch­ing at West Dean as this one isn’t on his web­site yet and as such it’s not avail­able to the gen­eral pub­lic, so i thought that i HAD to give this a video review, just to see if it war­ran­ted the “ultre hot” label and to give you guys an idea of what to expect at West Dean this com­ing week­end! Now without fur­ther ado lets get on with the video!!

Soooooo there you have it, a tasty little sauce that I TOTALLY under­es­tim­ated and you guys and girls out there can con­sider that a les­son well learnt! If you want to buy “Born to burn” then you should get yourselves over to www.chileseeds.co.uk and grab a bottle at about £6 and you won’t be sorry you did! FAILING THAT! you could just bring your arse down to the “West Dean Chilli Fiesta” this week­end, meet Ged him­self and buy a bottle right from his stall, tell him Darth Naga sent you, bet­ter yet just grab me on the day and ask me to come with you to his stall! LOL!

Until next time my chilli padawanz, don’t under­es­tim­ate the power of the dark side of the sauce!

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

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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 3, 2010 12:15 pm

Aunty Jee’s Hand­cooked Ori­ginal Hot Salsa

Aunty Jee was born in Kenya her Farther migrated there from the Pun­jab in India in 1929, she immig­rated in the UK in 1966. In 1987 she opened her first res­taur­ant “Aunty Jee’s Curry Kit­chen”. In 2002 she star­ted Beau­ti­ful Mind Food Ltd to start mak­ing and selling a range of 100% veget­arian food and snacks.

In the mean time she has mar­ried and has four chil­dren, now in 2010 the busi­ness is still grow­ing with dis­trib­ut­ors:- Suma (01422 313845) and Queens­wood (01278 424084) and also on-line at www.naturalgrocery.co.uk

The Salsa comes in a 370g jar, on open­ing you can smell the tomato and cider vin­egar, the salsa is well packed with toma­toes and onion it is not finely chopped, you can see the qual­ity of the ingredients.

The taste in won­der­ful , there is a sweet­ness to the heat as the tomato washes over my tongue, I can taste the warmth from the chilli, it is hot­ter than I expec­ted, but hot enough to dis­tract from the other fla­vours, this is a real qual­ity product, the mouth feel (a term from my beer tast­ing days) is very smooth and silky, I am spoon­ing this from dir­ect from the jar with a big smile on my face.

Ingredi­ents: Chopped Toma­toes (60%), Tomato Puree (10%), Onions (10%), Chilli Pep­pers, Chilli Flakes, Apple Cider Vin­egar, Sugar, Salt, Gar­lic Powder, Cit­ric Acid E330.

You need to taste this to know how good it is, like many salsa’s it is hard to get the qual­ity of the product over in the pack­aging, they need to get this product in the mouths of the con­sumers with tast­ing at shows and mar­kets, it will sell like hot cakes!!

At only £2.99 per jar it is a bit of a bar­gain, we also have a jar of Aunty Jee’s Mild Bean Salsa to taste, so expect this to be reviewed in the next few months.

You will also see that Aunty Jee pro­duces a range of cur­ries and frozen products for more inform­a­tion visit www.auntyjee.co.uk

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By Hot Juan, April 4, 2010 9:21 am

Dan­ger­ous Sauce for Boys No1 The Spitfire

Inspired by Wilf, ChillPepperPete’s Son, this sauce con­tains a pep­per I had not come across before, the Aleppo Pep­per (A Cap­sicum Annuum), which is named after the town Aleppo in Syria, it’s not a very hot pep­per, it is described as fruity, with under­tones of Cumin and Raisins.

The sauce has a most unique fla­vour, ini­tially I could smell the Soy sauce, and expec­ted a that to be the main fla­vour, but while I could taste soy, it reminds me of mak­ing of the base sauce for a curry, lots of deep rich cooked onions, tomato and spices. Chil­liPep­per­Pete describes it as hav­ing Umami or savoriness.

I have to agree with him could see this sauce being used like a Tomato sauce; I had prob­lems not dip­ping my lunch in it as I am writ­ing this, also it may work as a coat­ing when grilling chicken.

Ingredi­ents: Onions, Toma­toes, Mixed Fruit Juice, Soy Sauce, Car­rots, Sugar, Aleppo Flakes, Red Bell Pep­pers, Herbs.

I would like to try the Aleppo Chilli on its own to bet­ter under­stand the fla­vour, must ask Pete to let me have a try next time we meet.

I like ChilliPepperPete’s new image, but this label was a bit hard to read , they are get­ting there, but still a little design and test­ing to go. At £3.50 a bottle, it is not an expens­ive product for such a unique taste.

This sauce does not bite or kick, and it is an ideal intro­duc­tion to artisan sauce mak­ing. Tar­geted at the chil­dren of Chilli Headz to get them used to big fla­vours, it is most defi­antly not a sweet sticky chilli sauce, it is much more interesting.

You can order this on-line at www.chillipepperpete.com

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By Darth Naga, February 4, 2010 5:42 pm

Dragons Breath

Its a Wed­nes­day even­ing, i’ve just fin­ished work only to get home and real­ise that i’ve been a little slack and must do a sauce review, then of course the dif­fi­culty comes in choos­ing what sauce to review, a quick look through past reviews and future bottles in front of me leads me to notice that I have’nt covered a sauce from the “Chilli Pep­per Com­pany” for a while, so here it is! Ged at the Chilli Pep­per Com­pany is mad north­erner who delights in two things:

1. Mak­ing very tasty homemade sauces using the freshest ingredi­ents for every­one to enjoy.
2. Attempt­ing to kill me by way of the hot­test sauces he can muster up.

Thank­fully this is one of the former for a change, but don’t be fooled its not all fluffy pil­lows and candy floss, not in my world baby!!

Ingredi­ents: toma­toes, fresh bhut jolokia, vin­egar, onions, apricots, apple, lemon juice, mus­tard, gar­lic, thyme, basil, turmeric.

(Review bottle kindly sup­plied by Ged over at www.chileseeds.co.uk)

“Dragon’s Breath” is a sauce that on first pick­ing up I hon­estly did’nt think would be that hot, even though Jolokia’s are on the list of ingredi­ents there were plenty of other ingredi­ents that I was sure would bring the heat down a couple of notches, per­haps even till it was barely notice­able.. I was wrong.

The bottle is one of the usual 140ml glass bottles that most of CPC’s sauces come in, this one is adorned with another of their high qual­ity glossy labels, with the name of the sauce, the web­site and a blue dragon breath­ing fire on the front. It calls itself a “Deadly Hot Carib­bean Chilli Sauce” but I was’nt put off by this as alot of “Carib­bean” sauces claim to be “really hot” but they are’nt! The sauce inside is quite a bright yel­low with col­our­ful flecks of black, red, green and white mov­ing about as i gave the bottle a good shake.

I popped the cap and took a big sniff of the con­tents, straight off I could smell vin­egar, apricots, gar­lic and mus­tard.. which is good as those are on the ingredi­ents list LOL! I grabbed my tast­ing spoon, looked at the bottle for a minute then chuckled and lif­ted the bottle to my lips tak­ing a hearty swig of the stuff within… I soon learned this to be a HEINOUS over­sight on my part and I was about to be taught a valu­able lesson.

Usu­ally i would’nt judge a sauce without tast­ing it, but i saw this one as one of Ged’s milder sauces so I was’nt wor­ried, i knew it would taste damn good, but the heat would’nt be so bad, as expec­ted the fla­vours that hit me instantly were apricot and gar­lic, with a bit of apple, a smat­ter of mus­tard and a hint of jolokia to keep even the most fussy “Fla­vour snobs” happy…then the heat kicked in, I was’nt expect­ing this so of course I lunged for my milk and after tak­ing a large mouth­ful real­ised that this sauce gets it heat from the jolokia, so I should have known bet­ter! It provides a strong burn­ing sen­sa­tion on the tongue, that trans­forms into an intense wave of heat that moves to the back of your throat and stays there for a little while!

Not a sauce to be laughed at, this one provides enough heat to keep hard­core chillinut­terz happy, but the fla­vour is def­in­itely a carib­bean one and cer­tainly tastes bet­ter than alot of sup­posed “carib­bean” sauces that primar­ily use scotch bon­nets, this sauce dares to be a little dif­fer­ent with it use of fiery jolokia pep­per blen­ded bril­liantly with dif­fer­ent fruits to cre­ate a very fruity sauce. You’ll find no extract here as the burn is provided nat­ur­ally by the Jolokias!!

You can buy a bottle right now over at www.chileseeds.co.uk for the low price of £6.50, and at that price i hon­estly have noth­ing more to say except but it, and I prom­ise you won’t regret it!!

Till next we meet my chil­li­friendz, have a hot one and may the sauce be with you!

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