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Habanero and lime chicken cous cous
More often than not us hot sauce fans tend to assign sauces to meals rather than basing meals around a sauce, but that's not always the case. Sometimes I try a sauce and immediately my mind starts...
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A Naga sauce that can rescue friendships.
At the risk of this blog looking like it's sponsored by Cottage Delight I'm going to write about yet another one of their sauces. For a company that appears to make a bewildering array of disparate...
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Melis pickled jalapeños peppers - reviewed.
You may wonder why in additional to rabbiting on about hot sauce I'm now talking about pickled jalapeños. Why on earth does that puzzle you? It's all part of the same glorious tongue-tingling world...
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Chula hot sauce
Chula may be not how you know this hot sauce brand, and that's because of course the correct spelling is in fact c h o l u l a. As with a lot of things in my life I somehow accidentally start calling...
View ArticleWANTED - Taco Bell Fire hot sauce in the UK
Taco Bell doesn't exist here in the UK, and on the whole I'm not too bother by the lack of 'TB' in the UK. Taco Bell is a huge American franchise that is to Mexican food what Pizza Hut is to Italian...
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Rectum Ripper XXX 1/2 - review
Rectum Ripper XXX1/2 was on my Amazon wishlist for years as a joke item. It was basically there so that if my mum looked at my wishlist prior to a birthday or Christmas she'd see the name of this hot...
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Royale Howlin' Hot Burger - East Coast Diner
The East Coast Diner in Woodbridge appears to be almost universally loved by everyone in Suffolk, at least that's the way it appears to be if you look at the number of 'likes' they have on Facebook,...
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Holkum Hot Sauce - with Norwich mustard!
Hot sauce isn't a topic that often leaves my consciousness, and even although I'm technically on holiday this week my hot sauce radar never takes time off. A couple of days ago while doing the...
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Baktat Jalapeños
It's curious that I manage to find so much variance between different types of pickled jalapenos that I can actually write plenty of reviews about a pepper that is in the bigger scheme of things quite...
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Chilli Drops - Smoky Naga
The biggest challenge presented to a sauce being tested here at Hot Sauce UK headquarters is the 'substrate' used to accompany it. The test taste for the 'Smoky Naga' by Chilli Drops of London Town...
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VOODOO CHILE - Notes from the 2nd annual New York Hot Sauce Expo
We started this food blog to focus on the hot sauces available here in the UK, so it might surprise you to see some reports from across the pond. Our mate Buzz is living in New York and offered to...
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Chilli Drops - BollyGood
The fact that the bottle is half-empty after two doses should give you an idea of how we feel about this hot sauce straight off the bat. A quick quint at the label tells the tale of a sauce trying to...
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The highlights - Notes from the 2nd annual New York Hot Sauce Expo
Another great report from Buzz (our Englishman abroad). Click 'ere to read his first report from the 2nd annual New York Hot Sauce Expo...STATESIDE SPICENotes from the 2nd annual New York Hot Sauce...
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Chilango 100% Habanero Chillis Chilli Sauce
Chilango have won awards for making the best burritos in London, and you know what? They deserve them. In other posts on this blog I've ranted about English restaurants making American and Mexican...
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The top five - Notes from the 2nd annual New York Hot Sauce Expo
Another great report from Buzz (our Englishman abroad). Click 'ere to read his first report from the 2nd annual New York Hot Sauce Expo...STATESIDE SPICENotes from the 2nd annual New York Hot Sauce...
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Tabasco cheese snacks remind me of childhood illnesses.
I snuck these Tabasco snacks into the trolley when I spotted them on a recent trip to Waitrose. I had assumed they would be sort of cheesy biscuits with a hint of Tabasco. I was wrong, after I'd...
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East Coast Diner - INTERVIEW
A few weeks back I gave a bit of a rave review to an astonishingly good burger I had from The East Coast Diner in Woodbridge (Suffolk). Well one thing led to another and after getting in touch with...
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Smash & Grab at The Chilli Farm in Suffolk
I just had a meeting with a prospective client at the brilliant Chilli Farm in Suffolk and in addition to gaining a new client I also grabbed some smashing hot sauces and ephemera.Left to right:Cottage...
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Smoky Chipotle Chilli Sauce - The Cambridge Chilli Sauce Co. does it again!
Good chipotle sauces are not that easy to get right; they're either utterly pointless (like the Heinz 'effort') or a bit too dark in taste, and backed up by too much heat.This Smoky Chipotle sauce from...
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Chilli Sauce - local boy done good!
This was supposed to be a post showing you my new improved 'shelf of pain', and while I'm still keen to show you how the recent subsidence repairs on my house have allowed me to install a larger shelf...
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I went to Raja Stores in Ipswich and I bought...
On of my favourites sources (sic) for chilli sauces is Raja Storesin Ipswich. Here's my little haul from today's visit:Lets go at this left to right:Sriracha, I've got plenty, so this is for my...
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I met a chilli sauce hero at Hyde Hall!
Today I dragged my ever-tolerant family to the Chilli weekend at RHS Hyde Hall in Essex, my wife is a professional gardener and Royal Horticultural Society member so I have to be honest and admit the...
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I went to the Chilli Farm (again) and bought...
A couple of weeks ago myself and my good lady razzed up the A140 in search chuckles and whatnot in Norfolk, as is LAW in this house the journey demanded a stop off at the Chilli Farm in Mendlesham. We...
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Diced chili chipotle - Cool Chile Co
Now this product clearly isn't a sauce, but there's more to this world than chilli sauces! This gorgeous little tin was bought for me as a gift and other than the dried chilies I'd previous bought...
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Hot Burrito Sauce - Capsicana Chilli Co Ltd
While ambling around the fabulous Bakers and Larners (proper old-fashioned) department store in Holt (Norfolk) I found a small range of chilli sauces by a Hitchin company called Capsicana Chilli Co...
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