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lukeathompson
Mar 102 min read
REVIEW: Singularity Sauce Co. - Pi-Ro
Okay, I don’t understand Singularity’s rating system. The 7-Pot was a 4 out of 5 in their heat rating and this is just one point down - a...
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lukeathompson
Mar 71 min read
REVIEW: Wiltshire Chilli Company - Golden Bonnet
Ah, this is good. You can smell the hot peppers as soon as you open the bottle - a sharpness heightened by the acid of the pineapple....
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lukeathompson
Mar 41 min read
REVIEW: Cornish Chillies - Tomm Sows
The name means 'hot sauce' in Cornish. I like the name more than the sauce, which tastes medicinal to me. I keep returning to it in the...
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lukeathompson
Feb 281 min read
REVIEW: Singularity Sauce Co. - 7-Pot Pineapple
This is a serious sauce, and probably the best packaging I’ve seen so far. The hot pink and the shimmery silver foiling are immediately...
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lukeathompson
Feb 242 min read
REVIEW: Singularity Sauce Co. - Everyday Hot Sauce
Singularity is a company from Aberdeen with a really interesting range of sauces. I’ve picked up a handful and want to start with the...
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lukeathompson
Feb 182 min read
REVIEW: Bumblebee Cottage - Delab 'ole
Ah okay, this is much softer than the last Bumblebee Cottage sauce. Only three chillies out of five on this one. Rusty orange in colour...
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lukeathompson
Feb 151 min read
REVIEW: The Garlic Farm - Vampire Slayer
Quite a pale sauce and apparently made from cayennes, so there’s none of the posturing of some of the other sauces that list their...
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lukeathompson
Feb 141 min read
REVIEW: Cornish Smoke Squad - The Fruity One
I love this. In appearance it is smooth, thick and bright yellow. It swells sweet and the two key ingredients are immediately clear -...
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lukeathompson
Feb 112 min read
REVIEW: Bumblebee Cottage - Fiyah in D'Bole
I found this one in our local grocers, up at the Beacon in Bodmin. It’s made nearby, at Delabole (where the poet Philip Gross was born)....
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lukeathompson
Feb 112 min read
REVIEW: Spice Island Chilli - Ghost Ship
The label scares me. It markets itself as a super-hot hot sauce and the Ghost Ship name is not just a nod to the HMS Eurydice wrecked off...
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lukeathompson
Feb 103 min read
Haunted by Hot Sauce
I am haunted by a hot sauce. Years ago, I worked in an organic grocery shop in Wales. One of our suppliers was a small scale chutney...
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