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REVIEW: Queen Majesty - Scotch Bonnet & Ginger
My first celebrity hot sauce. This one was on the popular YouTube show Hot Ones, which might be why this is the most expensive sauce I’ve...
lukeathompson
May 4, 20242 min read
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REVIEW: Trodden Black - The Heretic / Armageddon
After loving Trodden Black’s Sea Buckthorn & Habanero I thought I’d try another of theirs, The Heretic. The cover art on this one is...
lukeathompson
May 2, 20242 min read
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Making Mistakes, Potting On & the Supercharged Annuum
I give very good advice, but I very seldom follow it. I find myself making some basic mistakes. Mistakes I know not to make and have made...
lukeathompson
Apr 29, 20243 min read
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REVIEW - Great Scott Hot Sauce - Cajun Komodo Dragon
After adding their Peach and Habanero to my list of favourites I was looking forward to this one. It’s a very thick sauce - the colour...
lukeathompson
Apr 27, 20241 min read
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REVIEW - Trodden Black - Sea Buckthorn & Habanero
This is a special sauce. It’s bright orange and a good consistency, with flakes of what I think are seaweed, and it smells unlike any...
lukeathompson
Apr 24, 20242 min read
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REVIEW - Burning Desire - Peppapot
Habaneros, coconut, ginger, lime and garlic. This is good! Coconut and lime do a lot of the obvious heavy lifting, but that background of...
lukeathompson
Apr 21, 20242 min read
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Out with the Toad, in with the Douche: Transplanting Jalapenos
The cat has moved into the greenhouse. I’m dropping hints, like putting in preparatory bamboo cane stakes, but he just curls himself...
lukeathompson
Apr 21, 20243 min read
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REVIEW - Three Chipotle Hot Sauces
I’m invested in this one. I’ve got some Jalapenos growing and hope I’ll be able to find a way to smoke them later in the year to make...
lukeathompson
Apr 18, 20242 min read
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REVIEW - Pip's Hot Sauce - Boca del Diablo
This is Pip’s original and classic sauce. Immediate smell of red peppers when you open the bottle, and it’s a nice bright orangey red...
lukeathompson
Apr 17, 20241 min read
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Seedlings Up / Heat Mat Out / Fungus Gnats In:
All the seeds are up so yesterday I took out the heat mat and we’re just relying on the Cornish weather now. Yesterday that meant...
lukeathompson
Apr 15, 20243 min read
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Hot Sauce Design 1: Death and Rectal Malfunction
A leading marketing strategy of hot sauce companies is reminding the consumer that their sauce might cause painful diarrhoea. Wiltshire...
lukeathompson
Apr 12, 20244 min read
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REVIEW: South Devon Chilli Farm - Cherry Bomb / Orange Habanero (two sauces)
This is such a great idea. If you want to know what different pepper varieties taste like, this is the range for you. They’re so simple,...
lukeathompson
Apr 8, 20243 min read
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REVIEW: Great Scott - Peach & Habanero
Love this! I’d never heard of this company before and thought they were up the other end of the world in Scotland, but apparently they’re...
lukeathompson
Apr 4, 20241 min read
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On Worms
Now I am terrified at the Earth, it is that calm and patient, It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions, It turns harmless and...
lukeathompson
Apr 1, 20243 min read
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REVIEW - Cornish Smoke Squad - The Smoky One
This company has nailed the branding, I think. The regional foodie will not be put off this, but there’s a definite illustrative design...
lukeathompson
Apr 1, 20242 min read
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REVIEW: Wiltshire Chilli Company - Fruity Chilli Sauce
After a couple of weeks of heavier reviews this one's pretty straightforward. Dark and thick and sweet with no heat to speak of, this is...
lukeathompson
Mar 29, 20241 min read
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REVIEW: Tubby Tom's - Squealer
Passing through Gloucester Services recently I noticed local producer Tubby Tom’s and picked up a couple of sauces. This one’s their...
lukeathompson
Mar 26, 20242 min read
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Bigger is not better - a lesson learned on germination
I’ve learned a lesson for speedier germination and I will definitely have Orange Habanero plants to give away now! With that last lot of...
lukeathompson
Mar 22, 20242 min read
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REVIEW: Cornish Chillies - Jamaican Gold
This sauce is named in celebration of the Cornish connection to Jamaica - in particular the Methodists and miners - and to commemorate...
lukeathompson
Mar 22, 20244 min read
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REVIEW - Pip's Hot Sauce - Black Mass
Perfect example of the skull-and-menace aesthetic and the crossover between hot sauce and heavy metal. Also a perfect example of the...
lukeathompson
Mar 18, 20242 min read
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