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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...
lukeathompson
Mar 10, 20242 min read
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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....
lukeathompson
Mar 7, 20241 min read
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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...
lukeathompson
Mar 4, 20241 min read
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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...
lukeathompson
Feb 28, 20241 min read
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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...
lukeathompson
Feb 24, 20242 min read
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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...
lukeathompson
Feb 18, 20242 min read
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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...
lukeathompson
Feb 15, 20241 min read
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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 -...
lukeathompson
Feb 14, 20241 min read
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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)....
lukeathompson
Feb 11, 20242 min read
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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...
lukeathompson
Feb 11, 20242 min read
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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...
lukeathompson
Feb 10, 20243 min read
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