Probably already mentioned on this thread, but Im quite a fan of the tabasco habanero sauce. I sent a tweet to tobasco "complaining" about their leaky bottles, because I was onto my third bottle in about 6 weeks.
I like to grow my own chillies, though Ive put that on hold for now as I'll be moving house sometime in the new year. As soon as I have a decent crop again I'm going to have a go at making my own sauce.
That looks good. I think I'll go make some for gifting this year.
Made another batch of this. Used 5 x habaneros instead of 10. 10 would be far too hot.
Its great on nearly everything though, eggs, tacos, wraps, sambos, wings, ribs, spatchcock chicken
Yeah, I agree with you. The mixed is decent, a bit fruity, but the chilli one has a lot of the sour mustardy flavours that I love.
Oh, for Indian pickles, check out the Mayil brand. I haven't bought any yet (not available in the city centre here), but I had one of their onion pickles in a get-together meal in the home of one of my friends from Kerala. Really nice, not so much hot but salty and tasty!
On your "recommendation" I went and got some of the mixed pickle (Patak's). I've had it before but not for a few years, asked a local shop and they got it in for me. Tried a spoonful of it and thought it was a bit salty which is exactly how I remembered it. Decided it wasn't that great but thought I better try some more to check..... you know where this is going... a couple of hours later I'd tried over half the jar. Think I must like it?
Still can't beat that chille pickle, it has just so many things right about the flavours.
That one is so good. It makes a nice addition to spinach. I added plenty of garlic here, with golden raisins and mixed nuts.
Mic's 30% off until midnight on Monday: https://www.micschilli.com/#black-friday
This has arrived, and it has that typical fruity wonky flavour of habanero, followed by a slow but strong build of heat from the added capsaicin. I tested just two drops. Nice!
My son another chilli addict brought home some Wilshire Farms Firemite and Mild Chilli Jam
Not keen on the Jam but the Marmite with added chilli is definitely not to bad but I think I'll stick to traditional Marmite.
I wouldn't expect a mango pickle to carry much heat; I usually use Geeta's. Nice flavour. Might pick up the Lidl one to try 👍️
Just tried some Lidl deluxe mango pickle. It has a two out of three red chilies on the scale on the label and I wouldn't have said it had any heat in it all ;-( Think I've brandjacked my taste buds :-( Was a good mango pickle though!
Picked up the 3 tongue tied sauces in MM at lunch, for €18. Saucy, but what the hell. Shopping local.
Got to taste them while there.
Jalapeño and apple - not too hot, probably nice with cheese.
Red chilli and orange - bit hotter, lovely orange coming through.
Habanero- hottest, but still OK. Not sure about it regarding flavour. Possibly best at adding to cooking rather than a condiment.
So far, can see myself repeat buying the red chilli and orange.
Sorry, don't know. Might be worth a phonecall or email. They're worth it.
Does he sell to any other SV stores?
It’s funny. I can’t Fahy see there being a massive mainstream market for hot sauce here as yet. It’s definitely improving but I presume many producers have got sauce as one part of a range of sauces and chutneys etc. Mic and Rebel are the only companies I know doing dedicated hot sauce only though they do bbq sauces too. I’m fairly much a try anything type but I always end up with hot sauce sitting in the fridge as I don’t get to use it often enough and she are very hot so you need to be in the mood for it too.
To tie in with the small scale local sauce production, and a curry sauce range.
A few weeks ago I saw Mr. Athula at a stand in Supervalu Carrigaline. He was promoting his range of sauces, which he makes in Carrigaline. I tried the Jalfrezi sauce and was blown away. Really nice and easy to use. Once the jar is open for a day in the fridge, it heats up a bit more. I've just had a lunch by cooking noodles, and just stirring in a few spoons in and heat up. I also use it as a standard curry sauce, with fried jackfruit and veg. My wife doesn't like heat, so has tried the Korma, which is also very nice.
He persuaded me to try his tomato sauce (I never use tomato sauce), and it was really different, with a hint of heat, cloves and cinnamon. I came away with a jar.
And he was an all-round nice guy! We had a great chat about chillies , Sri Lanka etc.
So, if you get a chance, pick up a jar of Jalfrezi and/or the others, to try, and support local produce.
I have the Batts on the table next to me, I tried it once and haven't got around to putting it in the bin yet.
I suspect the Deluxe one is the same as the Italiamo although they can be slightly different between batches. Had one jar that was incredibly hot.
Edit> The Deluxe one is in Lidl atm.
Is that the same as the Italiamo brand? That is good. The regular, Batt's brand is not worth buying IMHO.
Again bucking the trend and not a sauce but I can recommend Lidls Delux GROUND RED CHILLI PEPPERS IN 42% EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL.
Just had a large bowl of boring noodles which was brought to life with a heaped tea spoon or two of the above.
That's what I mean, unless you get that lucky break and big investment and expansion, I don't think it's really a viable business for many. I can't see many small producers surviving as small producers.
I really don't know how you'd know that many new Irish sauce companies are doing well. There existence isn't, necessarily, a sign of success - just that they haven't given up yet. I could well be wrong about this but I guess time will tell. I wonder have many come and gone yet? Every food market has someone new trying to flog their special relishes and sauces. Some aren't great and most are pretty generic. Small scale food production is extremely difficult to make money from.
Not here no, not yet. They do in America. And Mexico. No issue dumping an entire bottle on some BBQ wings or ribs. In a lot of states every restaurant and diner has a few bottles of hot sauce on the table.
I guess the dream is to do a Levi Roots. Fairly generic sauce and hes worth 30m or something. Rebel Chili is in Tesco now too.
A lot of the new Irish sauce companies seem to be doing well. Its a relatively easy and small production.
Most of them seem to be from Cork.
Deals with retailers only last until another competitor woos the supermarket with a better deal.
It just seems to me that of all the new business ideas that people are rushing into, this one, to me, seems particularly difficult to successfully monetise.
I think (?) Rebel Chilli were the first Irish producer. Now they have loads of competitors and more and more imports. I wonder how they are doing, now?
Also, hot sauce, for most people is a very occasional buy. It's not like most people go through a bottle every couple of weeks.
100%. But fluke a deal with a big retailer and it could be quids in.
Unfortunately, as a lot of small food producers find out, something being cheap and easy to make does not mean it's easy to make money from it.
Breaking into markets to sustain your little industry is extremely hard. Doing fairs and markets doesn't, generally pay. You need expansion and investment to actually make money and that comes with risk.
And when I say, "make money", I mean cover wages and other overheads and stay afloat - not become rich.
thanks. Thats the one .I bought it by mistake instead of the Buffalo Wings type and it was nicer
Yeah its the new pulled pork.
Huge market in America though so as tastes change here there'll be more of a market for it. Its really easy and fairly cheap to do.
I can't get over how many people are getting into making hot sauce. Sounds like a very hard way to make money, to me and getting harder with more entrants every year. I wonder how many Irish hot sauces there are now?
Red Hot is the brand name. I was referring to the Original variety.
https://www.franksredhot.com/en-au/products/franks-redhot-original-cayenne-pepper-sauce
I have the Jalapeño & Apple, very tasty, not very hot at all, I recommend it!
Re Tongue tied,
I'll nip down to the Marina Market on Friday to sample them.
Looks promising.
