Tastebud Torture
From spider-inspired venom chilli dip to Reaper- and Naga-packed hot sauces, we feature the spiciest selections burning Kent tastebuds
BIG DICK'S.
ORIGINAL HOT SAUCE
Founded in Maidstone in 2016, Big Dick's is a sauce you will want to put on everything!
Each bottle is packed with tangy, seasoned flavour that will strengthen and enhance everything you eat. It is awesome on wings, tacos, burritos and whatever else you want to cover in it. Chow down on this three out of five chillis heat-rated beauty. Vegan friendly.
(£2.95)
Bigdickshotsauce.com
FIRE & ROAST.
PIRI PIRI TOMATO KETCHUP - HOT
Fire & Roast, a brand created by husband-and-wife team Warren and Isaura, is inspired by the piri piri chillies used in cooking from Isaura’s native Madeira.
Now creating its own hot oils and sauces, Fire & Roast has come up with a banging ketchup – for those who like it hot! Its perfect serve is said to be in a cheddar cheese sandwich!
(£4.95)
fireandroast.com
CARRINGTON.
FLAMING CHUP
A step on from Carrington’s notorious Shut Up Chup, the three-chilli-rated Flaming Chup is a naughty sauce combining Moroccan spices and some of the world’s hottest chillies... including the infamous Reaper chilli.
Versatile and full of flavour, this seriously hot chilli paste can be used in cooking, as a marinade or a condiment, just to add spice and flavour to your food.
Carrington proudly create products 100% free from artificial flavours, but this one comes with a warning: “Please use this paste with care as it really can blow your socks off!”
(£4.00)
carringtonfoods.co.uk
KARIMIX.
NAGA CHILLI SAUCE
An award-winning product, Naga Chilli Sauce from Karimix is an extremely intense heat. To taste it you have to make it past its initial incendiary spice!
Using the Bhut jolokia, or ghost pepper – which was recorded as the world’s hottest chilli in 2007 – the sauce has its roots in Bangladesh and north-east India, and its extract has been used to replace pepper spray in some countries!
Suitable for vegans and also gluten-free, Karimix’s hottest chilli sauce is created at its base in Selling, near Faversham, and comes with a ‘very hot’ rating. You have been warned.
(£2.90)
karimix.myshopify.com
HOT FACE SAUCES.
REAPER EXTREME CHILLI SAUCE
Originating in Tonbridge, Hot Face Sauces has grown to be one of the most recognisable brands in the chilli-sauce game. But with the launch of the Reaper Extreme Chilli Sauce, the game has changed.
Described as “the hottest chilli sauce that Hot Face Sauces produces”, with a heat rating ‘Extreme’, the sauce contains the finest US-grown Carolina Reaper chillies mixed with Scotch Bonnet chillies, tomatoes and a few other bits.
It’s a mere 6.4 million SHU (Scoville units to you and me!), the Reaper Extreme Chilli Sauce is one of the hottest UK-produced chilli sauces on the market today.
(£7.00)
hotfacesauces.co.uk
STEVE’S SCIENTIFIC SAUCE.
VENOM CHILLI SAUCE
Steve’s Scientific Sauce is the leading venom-sauce brand that delivers the wonder of science through chilli sauce.
Steve is the real-life venom expert behind the science of the sauce. The Trinidad chevron spider venom has evolved to activate the same receptors as chillies. This is because hot chilli is painful, and a spider bite that burns deters predators. This combination of nature and science was the inspiration behind Steve’s Scientific Sauce. It is suitable for vegetarians and vegans.
(£6.50)
stevesscientificsauce.com