bird's eye
Feb 17, 2020
ChilliBOM Red Box Autumn 2020
The All-Rounder Edition
In this edition we feature three hot sauces that can best described as great all-rounders – hot sauces made to be used anywhere and everywhere. We start with the amazing Secret Aardvark hot sauce from Portland where ChilliBOM is proud to now be the official Australian distributor of the brand. We then have the mouth-watering Basketcase Gourmet Firestarter from Melbourne made using seven different kinds of chilli and then there is the small batch rich-tomato Brisbane heat bomb that is Jose Montezuma. These are made to be used anywhere and everywhere so happy pouring!
Feb 17, 2020
[REVIEW] Basketcase Gourmet Firestarter Hot Sauce
If you just go off the ingredient list you would be mistaken in thinking that this is a simply made hot sauce but there in lies its beauty and the inherent cleverness in its creator Kate. Basketcase Gourmet Firestarter is blend of 7 different chillies so your whole mouth is hit at once with a moreish chilli heat.
Aug 14, 2019
[REVIEW] The Chilli Effect Wizard's Lingering Burn
The inclusion of this hot sauce in the Spring 2019 Red Box is a long time coming! We started talking about it in late 2016 and the issue was that the bottle is too big for the ChilliBOM Red Box was built to hold the regular 150ml hot sauce bottles. So we tossed around a few ideas and then it got too hard then just decided over a beer one day not to even put it in the box and send it separately outside the box...pretty smart hey...well it shouldn't have taken almost 3 years to work it out! What really matters was getting this sauce in the hands of the ChilliBOMers as it is a cracking hot sauce.
May 16, 2019
ChilliBOM Winter 2019 Red Box
The ‘Dimension’ edition Red Box features 3 hot sauces across the taste spectrum – savoury, smoky, sweet(ish) and all with a good dose of heat! We have an example of a sauce that uses a few simple ingredients to create layers of flavour to another that uses an abundance of ingredients to create a sauce with an intense depth of flavour and lastly a sauce that use a whole different “cooking” process to create dimension and complexity.
May 16, 2019
[Review] The Ferm Hot Sauce
The capsicum and chilli are definitely the heroes, each combining to give it a very earthy flavour, this then is finished off with a little hit of lime. The heat builds at the back of the throat and has a nice lingering burn thanks to the Ghost Pepper.
Nov 15, 2018
[REVIEW] Chilli Seed Bank Ghost Pepper Sauce
Ghost Pepper Sauce
As the creator of the World’s Hottest Corn Chips, Mick is not shy of adding some heat and he has d...
Nov 15, 2018
[REVIEW] Basbaas Katra's Spicy Sauce
Katra's Spicy Sauce
Katra hails originally from Somalia, she arrived in Australia as a teenager, but before that she ...
Nov 15, 2018
ChilliBOM Summer 2018 Red Box
The "Patch of Zing" Edition
This quarter the ChilliBOM Red Box features 3 hot sauces with origins stemming from 3 dif...
Sep 15, 2018
[REVIEW] Agent 80 Hot Sauce
Agent 80 Hot Sauce has been created by Jason, an ex-bartender who has blended chilli, lime and vinegar in a magnificent way, and managed to take a traditional hot sauce blend and deliver something completely different. We recently met in Perth were he described to me his vision for all natural products and ingredients and gave me a sneak peek of an upcoming new project he is working on...very tasty!
Aug 30, 2018
[REVIEW] The Chilli Project Signature Blend Hot Sauce
The Chilli Project Signature Blend Hot Sauce
This hot sauce was first launched in late 2017 and can be best described...
Aug 26, 2018
Birdseye Chilli the red gem of South East Asia
Birdseye Chilli Pepper
This is THE chilli pepper of Southeast Asia. The Bird’s Eye Chilli is a key ingredient in many southeast asian dishes and is often referred to simply as the Red Thai Chilli Pepper due to its role in Thai cuisine.
Scoville scale (SHUs)
50,000 to 100,000 SHUs
Claim to Fame
Extensively used in South-East Asia
Aug 19, 2018
ChilliBOM Spring 2018 Red Box
The Whippersnapper Edition
This quarter ChilliBOM went on the hunt to unearth some BRAND NEW Aussie-made hot sauces and we found some stunners, we have featured 2 here and they are both less than a year old! We then got duly Smacked in the Arse by a 17-year hot sauce veteran who told us to pull our heads in and reminded us that the hot sauce culture in Australia has been alive and well for a long time.