The name comes from the fact that there are 10 Bhut Jalokia pods in each jar, and that immediately gets me worried. Turning the bottle over and reading the ingredients list eases my worries, as I read Roasted Tomato, Roasted Garlic, Roasted red pepper, Brown Sugar, Molasses, Lime juice, Cider vinegar, black pepper, Rosemary, and salt to accompany the Bhut pods.
The sauce is thick and a lovely browny red colour and smells of predominantly roasted fruit with a lime undertone and of course, the distinctive aroma of the Ghost Pepper.
I figure that to get the full effect of this sauce I am going to have to do a Darth Naga, and take a full spoon of the sauce to test. Here goes....
Sweet and rich with bags of fruit but surprisingly not that hot at first. I held the sauce in my mouth for a full 30 seconds before swallowing and the heat was very bearable...OK now we are a minute into the test and the heat is building to a nice level. I obviously have a good burn on the tongue and the roof of the mouth and the lips, but the level of heat is not making me reach for the Cravendale. 3 minutes and the heat is subsiding a little with a nice garlicky bhut jalokia aftertaste. I just ate a little cream cheese and the burn on the roof of the mouth reignited which is most odd.
Fully 5 minutes now and no sweating and hiccuping that would have been a given if this had been an extract sauce. In fact the only effect to give away the fact that I have eaten a teaspoon of Bhut sauce has been a bit of a runny nose.
In conclusion, this is a great flavoured all natural sauce which is a superb heat level for those fairly new to Chilli Sauce wanting to step it up to the next level, and for the dedicated chilliheads, it wuld make a great table sauce.
Whatever category you fall into, at £4.50 for a sauce of this quality you can't go wrong.
Come on down and try out the "10" Ghost Pepper sauce for yourself and whilst here you could taste the other great products from the Cambridge Chilli Farm
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