Great British Food Awards 2025 Finalists!

There's a lesson in here for all of us, really. 

When we started this daft little experiment (all because a friend told us the sauce we were making as a hobby was his favourite), we were a little sceptical about whether people would actually pay us for it. 

Then we slowly started to experiment with more flavours, taking Bampot as our initial 'medium' sauce, and building out a milder one (Feartie), and a hotter one (Roaster). Then we went a little nuts, and over the next 8 months we came up with 4 more flavours, to our current range of 7.

And people still come and try them at our stalls at farmers markets and festivals, and very often buy them too. That's the REAL feedback for us - real people coming back and telling us they love our flavours.

But, it's also very gratifying when we get feedback from industry experts that they like our stuff. And now we've got not one but two flavours of our sauces in the finals of the Great British Food Awards 2025 - Feartie and Stoater. We need to wait until the end of October to find out what we win, by which point we'll probably have no fingernails left!

So, when you have those moments when you think 'I'm not good enough', we hear you - but you can also tell yourself 'Why not me? Why couldn't it be me being successful? If I don't try, I'll never find out.' Jump in - give it a go!