About us

2021

In 2021, a group of friends decided to have a chilli growing competition. Without really thinking ahead, I set about growing Carolina Reapers. This was more successful than expected leaving me with a huge crop of exceedingly hot chillies.

The only solution was to make some chilli sauces, so the journey to make sauces started. I wanted to create something which wasn’t shy on heat, but offered far more depth than just a ‘blow your head off’ chilli hit.

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2022

Given how satisfying making the sauces was another chilli crop was planted, adding Lemon Chilli to the mix and somehow another bumper crop occurred. My recipes were tweaked, and this time the surplus bottles were kept for the kids’ Christmas fair. An unofficial stall was set up and my marketing department (the kids) went to work. Sales, again for charity, were excellent as was the feedback.

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2023

The third year of growing chillies and despite the natural ability to kill most plants I do seem to have a knack for chillies. This year the crop was later and the first batch of sauces were made as gifts for the crew of an am-dram production I was in.

The second, much bigger batch, was made for the kids’ school fair again. This time I was a formal stall holder and I had about 150 bottles in 6 different varieties to sell.

Amazingly most did indeed sell. In fact one parent sent out an all school message to track down my sauces – they bought 10 bottles as Christmas presents!

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2024

A busy start to the year meant I missed the planting window for chillies, so perhaps that was it. As it turned out a gap between jobs presented itself, and when a contract fell through meant I had more time off than expected, several people suggested it was time to sell my chilli sauces…I’d already given a few names some thought and given a degree in Chemistry and the alchemy that goes behind a good sauce, Potion Sauces was born!

Our Flavours

How we make our sauces

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The Process…

How does the magic happen?

The trouble with how I’d previously made the sauces is that the recipes were somewhat impressionistic – all very creative but not reproducible! So, the first step was to recreate them on a small scale and weigh all the ingredients properly to perfect each recipe. Once finalised a spreadsheet was then used to industrialise the quantities and my massive cauldron was put to use.

Try our sauces

If you like the sound of what Potion Sauces is all about and you would like to try one, or several, of our amazing sauces please order below...you will not be disappointed.

Pass the potion now!