The Team
Joyce Gannon (The secret holder)
Les Gannon, the Husband (Bottles and packaging purchaser)
Kemi Gannon, Teenage daughter (Bottling and labeling when she feels like it)
Catherine Gannon, daughter (age 6) (Passing the bottles for labeling.)
6 AM (Usually on a Saturday) Spittalfields Market to buy Scotch Bonnet Chilli and Vegetable Oil.
9 AM washing the chilli includes painstainkingly removing stalks from each pepper and washing. This takes hours.
Then the loving caring preparation will begin at about 2 PM until about 11PM - midnight.
Then the bottles are sterilized for bottling the following day Sunday. Everything is done by hand. It takes a week to complete the process of labeling, sealing and date stamping. Every step brings pleasure and satisfaction. Every crooked label is not seen as imperfection but as uniqueness to the bottle. We still get the same thrill with each batch as we did on that eventful day in November 2007. The look of pleasure on the face of my 6 year old as she passes the bottle over is a picture to behold. Her deep chuckle when mummy sticks the label crookedly so lovely. Just that look of joy is worth all the hard work. Sadly though, she can’t eat very hot chilli, but I am working on it.
We hope you enjoy every drop as much as we enjoy making it. Ntsama Chilli oil and sauce are basically love bottled up waiting to be experienced.
To purchase your own bottle, for that euphoric experience, follow the link
