Thanks for asking me to take part Stu! I’m Jade Dawson (hence the JD!) - founder of the new (ish) spicy golden nectar JD’s Hot Honey. I oversee everything to do with the products, marketing, sales, distribution and operations. Basically, spinning a lot of plates at same time - ahh!

Gotta be the bad boy younger brother, our habanero infused XXTRA hot honey. The hotter the better for me. If my throat isn’t on fire, it isn’t hot enough!

We want to keep bringing this new sweet heat to as many people as possible. It’s something I discovered myself the last couple of years and it's changed all my favourite foods. It’s still a relatively new thing, it’s always a pleasant surprise, not everyone knows about it so we want to take it to as many people throughout the UK and Europe and also develop new flavours, new infusions and some exciting new products.

We’ve been going for about a year and half. We started during lockdown just because I got my husband an Ooni pizza oven for his Birthday, we were making pizza every other night and using the grill when the weather was good, we started playing around with different pizza toppings, grilled meats, we’ve always used honey loads in our food, we love spicy food so combined them together and made our own batch. I’d always used BBQ sauce but this HH was another level. Our friends and family enjoyed it, they started using it and we realised there was appetite for this new sweet heat sauce so set up the business.

Food - hands down homemade pepperoni pizza from the pizza oven (Friday night ritual at our house) with a few little picky plates, olives, artichokes, homemade coleslaw, oh and you can’t go wrong with some loaded dirty fries too on the side.

Rub - Angus & Oink Fools Gold and our fave

Sauce… come onnnnnn JD’s baby!

I worked for a Tea company doing Marketing so had lots of experience in the world of Food & Drink but that was not where my passion was. I absolutely love this business.

Give every person who shares this blog post for you a mil.

I’ve the shortest attention span in the world, put a movie on and I’m asleep. Saying that, anything with Will Ferrel in keeps me awake. I’m all for comedy (love James Acaster) and series like Ozark. There was a deep void in my life when that finished. Music - is it wrong to say Steps, Backstreet Boys and Boyzone?!!!

To be able to travel anywhere in the world in seconds. Do you remember Bernards Watch? He could stop time with his little pocket watch. He was a bit of a legend. That one too.

Personally, it would be taking the plunge into the business world on my own.

Business wise 100% partnering with Ooni who are the reason I started the business in the first place so it's great to be aligned with them now.

Try and keep my two young crazy boys alive. You’ll usually find me breaking up a fight as one looked at the other ha! No spare time these days.

You know what it has to be don’t you… Drizzle, Drench, Devour, of course! I don't go easy on the sauce these days.

Keeping it simple, but it’s just next level. We love the Fat Hippo chain. We recently had our hot honey on their April specials, their JD’s Hot Honey burger served with their JD’s Hot Honey and our chunky Jalapeño Flake and candied bacon vanilla milkshake - insanely good, believe it or not!

check it out here!

I’m a bit of a wimp I’m afraid but I can tell you that my hangover go to is super noodles with grated cheese on toast! That’s pretty strange (don’t judge me)