Company Bio
Big Red Kitchen is a small “cottage industry” business, based in Stamullen, County Meath, producing homemade jams, chutneys and baked goods. Our quality ingredients are locally-sourced and pesticide-free where possible. Using produce that is in season and at its best ensures that our products are naturally full of flavour. The entire Big Red Kitchen range is therefore free from artificial colours, flavourings and additives. Our product range is also constantly evolving, and we have new flavours on sale throughout the year. In 2012 all of our products became listed on the Coeliac Society of Ireland’s Approved Food List.
Background
Big Red Kitchen was started by me in 2010, a couple of years after I had moved to Stamullen, County Meath. I was lucky enough to find myself surrounded by an abundance of fruit; some wild and much of it being grown by one of the highest quality fruit farms in Ireland. I started to make jam using this locally-grown produce, and shortly after I started to sell at some local Farmers Markets and Craft Fairs. The reception to the product range was excellent, and I haven’t looked back.
I think what people like about Big Red Kitchen is our philosophy of 100% homemade in Ireland, using high quality ingredients that are sourced locally (wherever possible). I do not add anything artificial to my products, and I have heard it commented many times that my jams “taste the way things used to taste”.
I get to meet a lot of Irish people (and visitors to Ireland) at the Food Festivals, County Shows and local Craft Fairs, and nothing can beat the look on someone’s face when they try my best-selling Raspberry and Vanilla Jam. For me, it makes all of the hard work worthwhile.