Finest Artisan Food And Drink Products Now Available From New Online Marketplace

Melted Inside is a new online marketplace featuring the UK’s finest independent artisan food and drinks makers. Consumers will find it much easier to access some of the country’s top small batch producers who haven’t had wide distribution until now. Makers are carefully selected and invited to be included in the Melted Inside online market. Once approved, artisans set up an online “stall” that lists all their products to supply direct to their customers. Many of these makers’ products have won prestigious Great Taste Awards (the world’s largest and most respected food and drink awards).

Founder Candy Bowles says that the concept of Melted Inside originated from her personal frustration of not knowing what food and drink makers are around where she lives. She’s a firm believer that we should know where our food comes from and who makes it. Launching a new marketplace during the lockdown was a leap of faith but the ongoing global pandemic has boosted online food orders to such an extent that there’s a shortage of food delivery slots. New companies like Melted Inside are helping to plug that gap and at the same time are offering more choices of lovingly-made products. Here’s a selection of some of the excellent artisan products available through the new Melted Inside market.

Cardiff-based Earl’s Kitchen owned by father and daughter team, Earl and Charmaine Smikle, offers a great range of Caribbean cooking sauces and chutneys. The Barbados Caribbean Sauce, Earl’s signature product, is a mild coconut Caribbean curry sauce with herbs and tropical flavors that works with any meat, fish or vegetable dish. There is also a vegan version.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Chocolatier Harry Specters produces handmade, preservative-free chocolates in Cambridgeshire, with the help of autistic employees. Aside from the company’s admirable altruistic aspect, the chocolates themselves are excellent and have won numerous awards. With enticing and imaginative flavors such as banana caramel, rose and cardamom, blueberry smoothy, passionfruit and lemongrass – what’s not to like?

Nibblette offers award-winning chocolates created by Shaoni Nandy, a trained pastry chef and professional chocolatier. Shaoni’s Indian heritage and her early years spent growing up in Kuwait inspired spice, Indian, Arabian and Persian flavors. The brand won five Academy of Chocolate awards and five Great Taste accolades in 2020.

Stuart Hann, The Blind Chocolatier, is based in the beautiful Lake District. Stuart started his culinary career as a pastry chef and in 2015, after he was registered as blind, he chose to turn his situation into a positive by setting up his own business as a chocolatier. Enticing treats include white chocolate bars with rhubarb or orange and maple.

Ravi Ollie Pasta, is a Bristol based startup that offers gourmet ravioli, frozen to retain peak freshness. The brand was created by Chef Oliver Greenhalgh who worked in high- end restaurants, including Michelin starred Medlar in London. The range of fillings includes favorites like a classic six-hour cooked beef ragu or squid ink stained king prawn and crayfish plus vegetarian and vegan options such as caramelised pear and goats cheese, jerusalem artichoke and roasted garlic and truffle.

Cheshire-based Riverside Spirits produces gin, vodka, rum and whisky liqueurs in a creative range of flavors. Gluten free and vegan friendly, the liqueurs include rose vodka shimmer liqueur, gunpowder whisky liqueur, fig rum liqueur, passion fruit gin liqueur, sloe gin liqueur and many more.

Just Because Treats, founded by Venezuelan- born Jennifer Munson-Montanez, offers moreish alfajores biscuits, the ideal afternoon treat. The popular dulce de leche sandwich biscuits are gluten-free as they’re made with cornflour. As well as the original dulche de leche version, the range includes lemon and lime, hazelnut ganache with pistachio, raspberries and white chocolate and salted caramel.

Melted Inside is a member of the Good Market, a curated, global community of social enterprises, cooperatives, responsible businesses, voluntary initiatives, networks, and changemakers.

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