Chef Brown Sauce

Chef Brown Sauce is an Irish brand of brown sauce. It was first produced by the company "Chef" in the middle of the 20th century. The ingredients include; Vinegar, Sugar, Apples, Barley Malt Vinegar, Water, Tomatoes, Modified Maize Starch, Oranges, Salt, Spices, and Colour: Caramel (E150D). The sauce is gluten free.

Chef Brown Sauce

Type	Brown sauce
Place of origin	Ireland
Invented	1921 (1921)

History of brown sauce

Brown sauce is a dark colored, savoury sauce created in the United Kingdom in the 1800s. The ingredients include dates, molasses, tamarinds, tomatoes, cloves, and cayenne pepper.^[1] The sauce was popular during the winter months with hearty meals like stew and beef.^[2]

About Chef

The Chef brand was originally established in 1921 with a variety of products from pickles to Barbeque sauce.^[3] The original producer of these products was "Willwoods", which began by making vinegar and barbeque sauces throughout Ireland.^[4]

Irish people began to use Chef sauces in recipes, and this habit it was passed down from generation to generation.^[5] At some point, production of the Chef brand products was moved out of Ireland and it wasn't until 2015, after ValeoFood had taken over the brand, that the company was then reestablished in Ireland. During this time, Valeo released a new model of bottle for the Chef brand to celebrate its return to Ireland.^[6]

ValeoFood Group

ValeoFoods is an Irish-based company.^[7]

In popular culture

In the 2003 film Intermission, grocery store employees John and Oscar rob a warehouse of a crate of Chef Brown Sauce and spend the rest of the movie trying to finish off all the sauce. They pour it into their tea, make Chef sandwiches, etc.^[8]