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How To Make Hot Sauce From Dried Peppers
Hot sauce can be made using many different ingredients and processes, but one common element is the spiciness that comes from a hot pepper. The form of pepper is either fresh with some form of processing or a dried pepper reconstituted with some form of liquid. Hot sauce can be made from dried peppers that…
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How to Check the pH of Hot Sauce
Determining the pH level for hot sauce has become the focus of many people who make hot sauce. This is to ensure the product is shelf stable for weeks or months at a time. Unlike taste testing, pH testing cannot be done with a simple visual examination of the hot sauce. The pH of hot…
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Best Blenders for Hot Sauce…and why!
MAKE EAT SELL I have made a lot of hot sauce and have burned through a lot of blenders doing it…literally! Some last longer than others and some seem like they are built to last a week. We put together this guide so you don’t need to waste time trying every blender until you find…
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How To Preserve Hot Sauce Without Vinegar
Hot sauce can be preserved without the use of vinegar as an ingredient. While vinegar is a common ingredient used in the preservation of hot sauce due to its acidity, there are alternative methods that can be used through processing and other ingredients that can be added to help preservation. Some options for preserving hot…
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How To Make Hot Sauce Thicker: without compromising quality!
Hot sauce can come in many different forms, flavors, colors, heat levels, and consistencies. Some forms are meant to be a thin consistency whereas others are thick and chunky. Some process can be done to change the consistency, but careful precautions need to be done to ensure the sauce maintains its integrity. Additives can be…
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How To Make Hot Sauce Without Vinegar
Using a vinegar substitute will create the need to replace three aspects of a recipe: 1) flavor, 2) acidity, & 3) consistency Vinegar as an additive to a hot sauce recipe has been used as long as the condiment has been in existence. However, many consumers of hot sauce nowadays are venturing outside of the…
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How To Bottle Hot Sauce: A Complete Resource
Making homemade hot sauce is fun and easy and when you have a great-tasting recipe, you may want to share it with other people either at gatherings or offering it for sale commercially. This means your hot sauce will need to be bottled to meet safety standards and make sure it will not develop harmful…
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How to Lower the pH of a Hot Sauce
Hot sauce has been known to have a long shelf life due to the preserving ingredients used to make it. As new recipes develop using fruits, vegetables, and other alkaline heavy ingredients the contents are not as acidified and therefore have a higher pH level. This will shorten the shelf life. However, there are a…
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What is the Shelf Life of Homemade Hot Sauce?
I have made a lot of homemade hot sauces recipes. Some of which I did not care to share with others but many that I enjoy with others at gatherings and giving away to people. Homemade hot sauce may not have the same preserving qualities as a commercially made sauce therefore the shelf life may…
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Is Hot Sauce Acidic or Alkaline?
Consumers have always been concerned with what they are eating, and recently hot sauce has come to the forefront with some debate. The acidity of foods helps with the preservation whereas any alkaline contents are healthier for you but where does hot sauce fall: acidic or alkaline? Hot sauce is generally acidic in nature, especially…
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How Long Does Fermented Hot Sauce Last?
Fermented hot sauce has many benefits to include a unique tanginess and pungency along with certain types of probiotics. Many hot sauce recipes have a reputation for lasting a long time, refrigerated or not. Fermented hot sauce uses an aging process that can take months and helps preserve the sauce but how long does fermented…
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How to Pasteurize a Hot Sauce
Hot sauce has come a long way since its induction as a mainstream condiment. Today, gourmet hot sauces use ingredients that may not have the acidification needed to preserve a sauce or extend the shelf life for any substantial amount of time. Therefore, processes like pasteurization need to performed to extend the shelf life and…
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When Is Fermented Hot Sauce Ready?
Fermentation is a super easy hot sauce making process that produces a tangy, pungent, and district hot sauce flavor. It is a simple process that involves a simple mixture of salt and water, but the duration of the fermentation process can also control the outcome. The time it takes for fermented hot sauce to be…
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What is Hot Sauce pH?
Many consumers of hot sauce are now experimenting with making their own sauces because it has become an easy condiment to make. Making hot sauce at home for personal consumption and making for commercial use should both be concerned about the pH level. The pH of hot sauce refers to its level of acidity or…
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How to Make a Christmas Hot Sauce
The holidays are a wonderful time of year to celebrate festive gatherings with family and friends among feasts of traditional and contemporary foods. Recently hot sauce has become a tasty condiment gaining popularity at many Christmas celebrations as a topping, feature condiment, or added with other ingredients to spice up a traditional dish. Use this…
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Why Understanding the pH of Fermented Hot Sauce is Important
There are many methods of making or processing hot sauce that provide a unique, pungent, and tangy sauce that stands out among others. One of those unique processes is fermenting and this method can create low pH levels and therefore make a hot sauce with low acidic levels. Understanding how to semi-control the process before…
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Making Hot Sauce With Fresh Peppers vs Dried Peppers
The main ingredient in hot sauce that gives all hot sauce its spice is hot peppers, and these can come in many varieties and forms. Many manufacturers use fresh peppers but using dried peppers can also give similar results. It may be very difficult to determine if a hot sauce is made with fresh or…
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How To Make Hot Sauce From Dried Peppers
There are many ways to make hot sauce even with just a few ingredients. Ingredients can come in many different forms and will still become a great-tasting sauce. Fresh, dried, cooked, fermented, or other forms of the ingredients used in hot sauce are available and have become common in many hot sauces. One of those…
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pH Of Fermented Hot Sauce
The results of what is considered a hot sauce can be achieved with many different combinations of ingredients and with many different processes that can all produce different acidic levels. A common way of making homemade and commercially manufactured hot sauce is by fermenting the whole peppers or pepper mash and this results in a…
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pH Of Homemade Hot Sauce
Many people make batches of freshly made hot sauce after a season of newly grown hot peppers has been harvested. Making hot sauce is easy, fun, and a creative way to “spice” up a bland meal. The last thing you might be thinking about is the pH level or preserving qualities of the hot sauce,…
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The Science Behind Hot Sauce
Hot sauce is probably one of the easiest condiments to make. Although the combination of ingredients can be very simple some of the processes used can be very complex. Making hot sauce from a simple recipe is very easy but understanding the science behind how hot sauce is made can take some research and deep…
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Canning Hot Sauce
There are many ways to package and preserve hot sauce but one of the most conventional methods for large quantities is canning. Not all hot sauce recipes use ingredients that create a low pH level and allow the sauce to preserve itself. Some recipes may need a canning process to keep them safe and stable…
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Best Emulsifiers For Hot Sauce
Hot sauce is easily made by mixing hot peppers with vinegar…I write that in almost every blog post because I want people to understand how simple making hot sauce is. When hot sauce is first made it is typically a homemade recipe and probably has fresh, pure, and all-natural ingredients. All natural ingredients without any…
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How To Preserve Hot Sauce and Increase Shelf Life
Hot sauce is a condiment that is known for having an extended shelf life even after it has been opened. Hot sauce recipes that combine hot peppers with vinegar and other spices will become preserved because of the vinegar. Other recipes that do not use vinegar will need other methods of preservation similar to the…
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Preserving Homemade Hot Sauce
Hot sauce is an easy condiment to make at home and can be made with many different ingredients. Many people who grow their peppers may have an overabundance of crops and make hot sauce with either the surplus or the main crop. The most efficient practices are to make large batches at one time but…
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Why You Should Make Your Own Hot Sauce
Discovering the many varieties of hot sauce on the market today and trying each one of them is a fun experience for consumers, consumers, and hot sauce enthusiasts. Making hot sauce creations in your kitchen is also fun and super easy to make great-tasting recipes. It does not take a lot of kitchen experience or…
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4 Step Guide To Bottling Hot Sauce
A season’s crop of freshly grown hot peppers may go to waste if you cannot eat them or use them fast enough. There are methods of preservation such as refrigeration and freezing but this may only keep them edible for a few months. The best thing to do with an overabundance of freshly grown hot…
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What Is Hot Sauce Made With?
I remember sitting in a diner and my buddy Mike stating “hot sauce is so easy to make… it’s just hot peppers and vinegar”. Ever since then I wanted to make hot sauce, but it took years before started experimenting in kitchens and when I did it was hot peppers mixed with vinegar…hot sauce in…
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Homemade Hot Sauce
Making hot sauce at home is one of the easiest recipes to follow. Producing delicious and spicy sauce to enjoy at any gathering is as easy as combining blended hot peppers with liquid. Many times the type of sauce that you make can be determined by what you intend to use it for. Nowadays there…
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How To Make Hot Sauce
An introduction and guide to making gourmet hot sauce Hot sauce has become a huge phenomenon in the world of condiments. Consumers are eating more hot sauce than ever and manufacturers are answering the demand by creating new flavors. Making a delicious hot sauce from scratch is almost as easy as eating it. Why make…
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16 Hot Sauce Flavors You Need To Explore
All hot sauce has a common experience…heat. However, many hot sauces offer other flavors as well that are tasted throughout the sauce. This is an added attraction to a spicy hot sauce flavor. Each of these flavor categories also falls under the five flavor profiles but can boldly stand out along with the heat of…
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12 Standard Hot Sauce Preservatives…and How To Use Them
Not all hot sauce is created equal. Many sauces will use vinegar and citric juices as part of the ingredient combination and these ingredients will naturally allow the preservation of the sauce for several months or longer. However, many others may not contain vinegar or citrus juices and will require other additives to preserve them…
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How To Make A Hot Sauce Safe For Consumption
Recently there has been an influx of individuals, entrepreneurs, and small businesses that have joined in on the excitement of the hot sauce industry and have started making and selling sauce. Some recipes may be passed through the hands of generations and are now reaching commercial success. If you intend to bottle and sell your…
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Flavor Enhancers Richen The Profile Of Hot Sauce
Flavor enhancers are used in many different food products to create a distinct flavor within the food that it is added to. Even for many hot sauce products, which can have strong and bold flavors, there may be flavor enhancers used. These can help direct the brand to be paired with specific types of food…
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Making Hot Sauce For Beginners in 3 Easy Steps
Making hot sauce can be as easy as mixing two ingredients: hot peppers and vinegar. Many well-known and successful hot sauce brands have sold their products for years with only these two ingredients and a few spices. Making hot sauce for the first time can be done following 3 simple steps. Making hot sauce can…
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7 Ways To Keep Hot Sauce From Separating
The water that is contained in hot peppers can make even a simple hot sauce recipe seem watered down and can be watered down even more if there are other liquids added to the recipe. This water can easily separate from the other ingredients or “bulk” of the sauce made with even just a few…
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16 Mistakes NOT TO BE MADE creating hot sauce
1. Cheating on a recipe Usually, if someone publishes a recipe it is because it is tried, tested, and true…and tastes great. A recipe is not copywritten but the written process of getting there could be. It is OK to tweak it a little to make it your own but producing it first by following…
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10 Secrets to Making a Great Hot Sauce
Many people love making their own homemade food products, packaging them as commercial commodities, and selling them for profit. In recent years there has been an increase in homemade small-batch hot sauces reaching successful global markets. Hot sauce has become one of the fastest-growing condiments because of the demand and the ease at which it…
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4 Important Factors To Consider When Making Hot Sauce
Making hot sauce is a simple combination of mixing hot peppers with other ingredients and blending them. However, some other processes make a difference in how the sauce tastes and appears as well as the aroma it gives off. Many hot sauces may be simple recipes but there are four things to contemplate in making…
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What you need to know about making a gourmet hot sauce
Gourmet hot sauces are becoming as popular if not more popular than some of the traditional and classic hot sauce flavors we have been eating for decades. They can have lush flavor profiles and ingredients uncommon to hot sauces. A gourmet hot sauce is a combination of rare and desired ingredients combined by complex and…
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5 Ways to get a smoky flavor into a hot sauce
A smoke flavor is a strong flavor that can be used in many different food applications. This flavor fits nicely within the flavor profile of a hot sauce and this combination works great with flavoring other foods. There are several ways to create, blend and infuse a smoky flavor into a hot sauce. A smoke…
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How to make a hot sauce taste better with 5 flavor profiles
Making hot sauce can be done with only a few simple ingredients of hot peppers, vinegar, and salt. If you are not using processes like fermentation or smoking, a few ingredients may not make a sauce with varying flavors. Choosing other ingredients to be added will require a general knowledge of flavor profiles and how…
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Want to make hot sauce?…Get these simple kitchen tools, utensils, and appliances.
Having the right high-quality kitchen utensils and appliances is essential in your long-term efforts to make a great-tasting hot sauce. Spending money upfront on durable and lasting equipment can save money over time. Making hot sauce in a kitchen will require a blender, sharp knives, a cutting board, and measuring cups. Hot sauce-making processes such…
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11 Ways to Thicken Hot Sauce (that the pros use!)
Some hot sauce recipes may create a sauce that is runny, watery, or very thin if the ingredients and processes are not controlled properly. This is due to the water content of hot peppers and the addition of the liquid consistency of ingredients like vinegar, lemon juice, or others. Additives can be blended or cooked…
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Don’t waste time removing seeds from your hot sauce…eat em!
Seeds are often removed from many fruits and vegetables before they are consumed because of their bitterness and coarse texture. Most often seeds are left in hot peppers before they are blended into a hot sauce because they can be difficult and time-consuming to remove. There can be many reasons for removing them before making…
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How To Use Xanthan Gum in a Hot Sauce
Creating a hot sauce recipe can be a fairly simple combination of adding hot peppers and vinegar together but when additional ingredients or processes are used the hot sauce recipe can be very complex. That is when additives like xanthan gum are used to stabilize, thicken or bind ingredients of a hot sauce together. Xanthan…
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The Affects and Effects of Oil in Hot Sauce
I use a lot of oil in my cooking especially when I am frying vegetables in a pan for stir fry. Oil is a great way to fry up an otherwise undesirable vegetable and make the flavor stand out. I recently have used a roasted sesame seed oil along with some fried jalapenos to accent…
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Combine smoking with fermenting for an unbelievably delicious hot sauce
I have been making fermented hot sauce for years and trying different recipes or processes to make the sauce has always been a favorite pastime of mine. Smoking meat has also been an enjoyable way for me to create delicious meals. So I combined the two and recently I began smoking hot peppers and then…
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How to make fermented hot sauce from frozen peppers
Towards the end of every growing season, I have an overabundance of hot peppers from our back-yard home farm that I am usually struggling to find a use for. I usually make as much hot sauce as I can and either dry them or freeze them for later use. Winter is a great time to…
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How to select the best method or machine to fill hot sauce bottles for your entry level business
When I began making hot sauce it was in small batches of one or two bottles at a time because I was always experimenting with different recipes. Now I have perfected the hot sauce recipe, increased the quantity of each ingredient and make enough sauce to fill several bottles from one batch. I need to…
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Altering the pH of a hot sauce will change flavor and appearance
Measuring and altering the pH of a hot sauce is nearly a scientific experiment. The pH level of a hot sauce is important for shelf life stability and acidic levels desired for certain diets. Altering the pH is simple but it will most certainly change the recipe, and this could affect the overall flavor as…
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5 ways to remove seeds from hot peppers
I make mild hot sauces and remove the seeds to reduce a lot of the heat. I know, it kind of nulls the point of making a hot sauce if you are removing what makes a hot pepper what it is known for, but I cannot handle the heat anymore. When making smaller amounts of…
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There is a pH Difference Between Fermented and Non Fermented Hot Sauce
I have recently experimented with fermenting hot peppers before making hot sauce to try and emulate some of the popular sauces that I enjoy. I also want to make a sauce that does not rely on vinegar for preservation and flavor. Some of the ingredients I use create an acidic environment or a low pH…
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The Challenges of Preserving Hot Sauce and Controlling the pH
The addition or subtraction of certain ingredients in your hot sauce for the purpose of preservation will change the pH level. Hot peppers, by themselves are very acidic. To change the acidic level of your hot sauce or increase the alkaline measurement you will have to add ingredients that are either neutral or closer to…
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Finally Understand the Fermented Hot Sauce Process!
The top selling brands of hot sauce that use aged hot peppers are Franks RedHot, Sriracha and Tabasco® brand as well as many others. They don’t use the same peppers, the same process, the same type of containers or the same length to age their peppers before it becomes sauce. The process, methods and equipment…
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How To Invent Your Own Hot Sauce Recipe
I consistently see over and over again web sites that list hot sauce recipes mimicking or following name brand sauces. I want to make a sauce that is original and uses my own recipe. I know some of the common ingredients in a hot sauce but I want mine to stand out among the many…
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3 Ways to Test the Heat Level of a Hot Sauce
How hot is your homemade hot sauce? You may have spent a lot of time working on the recipe and would like some boasting rights on the heat level of your sauce or would like a reference point for some other sauces you are making. Knowing the heat level or SHU (Scoville Heat Unit) of…
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The Difficulties of Making a High Alkaline Hot Sauce
A simple hot sauce recipe of hot peppers, vinegar and spices will be acidic in its pH level. There are ways to easily adjust these levels to either increase acids or produce a hot sauce with a pH level towards a higher alkaline level. Producing a hot sauce with a high alkaline level proves to…
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How To Use a pH Meter Properly to Test Hot Sauce
Accuracy and calibration are the two most important factors in testing the pH level of hot sauce. Other methods of testing are the use of inexpensive pH paper to test the pH level of a hot sauce but the digital meter is the most accurate method and is very easy to use. The meter will…
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Make Your Own Franks, Tabasco® and Sriracha!
According to IBISworld.com Franks RedHot (McCormick), Tabasco® (Mcilhenny) and Sriracha (Huy Fong) are the three top selling hot sauce brands, maybe not in that order. If you read the ingredient labels there is a simplistic combination of ingredients; Peppers, vinegar and spices. Is it really that easy to make these hot sauces? How do you…
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Why The pH Level of a Hot Sauce is Important
I have been bottling my own hot sauce and have discovered there are several methods of putting it into containers for the possibility of selling it. I do not use any chemical preservatives and I don’t want to refrigerate it after I bottle it. Therefore, I will have to be concerned with the pH level…
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Grow Your Own Hot Peppers For Your Own Specialized Hot Sauce
I have started making my own hot sauce and have been buying the peppers from local stores and farm stands so the more I make, the more it costs. I have spent a lot of money on equipment, startup costs and marketing and have been trying to cut costs on production so I thought: Can…
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The Cost of Making Hot Sauce…For Sale?
I have always had a gleam in my eye to become an entrepreneur but could never grasp a product or service that I thought would sell. Upon some research I have found that the hot sauce business is growing and shows to be profitable through 2026. It just so happens that I love hot sauce…
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Do I Need A Blender To Make Hot Sauce?
I have read plenty of product labels and what the ingredients for hot sauce are. Lately I’ve thought that maybe I want to start making my own. I have some basic kitchen tools, but I still had some questions on the proper equipment. What kitchen utensils do I need to make hot sauce? Do I…
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What you need to know about purchasing peppers for hot sauce
I have recently followed through on an interest of making my own hot sauce. I have some kitchen experience, own some decent kitchen equipment and love trying new and exotic hot sauces. I almost always read the ingredient labels of products that I am consuming and upon reading the labels of some of my most…
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How To Reduce the Heat of a Hot Sauce or Hot Pepper
Hot sauces provide a spicy kick and a unique flavoring to many meals. For some consumers, like me, some of these peppers and sauces provide too much heat and negatively affect your eating experience. So, I ponder this question: Do the ingredients used in sauce reduce the SHU of a Pepper? The typical ingredients used…
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Don’t Waste Money Buying Hot Peppers If You Make Your Own Hot Sauce…Grow Them Instead!
I love hot sauce! That’s right I said it again, and now I have started making my own. For the small amount of hot sauces that I make in my kitchen do not need a large amount of the main ingredient…hot peppers, but I found a great recipe and now I want to make more…
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