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Questions tagged [hot-sauce]

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Keeping Hot Sauce From Separating

Last fall I tried my hand at making a homemade hot sauce. Essentially: roast peppers, blend with vinegar, garlic, salt and other spices, put in jar for three weeks, strain and you have hot sauce. The sauce was great, but after about a week of…
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Hot sauce; Remove seeds?

I use a recipe that calls for removing the top third or more of Cayenne peppers in order to remove most of the seeds. Seems like a waste to me. Aside from having to strain out the seeds after cooking, what would it hurt to just cut the stem and cook…
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How does the "Suicide Sauce" from Hot Licks rate on the Scoville Scale

I bought the so called "Suicide Hot-Sauce" from Hot Licks about a year ago when I visited California. I forgot to ask how this sauce rates on the Scoville Scale, because I usually don't care that much about those numbers as long as the taste is…
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How to balance the bitterness of Habanero peppers?

I'm a hobby hot sauce maker and I'm wondering how do I balance the bitterness of Habanero peppers? All the super hot peppers in the Chinense family have a strong bitter taste that comes with the extreme heat. I've used citrus, salt, sugar and the…
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Is there any way to enhance the heat without changing the taste in a hot sauce?

I have been making a three pepper chili for years, but the spice content leaves a little to be desired for some people. I wanted to make a hot sauce that would complement this chili, but my first few attempts haven't been hot enough. I used…
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What can I make with vinegar-soaked chilli peppers?

I misread a fermentation recipe and ended up putting a pile of chopped chilli peppers in a jar of vinegar with huge helpings of rock salt. It’s been left overnight, unrefrigerated. Can I recover this into some kind of hot sauce?
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After a few days why does my hot sauce separate leaving liquid in the bottom?

After making my hot sauce it tends to separate leaving a vinegar at the bottom and sauce at the top. When I shake it up then it's back to normal. Any suggestions?
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