Glad this was brought up.
First. Did you make that hot sauce or did you buy it?
I will have some very hot peppers come summer. I planted some Ghost chili seeds and I have a few habanero plants to put in the garden along with several other varieties.
There is no way I can eat them all. So I have to think about them now, before I have to do something with them.
Hot sauce seems like an excellent idea, and I think it would make fine small Christmas gifts for my neighbors and friends.
So if you made this hot sauce, please post your recipe.
I am also considering drying the peppers. Should I use my dehydrator or just hang them and allow them to dry slowly?
Glad this was brought up.
First. Did you make that hot sauce or did you buy it?
I will have some very hot peppers come summer. I planted some Ghost chili seeds and I have a few habanero plants to put in the garden along with several other varieties.
There is no way I can eat them all. So I have to think about them now, before I have to do something with them.
Hot sauce seems like an excellent idea, and I think it would make fine small Christmas gifts for my neighbors and friends.
So if you made this hot sauce, please post your recipe.
I am also considering drying the peppers. Should I use my dehydrator or just hang them and allow them to dry slowly?
Fancy, fancy. Looks nice. Do you have special equipment to close the bottles? Obviously you do. Kind of stupid question. But what is it? What kind of equipment?
Glad this was brought up.
First. Did you make that hot sauce or did you buy it?
I will have some very hot peppers come summer. I planted some Ghost chili seeds and I have a few habanero plants to put in the garden along with several other varieties.
There is no way I can eat them all. So I have to think about them now, before I have to do something with them.
Hot sauce seems like an excellent idea, and I think it would make fine small Christmas gifts for my neighbors and friends.
So if you made this hot sauce, please post your recipe.
I am also considering drying the peppers. Should I use my dehydrator or just hang them and allow them to dry slowly?
I make my own using habanaro's. You can also make pepper jelly if you have canning equip. I'm sorry but, I keep the recipe to myself. There are lots of recipes on the net to suit every taste. I buy my peppers, as I don't have room to grow them. I use fresh peppers for my hot sauce, although I have hung them to dry to use on rubs and sauce. Either way they don't loose the heat. A dehydrator is fine too. Then through a spice grinder. With fresh peppers I par boil them in vinegar and run them through a food strainer to separate the seeds and skins.
I make my own using habanaro's. You can also make pepper jelly if you have canning equip. I'm sorry but, I keep the recipe to myself. There are lots of recipes on the net to suit every taste. I buy my peppers, as I don't have room to grow them. I use fresh peppers for my hot sauce, although I have hung them to dry to use on rubs and sauce. Either way they don't loose the heat. A dehydrator is fine too. Then through a spice grinder. With fresh peppers I par boil them in vinegar and run them through a food strainer to separate the seeds and skins.
...She thinks I'm nuts for doing all this work when I can just open a bottle. We have both in stock here right now.
I've heard that comment too. Just remind her it's about the journey, not the destination.
Here's a very good article on preserving hot sauce. By "canning machine," do you mean a pressure canner? You don't necessarily need one for canning, but the article includes another method that might work for you: Making Hot Sauce 101 - Hot Sauce Making - The Hot Pepper
You can freeze peppers whole, then thaw them to use in recipes; they get soft, so they wouldn't work for something like ABTs but they're fine for a sauces, etc.
If my memory is still intact, didn't you make some way back when and post the pictures here? The second I saw this batch, the label looked very familiar to me. I remember thinking that the name was so simple, how could anyone ever forget it.