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I used to grow my own peppers and make hot sauce.
I dried them out in the oven, used a mortar and pestle to turn them into powder, and then added them to vinegar/water/salt.
Never tried it this way, but I'm not sure that's going to be hot sauce.
but I'm not sure that's going to be hot sauce.
Right... the "hot" is inside of the peppers. This seems like it's going to be vinegar with a hint of pepper, not at all hot.
When I make chili, I throw in whole jalepenos. The chili doesn't become hot until you bust open one of the jalepenos.
I started off with jalepenos and chilis. By year two I moved onto carolina reapers, trinidad scorpions, ghost peppers, chocolate 7-pots, and orange nagas.
The reapers and chocolate 7-pots make really good hot sauce, the reapers are actually kind of sweet. You can dilute them with chilies if you don't want molten lava.
You have to be super careful handling super hot chilies. They burn your skin. I you touch the corner of your eye after touching one, you are screwed. If you dry them, crush them and then accidentally get the dust all over your kitchen, you are screwed. Some of the hotter ones like the reaper can have more capsicum than pepper spray, and dried they are way more potent.
You have to be super careful handling super hot chilies. They burn your skin
If I could only go back in time to warn 8 year old me... didn't touch my eye, I ended up touching my dick after handling some red hot peppers. Will never forget that....
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