Hot Sauce

OleBoot
OleBoot Posts: 2,821
edited June 2014 in The Clubhouse
So I like to make hot food. Being English, Indian curries are my forte, but I've got to like Mexican food in the 20 years I've been here, and love putting hot sauce on my food, which often annoys my goodwife if she's cooked it. So I notice there is a quart bag of Habaneros (which we grew last year in pots on our deck) in the freezer that are close to freezer burn, and thought I must be able to make some hot sauce out of these. I consulted the interweb, and the recipes seemed quite simple and all started with boiling the peppers until they are soft. Being very clever, I thought OK, I'll do that on the side burner of the grill so I don't poison the house with noxious vapors. So I put them on and got into watching the Brazil v Chile football (not soccer :-) ) match. Sometime later I thought WTF is that smell? Oh cr@p, it's my chiles burning. I rescued the unburnt ones on top, added some spices, sugar and salt, diluted it and my "Seered Habanero Gourmet Hot Sauce" doesn't taste half bad. My point is that out of a quart freezer bag not quite stuffed with Habanero chiles, I have ended up with enough sauce ti fill about 30-40 of those little bottles in the supermarket that are $2-$3 apiece. We are all in the wrong business.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 33,011
    edited June 2014
    Next to Italian, Mexican food is my favorite, or any kind of Latin infused version. Hot sauces I can dig, but not when it over powers the taste of the food. I'm a foodie, so I like to taste what I eat.
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,821
    edited June 2014
    Lasareath wrote: »
    This is the Hot sauce I Love!

    http://www.mazi401.com/piri-piri.html

    Have to give that one a try. Actually, did you know it was the Portuguese that first brought hot peppers from the old world to the new world and then on to Asia, so we have them to thank for all the Indian, Thai, Chinese etc. hot food we know today. So I guess they should be able to come up with some pretty good hot sauce recipes.
  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    edited June 2014
    In the last couple of years I went from mild to very hot, I would eat something that was mild but others were screaming it was to hot and I realized I could handle some pretty intense heat, then I went to this "Thai Bistro" and they asked if I wanted it hot or Thai hot?

    I just went with the hot and wow that was very hot, took me awhile to finish my curry dish. I could not imagine how hot it would have been if it was THAI HOT :)
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,277
    edited June 2014
    OMG, I LOVE spicy food, although it doesn't always like me. There was a restaurant in Louisville (John E's) that had the hottest chili that you could imagine. The Louisville newspaper posted the three best chili recipes from local restaurants, and John E's was one of them. My dad and I will get together once a month and make a big pot. It's not for everyone. It's so hot it makes your **** burn. In fact, John E's ended up going out of business, so I guess there wasn't a huge demand for a food that cleans out your intestines. It's almost time for my monthly chili cleanse. High-five!
  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,821
    edited June 2014
    voltz wrote: »
    In the last couple of years I went from mild to very hot, I would eat something that was mild but others were screaming it was to hot and I realized I could handle some pretty intense heat, then I went to this "Thai Bistro" and they asked if I wanted it hot or Thai hot?

    I just went with the hot and wow that was very hot, took me awhile to finish my curry dish. I could not imagine how hot it would have been if it was THAI HOT :)


    Don't know if the same goes for Thai food, but most Indians think the British are insane to eat the super hot food served in the curry houses there that passes for Indian food. Seems to be more Thai and Indian places popping up around my neck of the woods, and the ones I've tried have all been pretty darn hot.
  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,132
    edited June 2014
    I love spicy foods and hot sauce, I got a 16 bottle sampler pack loved them all the haberano was as hot as I could go the ghost pepper one look out that is to hot for me. My favorite is Chipotle, sounds like you got some sauce to enjoy for a bit. I also have some ghost pepper jelly, great with cream cheese spread on Ritz crackers, once again a little hot but with a hint of sweetness. I think those ghost peppers are the hottest peppers ever.
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  • JimKellyfan
    JimKellyfan Posts: 696
    edited June 2014
    Tabasco has a newer Habanero out, and another smoked Chipotle I am liking very much.
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