Slightly O.T.: How Can I Make My Own Hot Sauce?

[Dauthi]

I`m a bbq fanatic and someone just gave me a ton of hot pepper plants that are bearing a ton of peppers. What are some good and relatively easy recipes for hot sauce?

[Emcic]

You`ll never eat red salsa again.

[Khalizad]

else you like(sometimes a sweetener like sugar or fruit juice). You can puree this stuff up raw and store it, or you can cook it so that you cook down the water and have a more concentrated sauce, whatever.

[cpmiller]

beginning to doubt her. Up until last year, I was growing some nice Thai peppers and I put them up just like Jack said. Good stuff but not for the faint hearted.

[Khalizad]

planned.

[Kerb]

On a scale of mild to hot, these rate "lava".
To tame them for sauces, dry them in the sun or dehydrator, then roast them - *outside* on the grill that you keep *outside* - until they`re dark brown/almost black. Did I mention that you roast them *outside* and not on the stove or in the oven?
Then crush them with mortar and pestle. Changes the nature of the beast... Use them fresh to cauterize wounds.