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.

[Khalizad]

instead.

[cpmiller]

it`s a fact. Chef`s right about those *REAL* Thai peppers being some mean little mother`s. I hand carried some roasted peppers back from Bangkok a number of years ago. I watched (from a distance) while fresh Thai peppers were roasted in an iron skillet over an hibachi well away from the house. I don`t know how the cook managed it because I couldn`t get closer then about ten feet. The upshot is, not all of the seeds were killed and I managed to cultivate enough to grow my own crop back home. Good stuff Maynard. Nothing else tastes the same. BTW, Thai chili`s come in three distinct heat levels. The mildest competes with the lowly Jalapeno while the hottest tries to compete with the Habenero.

[Darkstarvn2]

Got any seeds to share?? Been trying to switch to all heirlooms her on the farm. Got a few nice veggie seeds to swap if you are interested in that sort of thing?? Care,