cooking "Cooking" peppers before making sauce - grill boil steam oven

[Hothotsauce]

Hi,

Do you "cook" the peppers before putting it in the pot to simmer for 20 min? How do you do it - boil/steam/oven/grill? What temp and how long? Thank you!

 

[tctenten]

Most times I boil until most of the water has evaporated.  

 

[JoynersHotPeppers]

So many answers to this question, depends on the type of sauce you want. If you want a fire roasted sauce, perhaps you put flame to the peppers, or you smoke them for another style and on and on

 

[Jeshwa]

Usually fire roast, oven, or Sautee with clean oils pending consistency and flavor, or you can just straight up ferment half pods and process after 90 days or so. But like already stated there's not really a "right way" unless you're going for specifics. I Usually Sautee or fire roast myself. Give every try a shot and see what suits your needs.

 

[SavinaRed]

It all depends what you want your sauce to taste like but most of the time I blend my peppers with the other ingredients and then slow cook/sauté it from 30-60 minutes. I have several smoked/dried types of peppers that I will add if I'm looking for that kind of flavor. I haven't fire roasted and peppers yet for a bottled sauce but I might give that a try soon and see how I like that profile. I really like that profile with LuckyDog's sauce.

 

[Hothotsauce]

Thanks for the replies! How bad are the fumes if just making a pint/quart... for habs and jalapenos - do i really need to cook outside?

 

[SavinaRed]

Thanks for the replies! How bad are the fumes if just making a pint/quart... for habs and jalapenos - do i really need to cook outside?

 
IMHO when you are cooking anything at a hab or hotter its best to go outside. The only sauces I cook inside now are jalapeno's, bishops, starfish etc...... Anything hotter and the family has serious probems.

 

[Hothotsauce]

Thanks SavinaRed. Can I ask do you blend in a blender either before you cook on store or after you cook? Do you do this outside also? Or is it really just the pot on the stove cooking everything that releases all of the fumes? Big thanks

 

[SavinaRed]

Thanks SavinaRed. Can I ask do you blend in a blender either before you cook on store or after you cook? Do you do this outside also? Or is it really just the pot on the stove cooking everything that releases all of the fumes? Big thanks

 
Yes I use a Blendtec blender as it gets my sauce really smooth prior to cooking. I blend inside and cook outside.

 

[The Hot Pepper]

All the answers are good, there's so many ways. One way to do it is approach it as if you are making a marinara sauce from raw tomatoes. Now do that for hot sauce with peppers. Sauce is sauce, sometimes. Don't be scared to mess up. That's how you learn.

 

[ShowMeDaSauce]

I cook small batches of hab sauce inside but its still a struggle with a window/door open. I may try a mini crock pot and see how that goes. The fumes make me sneeze non stop until it cools.