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preservation Good ingredients for vinegar based hot sauce

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ReedH75

I would like to gift my dad some ingredients for a vinegar based hot sauce for christmas. He has made his own vinegar based hot sauce with ghost chilies and tabascos. He likes very spicy food and peppers such as the ghost chili (he grows them in our back yard). What ingredients and peppers should i get him to make hot sauce?
 
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I like garlic in mine as well. Perhaps cane vinegar. Sometimes I'll use jalapenos with the superhots to get a burn on the front end. I'll also add some cumin, coriander, mustard powder and/or wasabi powder just to get a full aromatic multitudenous heat.
 
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Welcome ReedH75!  If he's made his own sauce he likely has most everything already so just get him some actual peppers:  ghosts and/or reapers or 7 pot or Fatalli peppers (a couple pounds total) and he can take care of the rest.  Fresh peppers are best (imo) but dried peppers can be just as good!  Reputable vendors abound around here - search 'vendor vault' - the community won't steer you wrong.  
 
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check out some recipes here for common ingredient suggestions.  Maybe a couple different unique vinegars, peppers or pods as SnF suggested...
 
Sounds like a great gift idea and I bet your dad will love your thoughtfulness. 
 
OH!  What about some bottles?  Specialty Bottle doesn't have minimums, you could get a case or 2 of 5 oz and/or 10 oz woozy bottles.  The ship fast, definitely time to get them for Christmas. 
 
let us know how it goes...
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:welcome:  to THP, Reed!!!
 
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You guys are really suggesting garlic for a X-mas gift? :lol:
 
I'd put together a nice basket of unique ingredients. Agave nectar, pomegranate syrup, Steen's cane vinegar, smoked sea salt, dried chiles, a book on hot sauce making, some bottles, etc.
 
Just don't make it look like you went to the produce aisle for X-mas. He can do that! :)
 
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The Hot Pepper said:
You guys are really suggesting garlic for a X-mas gift? :lol:
 
I'd put together a nice basket of unique ingredients. Agave nectar, pomegranate syrup, Steen's cane vinegar, smoked sea salt, dried chiles, a book on hot sauce making, some bottles, etc.
 
Just don't make it look like you went to the produce aisle for X-mas. He can do that! :)
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Feel free to send me garlic for Christmas. :)
 
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