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Your Thoughts?

I have read where smoking peppers before they go onto ferment is okay.  Do they lose some smokey flavor or is it enhanced by the ferment?
 
I like my smoked Jigsaw sauce I made, wondering how the depth would be with it fermented and how the flavors would get along?
 
Didn't put my jigsaw sauce through the Ninja between cooks when I first made it.  Really like how smooth the sauces look when this is done and I am considering redoing my sauce.  Other than wasting some lids, what drawbacks or advantages would be in doing this?  My second batch of this sauce wasn't as smokey as I wanted it and was a little hotter than I wanted.  This would give me a chance to correct both.  Or should I wait until I get a ferment done of Jigsaw pods and then put it all together?
 
This fermenting thing has really changed how I view making sauce (thank you pepper people) and what benefits do I get from letting it age longer?  When do you reach the end of the diminishing returns on the aging process?  
 
HillBilly Jeff said:
 When do you reach the end of the diminishing returns on the aging process?  
 
IDK. I have some tabascos that have been fermenting then aging for about 12 months now. I'll turn them into sauce soon but I don't expect them to me much smoother than the last batch I pulled after 6 months, I just haven't had a reason to use them until recently.
 
Tabasco ages for 3 years IIRC.
 
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