bottling Bottling Options for My Hot Salt

Gemini Crow Sauce Company · Jun 25, 2015

So, before the end of the summer, I'm gonna be putting out my reaper salt. ready for production.

from day 1, my thought process was going with a coarse salt and bottling with a grinder top.

then I saw this ... and really liked the whole mason jar idea....

Going with a course salt in packaging with an open top doesnt seem to ideal (at least to me), as who wants big chunks of salt on their food, so if I went with this version, I'd go with a more fine version of the salt, that can be pinched or served with a small spoon...

I see grinders a lot and it seems more ideal, but I dig the mason jar bottling too....Sitting on the fence waiting for a breeze to push me in one direction or the other....

If buying an item like this, what would be your preference?

Lucky Dog Hot Sauce · Jun 25, 2015

Meh

I guess the grinder. Not an interesting product to me unless you grew the peppers or infused the salt (preferably both).

Just MHO

No offense intended - I see the market quickly saturating with infusions and 99.999% of them are things I can go online and order from the source.

Maybe I'm short-sighted but when customers ask me where I got my hickory smoked sea salt or habanero infused sea salt, I give them the website. lol

Gemini Crow Sauce Company · Jun 25, 2015

It's not a passion project by any means, but it was easy to put together & relatively inexpensive to put together, and just a different kind of 'spicy' ware to offer at my table for the people who immediately dismiss the idea of 'hot sauce'....Just trying different things, that can be done on a smaller scale to see if it catches on.....

Lucky Dog Hot Sauce · Jun 26, 2015

Oh I get it - I've seen several vendors at the fair with this exact thing. Habanero salt, smoked salts, scorpion salts, etc. I've asked about sales & they said the milder ones sell better.

From what I gather he jalapeño salt sells better of the pepper salts, but they said the smoked salts in the grinder shaker outsell the pepper salts 5:1

That's real world feedback, but from a California demographic - so uh, take it with a grain of salt?
:rofl:

Gemini Crow Sauce Company · Jun 26, 2015

Lucky Dog Hot Sauce said:
so uh, take it with a grain of salt?

#wordplay #iseewhatyoudidthere #goodstuff

but you are right as well....I do plan on a much milder spicy salt as well...I had secured a nice batch of reaper flakes (while in season and available), so I jumped.....

JoynersHotPeppers · Jun 26, 2015

I dabbled with this myself and will do it again this year. As for the containers, I would do a test run on the grinder if you are using flakes to see if it processes them like it does the course salt. I do not have that issue since I use powder.

Lucky Dog Hot Sauce · Jun 26, 2015

Gemini Crow Sauce Company said:
#wordplay #iseewhatyoudidthere #goodstuff

but you are right as well....I do plan on a much milder spicy salt as well...I had secured a nice batch of reaper flakes (while in season and available), so I jumped.....

Good call. I felt like David Caruso taking off his glasses when I said that.

Sorry for the sarcasm - it was the end of a loooooong day 8 at the fair and I get a little...salty.

YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!

Gemini Crow Sauce Company · Jun 26, 2015

Lucky Dog Hot Sauce said:
Good call. I felt like David Caruso taking off his glasses when I said that.

Sorry for the sarcasm - it was the end of a loooooong day 8 at the fair and I get a little...salty.

It's all good. I didn't feel like you were verbally aSALTing me or anything......

*cure Fonzie jumping the shark image*

Lucky Dog Hot Sauce · Jun 26, 2015

God I love that leather jacket....

Gemini Crow Sauce Company · Jan 11, 2016

browsing through some of the old posts and came back to this one...

i have been doing the reaper salt in the grinder bottles and it is going over gang busters......people go gaga over it, so it's a keeper...

early 2nd quarter (maybe in time for the nyc expo), im gonna have the milder Jalapeno version as Scott mentioned/suggested earlier in the thread....

*thumbs up*

Scuba_Steve · Jan 11, 2016

By my house we have a store in an outlet mall that sells nothing but salt. Probably 500 varieties. I have to say I love some scorpion salt!

Topsmoke · Jan 14, 2016

I would buy a smaller container over a huge one. Im not going to be using it every time i cook and people are worried about salt intake. Also i like grinders, much easier to get even distribution and courser salt delivers salt in crunchy bursts where fine salt has no mouth feel and is like drinking from the ocean. I use kosher generally.