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heat Hot sauce losing heat?

PtMD989

PtMD989

I have 3 batches of hot sauce fermenting. They range from 2 months young to 1 month. I’ve noticed they have been tasting better (more mellow)the longer they age. My oldest sauce seems to be losing heat as it ages. All my sauces are Cayenne ,Jalapeños and Tabasco based, each a little different ratio of peppers with garlic and 1 with ginger also 1 has about 50% smoked peppers. My question is does fermented hot sauce lose its heat as it ages? Or am I just getting used to the heat level and have to up my hot pepper game ?


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BigB said:
i made a 2 large ferment batch of chocolate ghost and scorpion mix. the first bottle processed at 6 months, the 2nd bottle processed at a little over a year. 1 year was not as hot as 6 months. still have my 1 year bottle (so basically 2 years now) and it's definitely mellow, and tolerable. before it was burn my face off. now it's pretty tolerable 
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I too have noticed that my fermented sauces tend to mellow as they age.  My cooked sauces stay hot as the day they were made, but if I let a ferment age before bottling its heat level starts coming down.  Currently have a 3 gallon ferment I did with mostly supers that's been hiding in a dark corner of the basement since summer of 2015.  The mash that went in the container was straight fire, like "geez can't bear it" kind of hot.  I have a reminder set in my phone that goes off every three weeks so I can check/refill the airlock.
 
Thinking I'll crack it next year at the end of the season and see what's up.     :)
 
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BigB said:
i made a 2 large ferment batch of chocolate ghost and scorpion mix. the first bottle processed at 6 months, the 2nd bottle processed at a little over a year. 1 year was not as hot as 6 months. still have my 1 year bottle (so basically 2 years now) and it's definitely mellow, and tolerable. before it was burn my face off. now it's pretty tolerable 
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When you say processed, did you boil and bottle, or can it?
When I tasted my first batch,when it was real young, felt like a bee landed on my tongue. Not so much any more.
I keep using batch #1 on my food. It will probably get ate up before I get to canning it. Haha


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PtMD989 said:
When you say processed, did you boil and bottle, or can it?
When I tasted my first batch,when it was real young, felt like a bee landed on my tongue. Not so much any more.
I keep using batch #1 on my food. It will probably get ate up before I get to canning it. Haha


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because it was such a large amount, by processed i mean put it in a vitamix blender to make it smooth, add some vinegar and bottle. but it is still in the large bottle that it was fermented in. 
 
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PtMD989 said:
Anybody have an opinion on if it’s possible that you lose capsaicin when you boil or process your sauce?


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Of course, don't your eyes burn and you cough? That's the cap vaporizing.
 
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Ah yes! Even the powerful ones, you'll feel when you slice it! When cooked even more will release. To the point of noticing in the sauce, not really!
 
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PtMD989 said:
Not yet ,I havent boiled any yet. Thanks for the heads up. Ive got that sensation after running peppers thru the blender.
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Make sure the wife and kids aren't in the house or you'll never hear the end of it, hahaha

pallottahot said:
The combination of vinegar and Caps is not fun when you get a good whiff
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That's just one person's opinion. It grows on you after a while ;)
 
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MikeUSMC said:
Make sure the wife and kids aren't in the house or you'll never hear the end of it, hahaha

That's just one person's opinion. It grows on you after a while ;)
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You know it! She don’t even know that I use her smoothie blender to chop and purée my sauces. I’d never hear the end of that either. Haha
Wife: what in the hell are you doing? You’re going to wreck the blender.
Me: I’m making me a smoothie, a hot pepper smoothie that is. (That last part is spoken really quiet)

Nailed it
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....and you got away with using the blender for sauce and then it was used for smoothies again?  
 
:clap:  That's GOOD!  Well Done!!!
 
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Thanks it’s all true. I guess I must clean it good enough. I haven’t heard of any ruined smoothies. Haha
Maybe Santa will bring me a blender for Christmas.


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