I just made a nice sauce with pineapples peaches vinegar water and habaneros. For 40 ounces total liquid by volume I used 6 orange habaneros. I thought this would be spicy (comes down to .75 habaneros per 5 oz woozie.) but it really is just a mild-medium sauce. There is some heat at the end of you use a lot, its more like a spicy sauce than a hot sauce. The flavor is spot on. How do I make this hotter without adjusting other ingredients? I thought maybe double the habaneros (1.5 per 5 ounce woozie) or mix in X (fill in the blank) teaspoons of ghost pepper powder? Add some red jalapenos? Thank you. I want it hot but not stupid hot and still focusing on flavor not just insane heat.
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How to make sauce hotter???
- Thread starter Hothotsauce
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It's quite clear that adding more salt to a thread makes it spicier.
Hothotsauce said:
Cooking does decrease the heat in a sauce. When you cook the sauce some capsasicin gets released into the air. The fiance has almost banned me from making sauce in the house, because I tend to mace everyone in it.
I would either decrease cooking time and heat or add more peppers. I mention the cooking time and heat level because if you cook it for a long time at a high heat you will definitely tame it.
WarrantMan
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Too bad really. I tried to be optimistic and extend the olive branch to the dude. I'd read some of his other posts and thought he might offer something of benefit (other than entertainment.)
"Win some, lose some, some get rained out.."
"Win some, lose some, some get rained out.."
cone9
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Yeah, Reggie...put that olive branch back in your pocket and save it for someone deserving. That guy had a log on his shoulder. Bet everyone/thing he touches he turns to s**t!
Gotta pity the poor folks who have to work with a jerk like that. Certainly can't be many that choose to play with him!
Gotta pity the poor folks who have to work with a jerk like that. Certainly can't be many that choose to play with him!
Ive been pretty happy using a little ghost powder in sauces that needed a boost lately. This year was the first time ive grown them. I only did it for a novelty more or less. Oddly i found out i like them. They dont seem to change the flavor much other than adding a nice heat boost. Even my dad got into them after trying them in a sauce i made just for him from all dried pods. He is not a big fan of the "hab" flavor but likes the ghost in smallish amounts.