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Masking pepper flavours in sauce

MiLK_MaN

MiLK_MaN

Hey all,

I've experimented with a few sauces, most of been failures. but I just recently made a chilli bbq sauce with 6 Trinidad Scorpions that I'm a big fan of.

However, I'd really like to make some fruit based sauces, but with a fair bit of heat, but everytime I use superhots, they completely overpower the sauce.

Anyone got any tips on retaining heat but not the flavour?
 
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Use a pepper that has heat but no real flavour, ie Goats Weed.

Personaly i like to reatain the flavour of the peppers so it may be difficult as i have never tried :)
 
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Maybe the case, how about you try making the base and adding the habs one by one until you reach the desired heat leval. Adding a couple more for good measure of coarse! I have heard sugar can be used to tame hot sauces too.
 
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Timmmy newbie said:
Good question!

I made a bbq sauce yesterday and it tastes like jolokia's and thats all with no BBQ flavour.
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If you want, I can give you the bbq sauce recipe I used on Friday in conjunction with Trinidad Scorpions for you to try? It has a very nice bbq flavour with nice heat, and I really cant even taste the flavour of the scorpions.
 
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It has a very nice bbq flavour with nice heat, and I really cant even taste the flavour of the scorpions.
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WTF?

You're wasting a rare adn fine chile then.

Take a bottle of Hunt's BBQ sauce. mix with a few tbls of cayenne, call it a day.


Um, mebbe i dont get it, btu why dont ya want the flavor of the chiles?

Perhaps ya betetr off with extract sauces that are hot and taste liek nothing.

Or, buy Defcon's sauces...his are at least properly done BBQ stuff.

Mey, I LOVE tasting the chiles. Not just having the hot.

Have you tried THSC's NagaSav? You can taste the Naga..but it's still smokey and rich.

I've made many BBQ-style sauces that are packed wit habs, and they still have taht 'bbq' flavor...takes sugar, molasses, spices, and lots of slow cookin'...sometimes for hrs.

Yes, sometimes I cheat and use liquid smoke..most all commercial sauces do.
If ya dont want that, try smoking yer habs first..or even jus roasting them over a flame like an ancho. I'm also used habs dried to the point of near-browning for a diff flavor.

Using powdered/dry chiles will mitigate the natural flavor, but shouldn't the heat.
 
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I was going to ask if dried chillies would reduce the taste, I might have to give that a crack.

Not everyone has the same taste buds, for me, I really cant stand the flavour of fresh superhots. I made a salsa yesterday with 2 tomatoes, 2 red savinas and 2 choc habs, and i threw it out because I hated the flavour. But putting 6 Trinidad Scorpions in a BBQ Sauce recipe where the flavour is quite masked Im very fine with that.

I think I like it more where the flavour is not dominating. I probably do enjoy the flavour, but where its equally mixed with other ingredients.
 
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MiLK_MaN said:
I was going to ask if dried chillies would reduce the taste, I might have to give that a crack.

Not everyone has the same taste buds, for me, I really cant stand the flavour of fresh superhots. I made a salsa yesterday with 2 tomatoes, 2 red savinas and 2 choc habs, and i threw it out because I hated the flavour. But putting 6 Trinidad Scorpions in a BBQ Sauce recipe where the flavour is quite masked Im very fine with that.

I think I like it more where the flavour is not dominating. I probably do enjoy the flavour, but where its equally mixed with other ingredients.
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YOU THREW IT OUT OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH WHAT A CRIME Thats when you keep adding alittle here and little there. The description you are giving sounds like you just like to have a mild bbq sause or salsa then I would suggest trying Bell peppers, Japaleno, or maybe a serano for the heat and who knows some black strap molasses will help with the mixture Good Luck
 
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