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cooking No cook lemon drop hot sauce
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Thia style sweet chile sauce
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ShowMeDaSauce
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gregarican
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First Batch
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333
gregarican
gregarican
mrbill
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Put up another one
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mrbill
mrbill
dash-10
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fermenting Fresh Peppers vs Pepper Mash
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The Hot Pepper
The Hot Pepper
rnichols1990
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Pepper Extract Tincture Recipes
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rnichols1990
rnichols1990
karoo
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fermenting Fermented Aji Cito sauce ideas ?
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mrbill
mrbill
Siv
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fermenting Adding peppers to a ferment already underway
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1
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938
karoo
karoo
Newks_Hot_Sauce
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Scaling up from 100 bottles to 2000 bottles. Advice needed!
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Alejandro
Alejandro
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Ropey slimy snotty brine
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salsalady
salsalady
V
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bottling Question regarding bottling and hotfill
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veeCan
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Jmarglon
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Sauce explosion problem- need help!
2
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dragon49
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Newks_Hot_Sauce
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Switching From Dry Reaper Pods to Fresh Reaper Peppers. Advice?
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745
salsalady
salsalady
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food-safety How to sterilize plastic bottle caps for 5 oz woozy
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Karpasruuti
Karpasruuti
mrbill
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New Sauce
2
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mrbill
mrbill
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fermenting Skip fermentation, just add Lactic Acid
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AzJon
AzJon
AzJon
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Standardizing recipes
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AzJon
AzJon
dragonsfire
condiment Salsa
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5
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762
salsalady
salsalady
robanero7
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bottling Flipping bottles with orifice reducers
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4
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769
robanero7
robanero7
ChileRelleno
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Popping My Cherry!
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ChileRelleno
ChileRelleno
salsalady
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Soursop Sawse? Why Not???
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salsalady
salsalady
J
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Scaling Up changing the taste
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7
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797
The_NorthEast_ChileMan
The_NorthEast_ChileMan
J
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cooking Re-cook sauce that has already been bottled
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5
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619
The Hot Pepper
The Hot Pepper
Z
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would love to get some input :)
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6
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800
AaronTT
AaronTT
ProjectileTeeth
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I discovered One Weird Trick. Thought I’d share:
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744
Ashen
Ashen
portveyn
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fermenting Pepper Mash Ferment Spoiled? :-0
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AzJon
AzJon
ProjectileTeeth
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If you use a food mill, what do you do with the leftover solids?
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Siv
Siv
AzJon
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preservation Preserving garlic acridness
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1
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515
salsalady
salsalady
Jmarglon
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fermenting Use Dehydrated peppers to avoid fermentation?
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sirex
sirex
hatesauce
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heat Trouble maintaining heat levels in fresh sauce
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4
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Siv
Siv
Jmarglon
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Ph tester recommendation needed
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4
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805
Jmarglon
Jmarglon
Newks_Hot_Sauce
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Pad Thai Peanut hot sauce?
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Walchit
Walchit
Newks_Hot_Sauce
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preservation Preserving Tomatoes For A Couple Days w/o Refrigeration
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10
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975
Newks_Hot_Sauce
Newks_Hot_Sauce
C
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Too hot for me
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1K
MikeUSMC
MikeUSMC
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fermenting From Fermentation to Sauce
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SmokenFire
SmokenFire
Casagordita
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substitute for blooming whole spices in oil
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The Hot Pepper
The Hot Pepper
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To strain or not to strain?
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3
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533
PtMD989
PtMD989
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Made my first brined Thai chili sauce. I had basic foundation and scaling questions.
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Chrees1280
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fermenting adding a fruit to fermented hot sauce
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ShowMeDaSauce
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F
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Is this mold
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12
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934
ShowMeDaSauce
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P
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fermenting Fermenting.... powders?
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ShowMeDaSauce
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HeatMiser
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pH Cheap vs Expensive Ph Meters
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salsalady
salsalady
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fermenting Corainder Twist (fermented Jalepeno)
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1
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635
Tybo
Tybo
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Importance of Shelf Stable for 1 lb Batch??
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sirex
sirex
PepperFish
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Pickled Fatalii Sauce
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PepperFish
PepperFish
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"Traditional" Caribbean pepper sauce
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Wrex
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Cartierusm
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First Hot Sauces
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The_NorthEast_ChileMan
The_NorthEast_ChileMan
BobcatsHotsauce
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Considering Trying A Pickled Pepperoncini Based Hot Sauce. Anyone Else Try It?
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2
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605
BobcatsHotsauce
BobcatsHotsauce
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Processed my first batch today
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Wrex
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W
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Found solid gold
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Ghost Pepper Revolution
Ghost Pepper Revolution
Newks_Hot_Sauce
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Carolina Reaper Pepper Supplier?
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Newks_Hot_Sauce
Newks_Hot_Sauce
Klaatu Barada
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bottling Bottling Machine
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4
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The_NorthEast_ChileMan
The_NorthEast_ChileMan
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Quarantine Saturday another delicious sauce
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Wrex
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Hawkins
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Thought you all might enjoy the Coyote Zan White and Pear sauce I made.
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19
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ADRUNKK
ADRUNKK
ProjectileTeeth
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fermenting Would anyone say there are certain milemarkers in fermentation?
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4
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940
Cartierusm
Cartierusm
LGHT
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fermenting Fermenting peppers with Mead or Lambic???
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1
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597
Bou
Bou
dragonsfire
Orange Hot Sauce
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2
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720
dragonsfire
dragonsfire
TattooedBullfrog
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Almost time for tabasco sauce making.
2
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dragonsfire
dragonsfire
TattooedBullfrog
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Smoking some habaneros for next batch of sauces.
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ADRUNKK
ADRUNKK
S
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fermenting Dreadie and TFM ferment
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8
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978
Heady Beer
Heady Beer
Newks_Hot_Sauce
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pH Average Shelf Life of Hot Sauce batch (below 4.0pH)
2
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21
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Bou
Bou
B
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fermenting High Salt Pepper Mash Help
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1
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782
salsalady
salsalady
Johnaton
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fermenting Why do I keep getting negative pressure in my ferments?
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5
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Bou
Bou
Z
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consistency Question regarding Sauce v Salsa and dilution.
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11
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Zhardoum
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Chorizo857_62J
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Powders
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8
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727
Chorizo857_62J
Chorizo857_62J
P
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First time using superhots - planning a sauce, opinions wanted
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5
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886
salsalady
salsalady
Johnaton
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fermenting How does Tabasco prevent mold or yeast from growing on their mash?
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3
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Tybo
Tybo
P
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Natural Crit (Ghost, Fresno, Jalapeno, Garlic)
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0
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479
Pharthan
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sister verona
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Large capacity blender
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4
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878
salsalady
salsalady
Chorizo857_62J
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Source for 5-oz woozy bottle shrink wrap
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4
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The Hot Pepper
The Hot Pepper
Sizzle Lips
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fermenting First ferment in awhile
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6
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684
Sizzle Lips
Sizzle Lips
Walchit
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Bhuthead Andy's Hot Sauce
4 5 6
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108
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Harry_Dangler
Harry_Dangler
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fermenting Can we add spices after a fermentation ?
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webcan
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Aji Lemon Drop/Yellow Mango/Pineapple Sauce
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1
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dragonsfire
dragonsfire
13stars
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pH pH Meter & Thermometer
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3
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Bou
Bou
ADRUNKK
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fermenting Fermenting dried jalapenos
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12
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974
ADRUNKK
ADRUNKK
C
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fermenting fermenting dried chillies?
2
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32
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ADRUNKK
ADRUNKK
Siv
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Stir plate and some black stuff
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12
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2K
podz
podz
U
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bottling Bottling an uncooked Commercial Hot Sauce
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10
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The Hot Pepper
The Hot Pepper
P
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For next Turkey Day.... Cranberry-Habanero?
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8
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864
Pharthan
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N
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Last batch came out too hot. How do I mellow it out?
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8
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755
PtMD989
PtMD989
S
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Need Wiri Wiri Recipe
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2
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559
sunpepper
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G
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chili oil recipe
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9
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Glen_
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Gargoyle91
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fermenting Ferment through A Juicer?
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1
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438
salsalady
salsalady
The Hot Pepper
tutorial Natural Gums info
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19
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Siv
Siv
Chili Willie
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Blueberry Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Peppersauce
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Chili Willie
Chili Willie
A
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Smoked Habaneros
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5
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LGHT
LGHT
D
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Chocolate Carolina Reaper Sauce
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1
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Deschet
D
K
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Scotch Bonnet/Bird sauce
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5
Views
649
The Hot Pepper
The Hot Pepper
S
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Black hot sauce
2
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24
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Walchit
Walchit
K
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Tools
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6
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580
ProjectileTeeth
ProjectileTeeth
flavius97
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Spicy cheese sauce
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6
Views
698
Deschet
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D
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First Sauce of the Fall
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2
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493
Deschet
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M
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How do you put these caps on the proper way?
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8
Views
958
The Hot Pepper
The Hot Pepper
Newks_Hot_Sauce
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Chipotle Peppers 101
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3
Views
539
The Hot Pepper
The Hot Pepper
HeirloomChef
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Woozy Cap Liners
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19
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Purelocal
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Tybo
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fermenting Fermented Fatalii Sauce Sucess
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SmokenFire
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Azure coast sauces
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nice.chili
nice.chili
dragonsfire
Cranberry Pinaple Mango Sauce
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12
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sirex
sirex
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What's wrong with my last year's batch?
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11
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578
SmokenFire
SmokenFire
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