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Excess Hot Sauce? :)

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Ncage1974

Well i had LOTS of great looking peppers this weekend and since i have about a month to harvest all the peppers i decided to go crazy on hot sauce making yesterday. I made about 12 quarts of different types of hot sauce. This is the most hot sauce i have ever made. I have a food saver with the canning attachment that sucks all the air out of the canning jar. Do you guys think the hot sauce would be good for say a year as long as i used the food saver attachment and kept it in the fridge or do you think i needs to be canned. As you can tell i'm trying to save myself from canning but i have to i have to. 
 
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Ncage
 
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Ncage, without knowing the ingredients of the sauces or the pH of the sauces, the only safe way to keep the sauces for up to a year is to pressure can in regular canning jars (if you want to store in the pantry) or freeze. 
 
Even in the fridge, sauces can go bad if there's not enough acids in the sauce.  And Hot Water Bath is also not good enough unless you know for sure the pH is low enough (aka- you know for sure there's enough acids in the sauce by following an approved recipe). 
 
Be Safe~
salsalady
 
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salsalady said:
Ncage, without knowing the ingredients of the sauces or the pH of the sauces, the only safe way to keep the sauces for up to a year is to pressure can in regular canning jars (if you want to store in the pantry) or freeze. 
 
Even in the fridge, sauces can go bad if there's not enough acids in the sauce.  And Hot Water Bath is also not good enough unless you know for sure the pH is low enough (aka- you know for sure there's enough acids in the sauce by following an approved recipe). 
 
Be Safe~
salsalady
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Ya not sure of the exact ph. I probably used 3/2 ratio of water to vinegar but i guess to be safe i will pressure can what i won't use in the next couple of months this week. I guess i was just being lazy :P.
 
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Nothing wrong with being lazy (I'm basically lazy myself, which is why I've figured out some great labor-saving methods for doing electrical work and food processing~~ :D )  ...but there's no short cuts when safety is involved. 
 
Keep the sauce refrigerated until you can re-process it. 
 
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