Hot Sauce as Xmas Gifts

[WestPennineSpice]

It's my first year making hot sauce, and I've decided to give them as presents. I sourced 50 8oz glass sauce online online pretty cheap.

This is my red hot sauce: red long chillies, garlic, ginger, cardamom, and salt. Fermented in brine for 5 weeks. Mixed with cider vinegar, lemon, and red bell pepper.

I'm also making a hot scotch mango bonnet sauce (pics to follow).

 

[SmokenFire]

Great looking sauce and I dig those square bottles WestPennineSpice! 

 

[D3monic]

It's my first year making hot sauce, and I've decided to give them as presents. I sourced 50 8oz glass sauce online online pretty cheap.

This is my red hot sauce: red long chillies, garlic, ginger, cardamom, and salt. Fermented in brine for 5 weeks. Mixed with cider vinegar, lemon, and red bell pepper.

I'm also making a hot scotch mango bonnet sauce (pics to follow).

Where you get the bottles?

 

[WestPennineSpice]

Where you get the bottles?

Www.freemanandharding.co.uk

 

[D3monic]

Www.freemanandharding.co.uk

Oh darn. UK based.

Sauces look great especially in their packaging

 

[WestPennineSpice]

Thank you very cheap too. Worked out about 35p a bottle.

 

[WestPennineSpice]

This is my mango hot sauce: scotch bonnets fermented for 5 weeks with salt and garlic, blitzed and added to mango pulp with a little citric acid.

 

[Edmick]

I believe the common name for them is quadra bottles. Here's some I found on amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Clear-Glass-Quadra-Bottles-250ml/dp/B00P1KC27S

 

[salsalady]

Bottles-
 
good looking sauces, WestP~.  You will have fun at the holidays.  Print up some fun labels with the ingredients, nice ribbon, Win!

 

[WestPennineSpice]

Bottles-
 
good looking sauces, WestP~.  You will have fun at the holidays.  Print up some fun labels with the ingredients, nice ribbon, Win!

Already got them designed. They will be presented in these homemade boxes, and with the other items on the list - pickle, chutney, jam and salt.

 

[hottoddy]

Nice. I've been making hot sauce based on safety tutorials here for about 10 years but never sell it (too much regulation, costs, etc.). So, I give out a lot for gifts to neighbors, friends, co-workers ... no one has ever gotten sick. Sometimes I get an email from an old friend saying, "Yeah, I'm still using that sauce from 4 years ago."    To which I reply, "Throw it out now, I'll send you a fresh batch." I do date my labels and say to pitch after a year, but it's nice to know they held up that long. So, that's one thing you might want to add to the label.
 
 

 

[WestPennineSpice]

Thanks hottoddy. I have mentioned on the menu that will be in the presentation box when to ditch it. If I give them as presents regularly I will put proper nutrition and expiration labels on.

 

[salsalady]

That looks like a wonderful gift pack.  Your friends and family are in for a real treat.

 

[The Hot Pepper]

I definitely like those red ones as Christmas gifts, just imagine a label with a Christmas lights design.... "This sauce will light you up! Merry Christmas!"

 

[D3monic]

I believe the common name for them is quadra bottles. Here's some I found on amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Clear-Glass-Quadra-Bottles-250ml/dp/B00P1KC27S

They are fairly pricey but I ordered a 12 pack this morning to try out. I do like how OPs looks and agree they would make nice gifts

 

[internationalfish]

Well done! Those definitely look delicious; great presentation, and the recipes sound really good.

 

[Walchit]

Very nice!

 

[WestPennineSpice]

So my xmas gift box is ready.....I made 16 in total cost around £100 so £6.25 per person isn't bad.

 

[The Hot Pepper]

I think anyone would appreciate THAT!

 

[BlackFatalii]

Very nice looking gift box!