Mild Scorpion Pepper Sauce?

[petersm2]

Hi, I need some advice. I was given three scorpion peppers and I'm trying to figure out what to do with them. Rather than make a small batch of hot sauce that burns holes in your mouth I was wondering if I could make a very large batch that was somewhat milder. I love hot food, but I also like to be able to eat my food. Also, I was thinking about bottling and giving away a lot of it as gifts.
 
I was thinking about making a huge pot of sauce, slicing each scorpion pepper in half and then adding them...or something along those lines. I want a good spicy sauce but not an extreme sauce. Or maybe making a sauce without any hots, then bottling into small jars and adding a sliver or two of scorption pepper to each? I don't know, I have never made hot sauce before so any ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

 

[sirex]

I can make a quart of sauce with two superhots that is good for me but too hot for others. 
 
If it was me, I would make the sauce and then add in the peppers a little at a time. Remember you can always add more. It is infinitely harder too take away!!!
 
Example. Make the sauce however you want to and then add one pepper. Blend it all together and taste. Then, if more heat is desired, add a half a pepper. Then if more heat is desired add a quarter pepper. Do that until you get where you want.

 

[SavinaRed]

You could use 1 superhot per quart of sauce and have a nice heat while using other milder peppers such as habs, thai, serrano, jalapeno etc.....I mix many different kinds of peppers to make sauces all the time. Sometimes I will make a pepper specific sauce like a moruga, reaper, yellow 7 pot, choc hab etc........
 
What I find most people like from my experiments is having a citrus/fruit flavor(orange, lemon,lime,peach,apricot, pineapple, mango,papaya, berries etc....) with some honey, agave or brown sugar to give it a sweet/hot profile along with the citrus. I like to add various kinds of sweet peppers from my garden, carrots to my sauces. Garlic and onion are also good ingredients in sauces. You can add ginger, cilantro and whatever else you want and see how you like the taste. Its always fun to play around and tweak your recipes to come up with different things and see what others like. What you might consider medium heat others might think it hot or even mild. Also you will find this hobby to be very addicting.

 

[cone9]

Scroll down to the White Lightning.  I made a variant of this and it is wonderful.  This thread will give you a good idea for ingredient proportions.
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/42584-peach-surprise/?hl=%2Bpeach+%2Bsurprise
 
As RS suggested, make the sauce without peppers or maybe just 1/2 of a pepper (remove the seeds and septum).  Put in the frig overnight and then taste to see how you like it. Then you you add more pepper as you see fit.  
 
I made my first half dozen sauces this year and have really enjoyed the process.  Have fun.

 

[oldsalty]

Once you go down the Hot Sauce road there's no turning back. This is one seriously addictive habit. And the great members of THP are the dealers Have fun and read all posts best site out there lots of fun. Look to all the vendors to help with peppers and pepper based supplies. Till you start your own garden the next addiction.lol