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What to do with excess hot sauce?

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So I have about 20+ bottles of open hot sauce in the fridge right now. A handful of them are ones I have no problems finishing and that I really enjoy (many from members here on this site) but what do I do with the ones that didn't quite make the cut? the rejects. The duds.. The ones with rapidly approaching expiration dates destined for crusty lids and settled contents.. Mix them all together and see what happens? I hate letting anything go to waste so perhaps a recipe that would allow me to use a bulk amount of these opened sauces in my ever expanding collection. Lets hear some thoughts. Thanks!
 
Marination is perfect, akin to using cheap wine or beer for cooking (which some chefs snub their nose at but hey). Ziploc, hot sauce, some beer, spices, mustard, whatever. Meat, seal up, in fridge.
 
Also use them to spice up BBQ sauce or ketchup. Next time you order or cook a burger and fries kick up the ketchup and mayo.
 
Lastly, bloody mary.
 
I think Crispee and The Boss both hit it on the head. Mix up a few of those suckers with some PBR and marinate a few whole chickens for the smoker or grill. Or maybe go split chickens on the grill. Come to think of it a marinated pork shoulder would be real good too while your at it.
 
Did you ever get a chance to try that corked peach sauce I sent you? Or did it scare you?
 
 
Mr.CtChilihead said:
 
Did you ever get a chance to try that corked peach sauce I sent you? Or did it scare you?
 
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I did try that one. Sorry I forgot to let you know my thoughts on it. It's got quite a kick but the flavor was really good. I think the aging did a lot for it. I haven't had it with any dishes yet but the flavor is definitely on point. There's something about a nice ferment that just brings all the flavors together. All the flavors just kinda become one.. Pretty hot though. Only a true chili head would probably appreciate it. The pineapple sauce you sent is probably one of the better sauces I've had in a while. I blew through that sauce in about a week. The ice cream sauce was really good but I don't really eat ice cream so I still have some. .
 
sicman said:
If I had stuff to use I would use it, man.
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I'm looking for ideas on what to do with sauces that i'm not necessarily fond of that are opened in my fridge. I don't want them to go to waste and I'd rather not trash them. So yea, just "using them" would be the obvious answer but when I open the fridge, i'm gonna grab something that I like. I'm looking to find uses for the sauces that I don't reach for and are gonna go bad if I don't use them.  
 
Another suggestion would be to separate the sauces into type as not all sauce work great together. Fruity flavors on one batch, more herbal green sauces in another batch. Sometimes (from experience) combinations of Sauces dont work so well.
 
Edmick said:
I've got some sauces schedule for delivery today from thegreenchilemonster. Cant' wait to give those a try. Hurry up UPS!
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You may want to pop the dripper off the scotch bonnet sauce, because you'll want to pour it faster. We crushed over a half bottle of the rocoto sauce last night with dinner. Tonight it's hot pot, and we'll probably eat through most of these two bottles of sauce.
 

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Go to the $.99 cent store and buy a few ice cube trays.
Freeze the sauces into ice cubes,put the cubes in a zip lock and use as needed.
Ya don't have to use the sauces today...
They might not be great sauces,But they might be cool for adding a couple cubes to make a recipe have an added taste that makes things work.
 
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