Habanerost (HotSauce1)

Fifth or sixth time making a hot sauce, but this is the first time I've documented it. A few home grown, but not really great looking, ghost peppers and some store bought habaneros. Keeping this one simple with just peppers, water, salt, and apple cider vinegar.

Made 2 cups on 2022-10-22

Process notes

2022-11-05

Used an immersion blender directly in the stein. Poured into small pot, covered, put on hot plate, and let simmer for ~10 minutes. Strained using small strainer, put into big measuring cup. Wound up with ~2 cups of hot sauce. Filled three 5oz bottles. Nice orange color.

The following ingredients were fermented together

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1 cup of Water (RO water was boiled and dumped into the Gordon Biersch stein and let to cool while I cut up the peppers.)

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2 tablespoons of Table Salt (Dumped into the stein after the boiling water was poured in. I didn't mix it up too well. Next time, I'll put it in the pot of water to dissolve.)

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14.3 grams of Ghost Pepper (This was from 5 homegrown peppers. The weight was measured after the stems and seeds were removed. The peppers weren't great looking as there was some yellow on them.)

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173.5 grams of Habanero (~2 dozen orange habaneros from Zonattos were used. The weight was taken after they were destemmed and deseeded.)

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0.5 cups of Apple Cider Vinegar (Marukan Organic Apple Cider Vinegar w/ mother dumped into stein after water and peppers were added. Stein was then covered in aluminum foil and put in the cupboard.)

Dry additions

2022-11-05

0.25 teaspoons of Xanthan Gum. (Added straight to the stein right before blending.)

Tasting notes (7.00/10; 1 rating)

2022-11-18

[7/10] First time trying this. Dumped a bunch on some jambalaya. Not as thick as some of the others I've made, so this seems like the right amount of xanthan gum. Decent amount of vinegar, and definitely a lot of heat. I'll use this sparingly. Pretty happy with it, though.

2022-11-18

Its been about 10 minutes since first trying this and the heat is lingering. This is definitely hotter than I was expecting. Happy to have it, though