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Originally Posted by jmsieglaff
Do any of you huge pepper list growers make your own hot sauce? Any tricks or tips should I ever want to try it?
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I don't make it (yet), but I am a heavy user. Go for flavor first, not heat. Once you have the flavor you like it's easy enough to ramp up the heat from there.
I have single bottles of different ultra-super hot sauce and truthfully it goes bad before the bottle is half empty, only using a drop or two to add heat to different things. I think making a large batch of something like that would just be a waste unless you had a lot of friends/family that really like it super hot. Hot sauces with habanero heat or less will typically be the most consumed.
My favorite one (at the moment) is called Evil Ooze. I mix it in pasta sauce, put it on pizza and use it as a catsup substitute on burgers and dogs. Very tasty.