u/jakeburls

Made my first fermented sauce today! I’m super happy with how the flavor came out, don’t judge me for using an old Texas Pete bottle 😂

Ingredients

- 5 orange habaneros
- 3 yellow scotch bonnets
- 6 green Serranos
- 1/2 medium yellow onion
- 1/3 clove of garlic
- 6 baby carrots
- 1 star anise

I let everything ferment for 7 days in a 3.5% brine, and then I took out all of the solids minus the anise and blended them with 4 oz of apple cider vinegar and 4 oz of the brine. I strained everything from the blender into a sauce pan and boiled it. It was a little more watery than I wanted so while it was still hot, I added the sauce back into the cleaned blender and added 1/2 teaspoon of xantham gum and then bottled it.

Hello everyone! I’m very new to making hot sauces, I’ve made a regular one out of scotch bonnets, apple, garlic, onions and carrots and it came out really good. I decided to try fermenting today and I have no experience with it other than a few things I’ve read online. Currently I have a roughly ~4% brine with the following items

4 oranges habaneros
3 scotch bonnets
7 small Serrano peppers
6 baby carrots
1/2 yellow onion
1/3 clove garlic
1 star anise

I didn’t have any kind of weight to fit in the jar so I used a ziplock bag with water to hold down the solids in the jar. Does this seem okay so far? How long do you all typically let the fermentation process go? Last question - if I want to add apple or orange to this, can I blend this together with those items and just boil them before I jar? Thanks for any help! (Don’t judge my handwriting in the photo lol)

Hello everyone, I’ve ate spicy food my entire life but lately I’ve wanted to venture into the super hots and I really don’t have much of an idea how tolerance works. I typically eat raw Serrano peppers and pickled chili peppers daily with the occasional habanero thrown in. Recently I found this hot sauce (madame gougousse scotch bonnet) and it’s been my absolute favorite, I was wondering if anyone had any guesstimates on the Scoville of it. It isn’t crazy hot or anything but I put it in everything lol.