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Homemade Hot Sauce Supplies

Anyone can make a sauce hot. Making a great hot sauce, thats a pepper of a different color. All sauces made with hot chili peppers are called hot sauces when, in fact, some may be considered marinades, basting, cooking or finishing sauces depending on how they are used. The secrets to making your own hot sauces are revealed.

Hot Sauce Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What causes hot sauces to foam or ferment?  How can i prevent it from happening?

A. My first guess would be that your hot sauce is not acidic enough to keep unrefrigerated.  Yeast will consume the sugars in your sauce and cause foaming and fermentation.

If the pH of your sauce is too high, a hot water bath will not be sufficient to make your sauce shelf stable.

Using pH strips is a simple way to determine if the pH of your sauce is low enough to process in a hot water bath.  We sell them at the following link:  http://www.leeners.com/wine-lab-testing.html.