{"id":16450,"date":"2014-10-21T12:39:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T12:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=16450"},"modified":"2014-10-21T12:39:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T12:39:40","slug":"making-hot-sauce-is-really-pretty-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/21\/making-hot-sauce-is-really-pretty-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Making hot sauce is really pretty easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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See, hot sauce is pretty forgiving. Use fresh, spicy chiles and enough vinegar, and you\u2019ll create a condiment that will set your mouth aflame in just the way you like. You\u2019ve got four elements: chiles, acid, aromatics (carrots, onions, etc.), and salt. Get roughly the right proportions of each, and you\u2019ll wind up with something downright edible, and maybe even quite tasty.<\/p>\n

I set out to create one sauce that would follow simple principles: fresh ingredients you actually want to taste (carrots, onions, and two kinds of chiles, one hot, the other not so), simmered in a bath of white vinegar, pur\u00e9ed into a crimson slurry. Oh, and no added sugar.<\/p>\n

When you make a hot sauce this way, the most tedious part is prepping the ingredients. I shredded two fat carrots before getting bored and deciding to simply put everything else\u2014i.e., two sliced red onions, kosher salt and a pound of red jalape\u00f1os (the kind used for Sriracha) and red habaneros\u2014in a pot with a quart of white vinegar and turning the heat to medium-high. Once that had simmered for a little while, I poked in my stick blender and blitzed everything into a liquid. Done! Well, not quite. The liquid was, you know, liquidy\u2014not so much a sauce as a drizzle. Of course, it was bubbling in a pot on the stove, so I just left it there to slowly reduce, knowing that the cooking process would also temper the heat of the chiles.<\/p>\n

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See, hot sauce is pretty forgiving. Use fresh, spicy chiles and enough vinegar, and you\u2019ll create a condiment that will set your mouth aflame in just the way you like. You\u2019ve got four elements: chiles, acid, aromatics (carrots, onions, etc.), and salt. Get roughly the right proportions of each, and you\u2019ll wind up with something…<\/p>\n

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