Hot Sauces

[flyinglentris]

@flyinglentris worked in the Intelligence Center on a US aircraft carrier. He probably can't tell you too much - at least not without shooting you after. Hush hush stuff

Working in intelligence doesn't make you a spy or an enforcer. You just keep your mouth shut.

 

[CraigC]

I said that I may be behind the times.

Which don't match?

And it does state "The following table shows the approximate SHUs of various types of popular chili peppers"

Anchos are a dried chili, poblano I believe. Serranos don't look like what is pictured. The one pictured in its place looks like a ripe Fresno.

 

[ElizabethB]

Working in intelligence doesn't make you a spy or an enforcer. You just keep your mouth shut.

I was messing with @morning glory

 

[flyinglentris]

Is that what happens when you eat too much chilli sauce?

Seriously though, chilli can actually cause tremors or even fits if taken in massive quantities. Generally speaking the effect is good - chilli causes release of endorphins which produce a feel good factor.

I photographed with a small Canon Powershot SX100 in low light. Flash was objectionable as it caused overexposure. I didn't want to drag my Canon 5D out for this. I wasn't purposed to be artsy.

 

[flyinglentris]

I was messing with @morning glory

I took no offense and did not mean that you should keep your mouth shut. Keep speak'n up and putting in your comments. I enjoy them.

 

[CraigC]

No one has mentioned it, but did you know many hot sauces are made with fermented chili mash?

 

[flyinglentris]

No one has mentioned it, but did you know many hot sauces are made with fermented chili mash?

You make me wonder whether this is traditional or industrial?

 

[CraigC]

You make me wonder whether this is traditional or industrial?

Many home sauce brewers use a mash.

 

[flyinglentris]

Many home sauce brewers use a mash.

So it's traditional.

@CraigC

You do a couple things that I would like to try, making your own chili salsas being one of them. Your making of your sausages being another. I hope I can find time to try these things with more success than my only attempt to do a Habanero salsa.

 

[ElizabethB]

The regional hot sauce producers (Tabasco, Louisiana Hot Sauce) use a mash. After processing the hot sauce they sell the mash to restaurants serving boiled seafood. It is used to season the boiling water.

 

[CraigC]

So it's traditional.

@CraigC

You do a couple things that I would like to try, making your own chili salsas being one of them. Your making of your sausages being another. I hope I can find time to try these things with more success than my only attempt to do a Habanero salsa.

I tend to stay away from words like traditional and authentic. They imply that the recipe and method are the only way something is made. Those words, IMO, are used when talking/discussing family recipes.

The mash is made to intensify flavor and can stretch a little amount of the main ingredient.

 

[Morning Glory]

No one has mentioned it, but did you know many hot sauces are made with fermented chili mash?

No I didn't. It makes sense. Fermentation is bound to intensify flavour.

 

[Morning Glory]

After processing the hot sauce they sell the mash to restaurants serving boiled seafood. It is used to season the boiling water.

That is something I didn't know - very interesting.

 

[Morning Glory]

The mash is made to intensify flavor and can stretch a little amount of the main ingredient.

Is the word 'mash' synonymous with fermenting? Just wondered. Its not a word we use very much in the UK except for mashed potatoes! I'm assuming that Tabasco is made from a fermentation process, for example.

 

[CraigC]

Is the word 'mash' synonymous with fermenting? Just wondered. Its not a word we use very much in the UK except for mashed potatoes! I'm assuming that Tabasco is made from a fermentation process, for example.

Well bourbon is often called Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey. Yes I believe that mash is always associated with fermentation.