Make your own tabasco-style sauce at home!

This was my family’s secret for yeas but now it’s time to be revealed…

Ingredients:
-3.2 pounds of red hot peppers (any type, but i would recommend chili or thai)
-21 fl oz vinegar
-2 teaspoons salt
-2 teaspoons sugar

Method:
Put on a pair of rubber gloves (and I also recommend a doctor’s mask) open the window and place the peppers in a blender with some white vinegar(1-2 oz is ok). Don't place the whole stuff in the blender. Instead, try to blend the peppers by 1 pound each time.

Find a large bottle, able to contain aprox. 1,30 gallons and fill it with the “red hot pulp” you' ve just created, using a funnel. Fill the one third of the bottle. Fill the rest of the bottle with the rest white vinegar and leave a space of 2 inches from the bottle’s mouth (for 3 pounds of peppers you need 21 ounces of vinegar). Add salt and sugar.

Seal the bottle with wax and place it in dark, dry place at least for 2 years (I recommend to stick a label with the production date on it, so that you will know when you are going to open it.


Straining the hot stuff (2 years later...)

Use an alight candle to melt the wax seal and open the cap. Use a metal strainer to strain the pulp in a jug or jar. Do not try to strain it in another bottle at once, because the pulp is too thick and the thin red liquid will overflow the bottle externally. Ok, now you' ve got the HOT sauce you dreamed off.


Tip:

Do not throw away the strained pulp. You can keep it in a jar in your refrigerator to spice any food you prefer hot. It's very hot, so be careful with the quantities.

Cheers!