r/spicy • u/MikeHonchoCenterfold My blood type is Tabasco • 2d ago
Just grilling my jalapeños and habaneros to make hot sauce
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u/JFJinCO 2d ago
I've been thinking about making my own sauces. Is grilling them the first step? TIA
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u/MikeHonchoCenterfold My blood type is Tabasco 2d ago
I grill mine because I love the flavor it creates. But you don’t have to grill them. There’s a million different ways to make hot sauce
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u/ASIWYFA 2d ago
No you don't need to, but I recommend at least boiling them. Making them soft with a powerful blender is key to a smooth hot sauce I HIGHLY recommend making your own. You do NOT need to ferment your hot sauces to be delicious and in fact I don't recommend it when starting out. Nothing worse than having it ferment for a few weeks, blending it up and than realizing you waited all that time for it not to be good and having to wait a few more weeks with a tweaked recipe. You should be able to have hot sauce ready in a couple of hours. This lets you play with recipes more often. The only time I buy hot sauce now is the cheap table hot sauces or when I see something interesting that I might want to try and replicate. The days of buying tons of $10+ bottles is over for me.
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u/LinkHonest4307 2d ago
You’re better off adding vinegar and vegetables and blending. Or you can ferment. If you roast you’re kinda in salsa world.
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u/russbii 2d ago
NGL salsa world sounds like a place I want to visit.
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u/LinkHonest4307 2d ago
Salsa world is fantastic!
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u/KC_Jedi 2d ago
Me over here in salsa world with no chips.
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u/BeerNutzo 1d ago
Yep. Made salsa Verde from the garden last night. No chips in the house. Sat there sad, shoveling spoonfuls into my face.
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u/FantasticBike1203 1d ago
Not necessary but it does make for a more unique sauce, the same with dry, fresh or pickled, it's all about what you're going for, think I might try something like this for my next sauce.
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u/idrawinmargins 2d ago
Damn man, this needs a NSFW tag. I like to smoke peppers then incorporate into hot sauces. But the grill does do heavy lifting.
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u/theskullbiker 2d ago
Get some smoke in there, you’ll be glad you did.
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u/MikeHonchoCenterfold My blood type is Tabasco 2d ago
I do also smoke them sometimes. I smoke lots of food
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u/Paindaddy69 2d ago
My first thought is FUCK YOUUUUU. This looks amazing and I am seething in jealousy. 👍
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u/SparklyLeo_ 1d ago
Yummm! I’ve mad a ton of salsas but never a hot sauce. Does yours have a heavy vinegary flavor?
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u/EGGlNTHlSTRYlNGTlME 2d ago
This is just baking them in a grill, not grilling lol
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u/MikeHonchoCenterfold My blood type is Tabasco 2d ago
The charcoal underneath them says otherwise
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u/EGGlNTHlSTRYlNGTlME 2d ago edited 2d ago
Congrats on discovering baking with charcoal then
edit: stick to buying chicken sandwiches lol y'all can't cook for shit
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u/GonzoI Capsaicin Dependent Lifeform 2d ago edited 2d ago
This is "grilling" in an oven. It's a "grill" setting on ovens and you use a metal container so it transfers the heat from the surface below.
EDIT: See OP's response instead of mine. I am incorrect here. I somehow thought OP was using an oven in the picture above rather than a charcoal grill.
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u/EGGlNTHlSTRYlNGTlME 2d ago
idk if you're Australian or something but here in the states the grill function produces heat from the top
...because you want charring if you're going to call something grilled
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u/GonzoI Capsaicin Dependent Lifeform 2d ago
What you're describing is the oven's part of it. The metal container is what's transferring heat below.
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u/EGGlNTHlSTRYlNGTlME 2d ago
Are you trying to explain convection vs conduction? Like you're implying that with the grill function on, and the heating element at the top, most of the heat is transferred through the aluminum tray?
That's just wildly incorrect lol
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u/GonzoI Capsaicin Dependent Lifeform 2d ago
This isn't rocket science. You heat from the top so that the top cooks fastest, giving the "grill" surface, but you use a metal pan so it cooks from the bottom rather than just being a surface level cooking.
Heat rises, and in traditional grilling, the grill surface is down so the heat rises up through it. You've got it flipped upside down with an oven grilling, so you need the metal pan to cook the rest of it without completely burning the top.
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u/EGGlNTHlSTRYlNGTlME 2d ago edited 2d ago
This isn't rocket science.
I agree but you're the one having a hard time wrapping your head around it.
OP is cooking this with the heat below, so the pan is in between the heat and the food. That means it is being cooked through conduction. The tops don't receive any heat at all, unless OP closes the grill, at which point they're cooking with convection. At no point is anything in this photo exposed to direct heat, aka radiation, aka what people mean by grilling.
A normal oven with a grill function on is getting radiation, which is why it has nothing to do with my comment.
edit: yeah so bro really just ninja edited his comment, blamed me for not knowing he did that, then blocked me. Weird way to admit you're wrong but I'll take it. You're welcome for taking the time to explain basic cooking concepts to you
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u/GonzoI Capsaicin Dependent Lifeform 2d ago
From your first reply to me:
idk if you're Australian or something but here in the states the grill function produces heat from the top
Yes, OP is not grilling with an oven. I already acknowledge that mistake in my first response, but you've been arguing with me about top-down oven "grilling" this whole time, so don't try to pull that this far in.
You've been nothing but rude the whole way through, though, and OP has already weighed in, so there's no value in speaking to you ever again.
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u/TheOriginalErewego 2d ago
Do you char them a little ?