There a many new, different and hotter sauces out there but Tabasco sauce still among my favorites. My dad got me hooked on it as a kid in the 60's when it was the ONLY hot sauce out there, at least here in Michigan!

@dmac7403

8 ай бұрын

Hottest doesn't mean best or good ,at a certain point it's to hot after a certain point it's heat and nothing else not for me .

@richardhorn7688

3 ай бұрын

Amen

@dougcornwall3046

2 ай бұрын

Lol Tabasco is not that hot. The flavor is what make Tabasco great. If it's too hot for you try packages of taco sauce.😢

@tombryant5029

Күн бұрын

I love hot and spicy. I can take quite a bit of heat. That said, I DESPISE cayenne only sauces like Frank's Red Hot or Texas Pete's. My personal favorite is Sriracha. It has a nice garlic aspect and good kick.

I'm a Tabasco freak and will be planting my peppers next spring...thanks for the confidence

I just planted my Tabasco plants, and this was basically my plan. I will be adding onion and garlic to the ferment.

@ChiliPepperMadness

4 күн бұрын

Enjoy!! It's one of my favorites.

I love the brine method - it's almost foolproof and gives really nice results. I couldn't grow enough Tabasco pods to make the sauce (С. frutescens varieties were always kind of bad with germination for me) but I use mix of multiple other varieties (Annuums, Chinense) and added vegetables like beets, garlic, onions to make ferments. It's also nice way to solve "what should I do with assorted chili harvest?" issue. Throw everything into a jar with brine and you can forget about it for six months easily, and make sauce later when you need it.

Many thanks CPM for the homemade tabasco sauce recipe. Greetings from Brazil.👏👏👏

@ChiliPepperMadness

Ай бұрын

Sure thing! Enjoy! I just visited Brazil, in Iguazu Falls and Rio. Beautiful!!!

Thank you for this recipe! I love homeade sauces.

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Very welcome - enjoy!

This guy is legit and awesome. Much love from South Australia!

@ChiliPepperMadness

9 күн бұрын

Hey, thanks! I appreciate it!

always love your shows! you make things fun and inviting in the kitchen.

@ChiliPepperMadness

3 күн бұрын

Thanks so much! I really appreciate the kind words.

Looks and sounds great, thanks !! Greetings from Germany

I have never thought about pepper fermentation. Nice example. Thank you!

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy!

Love a good fermented sauce, can’t wait to make this!

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Exciting! Hope you will enjoy it!

Thank you for showing your recipe and your making process. It was very informative. Greetings from Germany. Thumbs up 👍👍

@ChiliPepperMadness

6 ай бұрын

Thank you and enjoy!

Absolutely incredible method ...congratulations..I'm.definetly gona try this ...

@ChiliPepperMadness

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Have fun!

Oh yes very nice. Thank you for the lesson. I will most definately make it.👍👍

@ChiliPepperMadness

Ай бұрын

Have fun!

Mike thanks for sharing your Tabasco recipe I love it,, great way to make all kinds of different sauces..

@ChiliPepperMadness

2 ай бұрын

My pleasure - enjoy, Mack!

Thank you so much for sharing this video. I am looking forward to making my own tabasco sauce.

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

You are welcome - hope you'll love it!

For once, my chance to be the first. I consider it an honor. Great video. Love your Louisiana hot sauce recipe - so guess I have to try this one. Greetings from Germany

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Haha good for you! And yes - enjoy the sauce!

Nice. I am going to try this one.. Thanks for sharing

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

My pleasure 😊

Thank you Sir. This sauce looks Absolutely delicious.!!!!!!

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

My pleasure - enjoy the recipe!

This looks amazing, I wil absolutley try this! Thank you sir! I love the rest of your videos as well. I literally JUST made your cheese sauce! ❤

@ChiliPepperMadness

Ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

That was very good. I’ll stick around

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

I am glad to hear that. Enjoy!

love your content dude

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Thanks!

I believe you are the pepper master sir thanks for all you teach us..

@ChiliPepperMadness

6 ай бұрын

Just sharing the spicy food love! =)

That's amazing! Thank you very much! We do it differently in South America with our Beloved Peppers. But, I'm so delighted to see and to hear your fantastic presentation! You did good, My Brother! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾😍😍😍

@ChiliPepperMadness

Ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I LOVE so many South American dishes and sauces.

I make this every year and it makes my hubby very HAPPY! I usually get 4 32 oz. bottles and that sets us for the year! This year I am making more so I can send some to my baby brother,he also LOVES Tabasco! Thanks for the video. I think I will try it your way for 1 bottle and see how it goes with my hubby. ✝🛐

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

Sounds great! I love it!

Love your channel man! Very informative and inspiring to take a crack at some capsaicin concoctions!

@ChiliPepperMadness

10 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Thank you I loved your easy informations.

@ChiliPepperMadness

5 ай бұрын

You are very welcome!

Beautiful sauce, man! 🍻

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

definitely will try this! I am growing tabasco peppers on my patio! Hoping to get a yield before we get snow.

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Fingers crossed. Hope you will enjoy it!

Nice work!

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Thanks this is great!

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

You are very welcome - enjoy!

Very inspiring. I will make my own hot sauce this weekend. There is no Tabasco pods here in but I am using the other varieties that quite common in Java. Thank you so much.

@ChiliPepperMadness

6 ай бұрын

You are very welcome - have fun!

I love doing lactic fermentation 🙂 At the moment I have 2 fermentations: One is habanero peppers that I will use to make a sauce with pineapple, ginger, garlic and cilantro; the second is cherry peppers to make a very simple sauce with garlic and cilantro and something else I haven't decided yet (maybe mango or jam). Of course, I will use the brine instead of vinegar when I make the sauces. I love cherry peppers. They might have less heat but a lot of flavor. When I ferment I don't use fancy lids. I like to burp it by slightly unscrewing the jar. The amount of CO2 in the jar is a clear indicator of the bacteria activity. When I get almost no CO2 from burping, it is time to make sauce 😝 Also, I believe the term you were looking for when you were talking about the brine is a selective environment. I'm a biochemist who works in a chemistry/microbiology lab, so it is a term we use regularly 🤓

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

I love it! Keep it simple!

at 8:21, if you want to stop the fermentation without altering the flavor of your sauce, the trick is to freeze it. Water expends when it freezes, so the water inside the bacteria will expend and break their cellular membrane. The other solution is to cook it (I noticed that you mentionned cooking at 14:00). I sometimes cook it when it is the flavor profile I want. the heat wil caramelize the sugars. It will change the sauce completely.

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Great input. I usually like to cook mine for that very reason. Personal taste, though.

@TheAnnoyingBoss

Ай бұрын

I just dont like to freeze my food. It changes the consistency. I mean im not a complainer i will eat a bag of frozen tator tots and bbq sauce straight up but you freeze and thaw a steak and cook it its nit the same as if you go buy it cook it that day. You freeze and thaw your stuff and you loose it

@ActionGamerAaron

15 күн бұрын

@@TheAnnoyingBoss I thought we were talking about peppers, not meat.

I love Tabasco! 😋

@ChiliPepperMadness

6 ай бұрын

Me, too!

Most outstanding!!!

@ChiliPepperMadness

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Thanks a lot! My favorite sauce! I will do it!)

@ChiliPepperMadness

6 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy! Fun to play with the recipe, too.

Im a Tabasco collector and fan. I grow and use them as wwll in powder and fresh forms. Thank you for this as well as the links for fermentation. 👍🏻

@ChiliPepperMadness

3 күн бұрын

You are very welcome! I am glad those were helpful.

Nice recipe and video, subscribed.

@ChiliPepperMadness

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 🙂

I’m definitely growing more Tabasco plants next year. They are just such great producers with plenty of heat and their peculiar flavor that only they have. They did great even in the horrible heat in SW Louisiana we had this year.

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

Great plan for sure. Go for it!

Great job, 👍 I like 6 month fermentations but to each their own. Keep it up, sir.

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Good job man👍👍👍🌹 thanks😁

@ChiliPepperMadness

3 күн бұрын

Thank you too!

I recently discovered Louisiana Pure Crystal Hot Sauce. It is my new favorite mild hot sauce. It tastes like a combination of Tabasco and Franks to me. I have some habanero and banana peppers fermenting with some garlic now that I plan to use to make a Sambal Oelek type of paste. I’ll have a video of it on my channel in a week or so. I might have to plant some Tabasco plants next year and try your recipe.

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

I love it! Crystal is a great brand.

Great to see multiple cool peppers 🌶️ hot to super hot made in the cabinet than use it for multiple dishes :)

Nice video!

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Tabasco is the greatest Hot Sauce ever invented! I recently visited the Factory and my addiction to it increased drastically!

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

Awesome! Give the homemade version a try.

Tabasco sauce m favorite thank you

I have made quick stove top vinegar type hot sauces, but fermented is what I make the most in love the most.

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Amazing!

I made this for the first time it turned out great. I did use some of the brine and omitted the extra salt and water

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

I am glad to hear that - enjoy!

Great video! One tip, you do not need any special covers for the Ball jars during fermentation, just screw on the lid, and keep it in a cool dark place. The jars are made to deal with the CO2 gas that is produced, and will not burst. I've been making sauerkraut this way for years, with great results, and without a single "fatality"!!

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! And thanks for the input!

I will definitely try this but I love real Tabasco so this will be interesting to experiment with. Thank you for the video and recipe! ✌️

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

Can't wait to try it- maybe have to use some other peppers as Tabasco is hard to find where I live.

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

Hope you will enjoy!

I started sweating watching this! Got sixty chilli plants from seeds this year so will be making all sorts of varieties of sauce this year.. great video

@ChiliPepperMadness

29 күн бұрын

Wonderful! Enjoy!

I like your presentation

@ChiliPepperMadness

6 ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

Thank you ❤

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Welcome!

Sup mike, that's awesome, I've tried many years ago fermenting chilies in general, wasn't good result lol, the equipment today didn't know, this was such an eye opener lol. Live tobbasco, tyvm tc 🌶️

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Thank you, Ronald! I am glad!

Looks pretty legit. Tabasco is my favorite hot sauce.

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

Enjoy the recipe!

Just made my 3rd batch this year. I opted to cook this batch today. So it'll last longer. And maybe send some back to my son in law for Christmas.

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Nice. I love it.

Another great recipe to make thank you Chef , Might add some smoked oil I made recently 😊

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

A nice addition!

Great video.....I grow Siling Labayo peppers. basically, a tobasco pepper that grew wild in the Philippines. It is 3x's spicer and make a great sauce

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Solid procedure. I make a lot of fermented sauces but haven’t seen my brine turn a brown color like yours did. Maybe it was just the lighting. Or maybe slightly different bacteria in your environment

Absolutely love fermenting things! This is going on the list for sure. Thanks for sharing! Do you have a sriracha recipe? P.S. I made your mustard. Killer! Ketchup is next.

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Great, thanks! I do have a Sriracha Hot Sauce recipe here: www.chilipeppermadness.com/chili-pepper-recipes/hot-sauces/homemade-sriracha-hot-sauce-recipe/

Thanks a lot.

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

Most welcome!

I did not have a great Tabasco harvest last year. The year before was great and I bottled several bottles of the green pepper sauce. I still have one bottle left. This year, I started 16 Tabasco seeds and they all germinated. I am hoping to have a much better harvest this year.

@ChiliPepperMadness

27 күн бұрын

I hope you will! Keep me posted.

I had a mash that I did in the fridge. Got lost for 6 months, it was fabulous. I usually go for 3-4 months in the cellar and boy howdy good stuff. I think the longer ferments are better, well rounded.

@ChiliPepperMadness

3 күн бұрын

Yes, thanks for sharing your experience.

thank you

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Welcome!

looks amazing! I wonder if we can use dried chillies.

@ChiliPepperMadness

6 ай бұрын

You certainly can. I have a video on How to Make Hot Sauce with Dried Chilies: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oKab2ciMYqjXmqw.html. If you want to ferment, though, you might need a fermentation starter, or you can add in some fresh chilies to get it going. Enjoy!

Thank you so much for your channel and all the useful videos/recipes! 💜👍 I grew Armageddon peppers this year and am not fully sure what to do with them as, for me, they’re too hot on their own 😂🤪👍

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

I have a lot of recipes in the site to help! Definitely good to preserve them in a way that you can use them sparingly.

@clancycreations

8 ай бұрын

@@ChiliPepperMadness Thank you! These are tear gas minis 😂💜👍

Tobasco is my absolute favorite hot sauce (original). I have a history book on it. It has recipes from the south. I haven't tried but two other flavors, jalapeño and chipotle. Both are delish.

@ChiliPepperMadness

3 ай бұрын

Yum indeed!

Thank u its necessary to use glass or not

Easy and straight to the point! What kind of ph meter you have there?

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

I have one from ThermoWorks. I'm an affiliate there. Works great.

Hi there. I love your recipes, have made a few and always turn out amazing! I have followed this fermentation process for 600g green peppers (scotch, habanero and lemon drop). I'm a day away from draining but wondered if you could advise an approximate ratio for vinegar to peppers, or should i just go by taste? Don't have a ph meter. Thanks.

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

I would probably start with 1-2 cups, then check and adjust from there. The recipe calls for 1 cup or so with far fewer peppers, but it's better to start low then add to your preferred flavor and consistency. Enjoy!

Have you done a Chili Pequin Sauce? Love your Channel! Cheers! From Southeast Texas!

@ChiliPepperMadness

2 ай бұрын

Not yet! Hopefully soon!

Have you ever had biomass escape those silicone self burping lids? I know when I do cabbage, particulars rise with the foam and can prevent the seal from staying sealed

As a South African I have grown and made hot sauces for ages. I LOVE the stuff.....but.....Next morning in that "little white room? Well... the THREE TENORS in their heyday? Got NOTHING on me!!! 😆

@hefner1322

7 ай бұрын

Cringe

@I_drive_porsches

7 ай бұрын

Lmao 🔥🔥🔥

Great looking guy.

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

Haha, thanks!

Thx. Thailand. Chiangmai.

@ChiliPepperMadness

6 ай бұрын

👍👍

Hello. What is the ratio of vinegar to pulp? Weight and volume?

I watch your videos and I love them. I would much appreciate it if you could bring the Scoville’a scale when talking about hottnes of the peppers and the final product Tabasco I know is about 3000 Scoville’a im looking for something a little bit hotter but no more than 10000 Scoville’a

Fantastic as always Mike!! Tabasco is what I’ve always called “the standard”. It’s kind of what I compare a lot of hot sauces to. It’s still one of my dreams to visit Avery Island and take the tour of the facility. 👍

@jr2904

8 ай бұрын

I loved it because my grandfather loved it, but I was a weird kid who liked onions and stuff like that.

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Thank you - I appreciate it!

True Tabasco sauce by the McIlhenny family on Avery Island Louisiana is the best pepper sauce going IMHO. Any other sauce using tabasco peppers might make a nice sauce too, but unless you are aging it in oak barrels for a few years, and using the McIlhenny family recipe, it won't be the same. I have been gardening for 50 years, and have been making my own pepper sauce about that long too. Using tabasco and other peppers (lately Datil peppers running about 200,000 to 300,000 on the Scoville scale which my son and I grow and sell in Florida) And I make some very good ones with their own really nice flavor profiles... but they aren't Tabasco from the original. That one is unique indeed.

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

No, definitely not the exact same. They have their process down. However, I DO love the flavor of this sauce on its own, and really love home grown tabasco peppers. So good. I LOVE datils as well. GREAT peppers. I've been thinking of doing my own datil sauce. I just visited St. Augustine. Datils everywhere!

@tvideo1189

7 ай бұрын

@@ChiliPepperMadness It surprises me that the Datil pepper is so little known outside the NE Florida area. The flavor is unique and makes a GREAT hot sauce. My son and I are growing Datil peppers from seed acquired from people maintaining the original strain as best they could. Of course, genetics behaving the way they do, I really don't know how true they have bred over all these decades... but wow, they are really nice peppers. I do know that extensive scientific research on the DNA of these peppers has definitively shown this strain to be from the original St. Augustine peppers because they are found nowhere else in the world. The Minorcan settlers in this region grew them extensively, but the Datil did NOT come from Minorca despite local folklore. Try them, easy to grow and use. They don't store well so converting to sauces, etc. is really the best use. Pick when yellow or BARELY starting to go red, don't let them grow much longer than that on the plant.

Made this last week and a Jalapeño version today. I kept the brine in mine, so so tasty. The Jalapeno version I kept the fine pulp in it for a slightly chunkier taco hot sauce. Really tasty. How long of a shelf life should I expect on this? I'm hoping to give hot sauces for xmas this year.

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

Thank you, Neo. There is a lot of vinegar in this, so it really should last many months, even outside of the refrigerator. Just keep an eye on it. If you see any growths, etc, toss it. The acidic environment is a good preservative.

Fermented foods are healthy for us. Going to make this one too 😂 👍

@GwennyDove272

5 ай бұрын

Just watched your pepper mash…. Super excited to make that too😊

Use white painters tape when labeling, it comes off without leaving residue and will let you write on it with pen or pencil.

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

Great tip!

We absolutely love your channel. There is a state in Mexico named, "Tabasco." Is this pepper originally from there?

@jr2904

8 ай бұрын

👍

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Yep! I have info on that here: www.chilipeppermadness.com/chili-pepper-types/medium-hot-chili-peppers/tabasco-chili-peppers/

Nice sir, what it taste will like sambal (indonesia sambal?)

@ChiliPepperMadness

6 ай бұрын

There are some similar flavors, but this hot sauce is more of a finishing sauce, much more vinegary.

Mike, does the fermentation process tame the heat of the chili’s at all?

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

It tames it a LITTLE, but really more mellows things out. You'll still get plenty of heat.

Hello, Thank you for sharing your recipe and information about making Tabasco, I love Tabasco , now you give me the opportunity to try this recipe my self. Becouse of your great vidio step by step how to make your own Tabasco . I did the Tabasco you show us on that vidio. The Tabasco that I made comes good thanks for you but I have a question why my Tabaco come red in colour like a tomato sauce? The colour of your vidio is more original colour... (Orange Yellow) not red? Is that ok that mine comes Red in colour?

@ChiliPepperMadness

4 ай бұрын

Thank you, Manuel. The exact shade of red can vary slightly depending on factors like the ripeness of the peppers and the production process. So you are absolutely OK. Congrats on making your own sauce!

I find it interesting that the stick blender didn't break down the seeds. When I puree my fermentations in a normal blender, the seeds get obliterated and give my sauces lots of unattractive white specs that are too small to strain even with fine mesh. I will give my stick blender a try for the next batch.

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

It works great with my stick blender.

Do you think dried rehydrated chilli peppers would work? They are not in season right now, but I have some that I dried.

@ChiliPepperMadness

6 ай бұрын

Yep, you can ferment dried pods. You might need a starter to get fermentation going, or you can use a mix of dried and fresh peppers.

During the winter times, specially at holiday season, I like to make my own mustard, and you can spice it up with some chili. Here in Finland, we make ham at the eve of x-mas, and it'd be coated with mustard and breadcrumbs. Just a thought, if you want to make a seasonal chili video. 😉

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

I love it!

@galelivelsberger7473

6 ай бұрын

Wow, how do you make mustard

Hello! I want to bottle and seal them to keep them at room temperature, could you please show me how to keep them at room temperature longer and how long it could last that way. I really like your videos. greetings !!

@ChiliPepperMadness

16 күн бұрын

Look up the water bath method of preservation. I have some information here that applies to hot sauce as well: www.chilipeppermadness.com/cooking-with-chili-peppers/how-to-pickle-chili-peppers/

Nothing beats Tabasco on spaghetti in my opinion.

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

Enjoy!

We have a lot of peppers that aren’t fully ripe still green but it is going to freeze tonight! Can we still use this same method?

@ChiliPepperMadness

7 ай бұрын

Yes, this will work with unripe peppers.

Thanks again for another great recipe. On another subject though I was wondering how you keep your different peppers from cross breeding. I understood if 2species are less than a mile and a half apart they will 'cross breed'?

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Yes, they can wind up crossing, so some people use nets to keep things separated. Currently I just acquire new seeds every year to grow different peppers.

@nopigeon

8 ай бұрын

thanks Mike. My husband didn't want the habanero peppers crossing with his favorite datil peppers. Should I tell him datils ARE habaneros?@@ChiliPepperMadness

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Haha, well, datils are definitely a pepper of their own. I was just in St. Augustine. They sure LOVE them there!

@nopigeon

8 ай бұрын

that's where I buy my datil plants. I live about an hour south of St A.Thanks@@ChiliPepperMadness

Great stuff...Neelan from SOUTH AFRICA

@ChiliPepperMadness

Ай бұрын

Thanks!!

Vinegar releases some of the chemical potential of salt, which will then capture any calcium ions ("hardness") in your water as harmless calcium chloride, a salt often added to keep pickles firm... so if you have hard water, it can be helpful to add a splash of vinegar to the brine *before* fermentation.

Salted ground chili all the way in a chili mash - the brine gives you more risk of mould , less moisture the better. I do it with raw salted chili mash and ferment for 4 weeks then mix the concentrate with vinegar and it comes out great, fermentation stops at a certain point - Tobasco let it mature after the fermentation has run its course further for a few years. and that is the signature flavour.

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Sounds great. =)

Can I use himalayan pink salt for the brine?

@ChiliPepperMadness

4 ай бұрын

Yes you can.

Been wanting to make this, but the tabasco plant I grew is a dud. Hopefully I'll have one as prolific as yours next season. Concerning the brine, it's best to explain the water/salt ratio by weight instead of volume. Around 3% salt is good, so 30 grams of salt to 1 kilo of water for example. Could go a little higher to give bad microbes even less of a chance, though this will slow down the fermentation process.

@ChiliPepperMadness

8 ай бұрын

Lot more info on the site for this. Just easier in writing for me. Best.