Bottles for home-made hot sauce wanted

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Hi Dave:I just found your site, and I am hoping my question falls within your expertise. We are having a huge harvest of hot peppers in our garden this year. We are drying the Cayenne, Hades Hot, and Charleston Hot, but we have two varieties of habeneros which we would like to make into a hot sauce similar to what …

Jamaican Chiles, Rev. John Lindsay, 1767

When Hot Sauce is a Cure: Mandram and Asher Sauce

Dave DeWitt Chiles and Health Leave a Comment

Many folk remedies are made with chile peppers, as I detailed with two coauthors in The Healing Powers of Peppers (Three Rivers Pres, 1998). We discovered chile peppers being used in infusions, syrups, teas, tinctures, liniments, ointments, poultices, salves, and oils. Perhaps the most unusual treatments were two hot sauces, one to improve the appetite and the other to combat …

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Rebuilding Haiti One Pepper at a Time: Bel Soley Hot Sauce

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Written by Kelli Bergthold Food shots by Wes NamanFarm and hot sauce images courtesy Bel Soley Starting a business in the best of circumstances can be difficult; starting one in the wake of a major natural disaster can be nearly impossible. When the now-infamous 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti’s capital of Port au Prince on January 12, 2010, the entire …

Chile Pepper Institute Now Has SuperHot Sauce

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Holy Jolokia!  That’s the name of the hot sauce the Chile Pepper Institute is releasing as a fund-raiser.  The Institute has partnered with CaJohn’s Fiery Foods in Columbus, Ohio to produce the sauce, which is made with the world’s hottest pepper, the ‘Bhut Jolokia’, or "ghost pepper."   This partnership marks the first time CPI has partnered with a private …