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You think you know your Hot Sauces? Stay Tuned...
What's up Everyone! Welcome back to TastySauces.com.
I'm your host Billy D. Today, we are talking about hot sauces
and were doing a basic, brief overview of it. Basically
what makes hot sauce what it is, is the chili pepper. That's what gives it its intense
heat
and that surprise factor when you take a bite into it.
Chili Peppers have been really popular. They have been around thousands of years
They were traditionally real popular in South America when the
Europeans came over and colonized. They discovered this great food and
brought it back with them and from there it spread across the world.
If you look at a lot of different cuisines and dishes across the world, you'll see
chili peppers used
in a lot of those to give you that nice heat factor.
Typically when you talk about Chili Peppers depending on what type of pepper you
go with
that is going to determine the type of heat you are going to produce and they have actually produced
a Scoville Index scale that they kind of rate each pepper on
to tell you what kind of spiciness you are getting.
At the beginning of your scale, you got your Bell Peppers. They really don't give off much
heat at all.
Then, you travel up a little bit further and you got your Jalapeno Peppers.
Everyone is probably real familiar with these. Then, you go up a little bit further, it gets a little bit
spicier
you got your Habaneros and then if you go all the way to the end of the scale,
you even got your dreaded Ghost Pepper. So that is basically how they determine the heat of
the hot sauces and the peppers.
Now,
talking about hot sauces, there is a ton of different varieties out there.
But basically I'm going to focus on three different types.
You got your Louisiana style Hot Sauces. Everyone has probably heard of Tabasco.
With these hot sauces, they are more of a vinegar
based hot sauce. Real thin in nature but they really focus on
intense heat for the person. Then, if you go down to Mexico, you got your Mexican style Hot Sauce.
You got your
Cholula. You got your Tapatio.
These aren't quite as vinegary and they really focus more on flavor than intense heat.
Then if you travel on over to Asia, you got your Sriracha type sauces.
Typically with Asian sauces you don't have nearly as much vinegar.
They use more of a chili oil and they kind of give you that sweet heat factor.
So I want to invite you guys. We are going to be taste testing
all different types of sauces in August. We are doing about 4 or 5 episodes every single
week so
thank you guys. Make sure and check back and talk to you guys later.
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that is the ingredient that gives it that little heat factor and
that whole you know, surprise thing so...
it even goes all the way up to the deadly Ghost Pepper so...