Hot Sauce!: Techniques For Making Signature Hot...

Hot Sauce! Techniques for Making Signature Hot Sauces With 32 Recipes To Get You Startedby Jennifer Trainer Thompson Storey Publishing, 192 pp., $14.95 (paper)The mischievous element of heat, and its darling counterpart, flavor, are the royal siblings of the hot sauce realm, but proper technique is their beloved governess. Jennifer Trainer Thompson imparts her expert food knowledge in Hot Sauce! and provides user-friendly core strategies spanning global cuisine, including recipes for hot sauces, drinks, dips, small foods, stews, barbecue, and more. The fascinating, albeit brief, history lesson of the world's favorite condiment and its individual components inspire the journey for discovering a signature flavor. Thompson includes the story of the McIlhenny Company's famous Tabasco sauce plus descriptions of regional sauces, chiles, and other ingredients (vinegars, fruits, herbs, spices). Useful for its beer pairing guide and heat index, this book will also appeal to fans and friends of The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival with its "Getting Into the Hot Sauce Business" section. And, lucky for locals, the majority of Thompson's recipes feature ingredients found at local farmers' markets year-round.

Hot Sauce!: Techniques for Making Signature Hot...

Cons: Some people find that this book does not have the depth of information they want on the scientific processes of fermentation or specific instructions for making shelf-stable sauces.

Making hot sauce is pretty much a Choose Your Own Adventure, but specifically one written for third graders because it's so easy. It's so easy. It's so damn easy why are you not doing it right now? I don't even think "making hot sauce" should even be a thing, it's about as simple as breathing or incorrectly cracking an egg. 041b061a72