Your Introduction to
Hot Sauces!
We'll lead you down the fiery
path to just the hot sauces you are looking for. From a minimal heat pepper
sauce to a slap you in the face pepper extract, and everything in
between. But first, a little history.
Although a few hot sauce companies can be traced back to the early
1800's, the grandfather of today's pepper sauce industry, Edmund McIlhenny, began selling
Tabasco* brand pepper sauce in 1868. The McIlhenny family has been
producing
Tabasco* sauce made from their own peppers grown on Avery
Island in Louisiana ever since.
Their basic recipe consisting of fully-aged red pepper, high grain all-natural vinegar, and a small amount of salt mined right on Avery Island, has never changed. Today their family of products includes dozens of items, including the new favorite Chipotle Pepper Sauce.
Hot Sauces in the
New Millenium!
Today's multitude of pepper sauces have a basic set of ingredients:
chile pepper, garlic, and onion. After that point, however; the list of
ingredients varies as widely as the tongues of
Chileheads
can bare.
Any combination of chile peppers can be found in the small bottles
of fire! From cayenne to jalapeņo, scotch bonnet, and the hottest of
peppers, the habanero; All can be found in any number of hot sauces.
The hottest of hot sauces available on the market today, are made from
pepper extract. The extract is made from only the hottest parts of the
pepper, yielding a scoville rating many times that of a plain pepper.
Sauces made from pepper extract are generally not eaten directly from the bottle, but are used as a food additive, as they are way too hot for even the most extreme
Chileheads.
In the early 1990's, the gourmet sauce industry began to boom. With
the introduction of extreme sauces such as Dave's Gourmet Insanity Sauce and Blair's Death Sauce, the war was on to see who could make
the world's hottest pepper sauce. Today, the number of manufacturers is in the thousands. Of course, many are not so extreme, but
offer a huge variety of tastes. If you don't see one that sounds good
to you, look harder, there is a hot sauce for everyone.
Chile Pepper Sauces home
*Tabasco is a registered trademark of McIlhenny Company.
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