Our First Cook
After borrowing Tim’s brother’s brew kettle (yes… it’s a keg. If you get to know us, this will make a lot of sense to you!), we set about learning about online ordering of “large” amounts of ingredients and trying to sync up 3 busy schedules. We succeeded!
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The moment we became real hot sauce makers, and not necessarily popular with the other people renting space in the commercial kitchen, was when we opened the 5 gallon bucket of chocolate habanero mash…
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Excitement and awe quickly turned to ridiculous tears and laughter. Tim demonstrated the worst mistake we could make, luckily only in mime, no trips to the ER this time!
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After the breathing shenanigans subsided we got to work with our chopped ingredients and trusty blender!
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The scale of our ambitions became clear as we added… and added… and added ingredients to the kettle.
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Luckily the kitchen has a rideable sized immersion blender, otherwise we might have a very high death rate of table top blenders.
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Sebastian learned the hard way that keeping the sauce moving over the heat is a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG and hot process… Apparently that whole blood, sweat and tears thing is more about sweat in the hot sauce game… who knew?!?
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But… after a few hours, we had made our first batch of sauce!!! Then we learned that shrink wrapping involves more sweat…
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SUCCESS!
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It felt good to finally have product to show after years of testing, rewriting recipes, planning, and false starts. We hope you enjoy this sauce as much as we do!
Prost!