Take it from pepper breeder and hot sauce expert Ed Currie: a properly made hot sauce doesn’t require refrigeration.
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What if you use tomato, onion, garlic, etc?
So what if I just wanna put the sauce in the fridge because I don't want my kitchen looking like the set of Hot Ones?
well…this gives me a "Get Out Of Jail' with the wife. She always complained how much space I took in the fridge, now I can put them all over the house and give her the whole fridge. NOW the question is IF the sauce was stored in the fridge for months, now will it go bad because it is always warm?
When Ed Currie talks about Hot Sauce, I Stand Up and Pay Attention!!!
Do you think he brushes his teeth with the hot sauce?
Mr Ed is 1000% correct!! I get my PH in the range of 2.7 to 3.4 and I have NEVER, EVER, NEVER had an issue with spoilage.
This guy brushes his teeth with hot sauce!
And I'm still going to refrigerate after opening. LMFAO
I had a bottle go bad. Didn’t touch food or anything (Buc-ee’s taco reaper). Fermented in the bottle lol
K but is there a downside to refrigerating it?
Im pretty sure if you contaminated the bottle by doing that, refrigeration isn't really going to help much anyway.
Bottom of the line is: don't refrigerate hot sauce unless you want cold sauce on your food for some reason.
I prefer most cold.
FDA and Science doesn't mean the same thing anymore
Amazingly bad advice
Tastes like new if I keep it in the fridge for a a long time, tastes weird after a while if I leave it out. and the color changes sometimes
Someone buy this legend a toothbrush.
Why is this guys top teeth so yellow?
Some contain Potassium Sorbate and/or Sodium Benzoate as preservatives anyway.
that's easy for him to say – he opens a bottle for breakfast and it's empty by the afternoon 😂
I refridgerate my hot sauce not because im worried it will spoil, I know the high vinegar content in most sauces will allow it to withstand bacterial deterioration for a very long time indeed. I simply prefer the taste and texture of a colder sauce, same thing applies to salsa
fda isn't there to help you its there to promote and protect american goods. never forget the fda said "oxycontin isn't addictive". so excuse me if I think the fda is a massive joke.
Most sauces don’t need refrigerated. Of the few exceptions mayo and tarter are the primary ones.
You refrigerate your hot sauce because it says to on the bottle. I refrigerate my hot sauce because I don’t have space on my counters. We are not the same.
Brush your teeth motherfcker
You need to brush your teeth bro
I'm still gonna
Ive never refrigerated hot sauce. It delays the spice reaction. Youll eat a spoonful of the hot stuff and by the time you taste it, itll be too late.
No offense but a guy who can’t brush his teeth is not going to tell me about food hygiene and storage
Those teeth…
Even with a very low pH and high salinity, sauces that have sugar in them will undergo ethanol fermentation after opening. Refrigeration slows that process, hopefully to the point where you won't get an eyeful of capsaicin when you open the bottle and it blows up.
But I like it cold
Well if it keeps it safer I’m gonna start keeping mine in the fridge 😂
Trust this guy as far as i can throw em
Thanks didn’t know. Im in the UK and that bright yellow one looks delicious ❤
Okay
Pepper Ed you flamethrower eating son of a gun.
Thank you for this! 👊🏻🌶👊🏻
Like most foods, hot sauce will last longer in the fridge. I'm not a restaurant, nor do I have just one or two small bottles of hot sauce I use daily. It takes me months to finish a bottle of hot sauce. I have a lot of them, and some I keep for two years before I finish them or they're expired and no longer taste fresh. I know that a year later, they lose potency and fresh taste. So refrigeration keeps them as fresh as long as possible. It's the same reason I refrigerate soy sauce, because it often takes me a year to finish the large bottles I buy. There is no downside to storing sauces chilled. But knowing that they don't need refrigeration, on occasion I'll temporarily take them out of the refrigerator if I need to make space for other food.
What kind of dum dum puts the bottle IN THE FOOD im not surpriesed by this level of nonsense though.
Amen! I also don't refrigerate my mayonnaise & some of my bbq sauces.
I guess Louisiana isn’t made properly, I never put my hot sauce in the fridge but it will turn a weird color after a while lol