re: Fav. Hot Sauce?

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I've done it this way as well. Pro tip: open the windows in your kitchen. Better yet, do this outside.

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True about the open window. Not so much for me as I've not had an issue doing this in my kitchen with closed doors and windows, but my wife can't handle it and passes through the kitchen holding her breath if heading out to the back porch.

About 2 years ago I decided to dehydrate some ghost peppers and cut about 100 of them in half, placing them on the grates of my warm air dehydrator.

I cranked it on and went in another room for a couple hours and my stepdaughter woke up and went into the kitchen to grab a bite to eat. She didn't stay long, came in the den and with tears in her eyes asked what was going on in the kitchen. I had to move the machine to my back porch and air out the kitchen.

Another Pro Tip:

If you use a pot that is not stainless steel, but coated to boil the hot sauce in, make sure to wash it then fill it with water and bring that water to a boil, dump it and repeat a couple times more.

One time I used a Calaphon pot with the black coating and only washed it when done. The next time I used it was to cook some rice and it took on some of the residual heat left in the pot from boiling the sauce.