Hot Sauce!

How Do You Like Your Hot?

Add a shot of hot sauce to your favorite dishes and spark a fire to thrill your taste buds. Make the hot sauce yourself and you can boost the heat, try out different vinegars, play up a favorite spiece, or adjust other ingredients to make a fiery condiment that's truly your own. Jennifer Trainer Thompson offers everything you need to know about making hot sauces, and then gets you started with 32 recipes that span every style, from a three-ingredient Louisiana hot sauce to a Caribbean concoction redolent of tropical fruits and ginger.

This title contains everything hot-sauce fans need to know to make their own signature hot sauces and then cook with them. What makes a hot sauce hot? What are the basic ingredients? Chile peppers - how to find, purchase, and work with the best chillies for the flavour you want. Hot sauce is good for you and is a tasty way to add flavour to reduced-salt foods. Capsaicin, the chemical that makes chilli peppers hot, is a potent anti-inflammatory agent; it may help to relieve migraines, sinusitis, and arthritis and to encourage cancer-cell death.