Learn how to make tabasco hot sauce with this homemade tabasco sauce recipe, using garden grown tabasco peppers, vinegar and salt. This is a fermented version, with a simple 2 week ferment, though you can also make a version without fermentation. Disclaimer: Product links may include affiliate links.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Homemade Tabasco Sauce
0:34 About Fermentation
1:48 Tabasco Peppers
2:55 Fermentation Jar
3:31 Make the Brine & Pour
4:33 Headspace
5:24 Pickling Tops
6:10 Start Fermenting + Label
6:33 Non-Fermented Version
6:56 2 Weeks Later
7:36 PH Check
8:43 Strain + Vinegar
9:26 Salt + Blend
10:50 Second Strain
11:40 Adjustments
12:03 Bottling
13:07 Taste
13:31 Cooking Option
14:18 More Hot Sauce Recipes
THINGS YOU’LL NEED:
FOR THE FERMENTED VERSION
– 5 ounces tabasco peppers roughly chopped
– 1 tablespoons sea salt (.33 ounce – 9.5 grams)
– 2 cups unchlorinated water
– 1 cup white wine vinegar, or more as desired
FOR THE NON-FERMENTED VERSION
– 5 ounces tabasco peppers
– 1/4 teaspoon salt
– 1 cup white wine vinegar or more as desired
RELEVANT LINKS:
How to Ferment Peppers/Make Pepper Mash: https://www.chilipeppermadness.com/cooking-with-chili-peppers/how-to-make-fermented-pepper-mash/
Masontops Fermenting Lids: https://amzn.to/2KWtuNR (affiliate link)
Louisiana Style Hot Sauce Recipe: https://www.chilipeppermadness.com/chili-pepper-recipes/hot-sauces/homemade-louisiana-hot-sauce/
Tabasco Sauce Recipe: https://www.chilipeppermadness.com/recipes/tabasco-sauce/
Thermoworks PH Meter: https://alnk.to/6bSNPKf (affiliate link)
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-Mike
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38 Comments
I did this once with a Chipotle sauce. Man, don't put your face in the pepper smoke. MY EYES!!!
Thanks a lot.
I’m definitely growing more Tabasco plants next year. They are just such great producers with plenty of heat and their peculiar flavor that only they have. They did great even in the horrible heat in SW Louisiana we had this year.
I have never thought about pepper fermentation. Nice example. Thank you!
Looks pretty legit. Tabasco is my favorite hot sauce.
Great looking guy.
I watch your videos and I love them.
I would much appreciate it if you could bring the Scoville’a scale when talking about hottnes of the peppers and the final product Tabasco I know is about 3000 Scoville’a im looking for something a little bit hotter but no more than 10000 Scoville’a
We have a lot of peppers that aren’t fully ripe still green but it is going to freeze tonight! Can we still use this same method?
Vinegar releases some of the chemical potential of salt, which will then capture any calcium ions ("hardness") in your water as harmless calcium chloride, a salt often added to keep pickles firm… so if you have hard water, it can be helpful to add a splash of vinegar to the brine before fermentation.
Does vinegar kill the good bacteria from the fermentation process?
When ever I ferment I get so impatient lol but in all seriousness if you can I say let it go 1 to 2 weeks at least for the best flavor. I really have been becoming obsessed with fermenting so I been doing lots of hotsauce and other foods like saurkraut and pickles
Easy and straight to the point! What kind of ph meter you have there?
I frequently buy the hottest tabasco Scorpion sauce, but it's not as hot as I'd like to. I like to make an even hotter sauce than that! I like small amounts, but very spicy!
Thank you so much for sharing this video. I am looking forward to making my own tabasco sauce.
Great to see multiple cool peppers 🌶️ hot to super hot made in the cabinet than use it for multiple dishes 🙂
I have 6 plants with 7 million Tabasco peppers on then (exaggerating lol). I'd like to try your recipe. I'll be using a blender. Question 1) As it has frosted here, my plants died and I still have a lot of green ones to harvest. Would you use green tabascos to make your sauce? Question 2) Do you ever any seasoning….garlic, onion, etc?
Add oak wood chips yo to the first batch to infuse a barrel flavor
It's so inexpensive though and they might soon go out of business.
Hai i came frome Indonesia,and tobasco cost so much, if i make the same as you do,is it ok to as benzoit to it so it could stay much longer???
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Hi, where you get the glass dis
I dont get the wet brine for hot sauces. Just shred up your chili and mix with your desired amount of salt. Vac seal. Ferment. Easy. You could also just put it in a jar. Or a wooden barrell😅
Why make it when its way cheaper to just buy it .
i never realized mr clean was an actual person
I believe you are the pepper master sir thanks for all you teach us..
I like your presentation
Nice sir, what it taste will like sambal (indonesia sambal?)
Most outstanding!!!
Can we use apple cider vinegar too ?
Do you think dried rehydrated chilli peppers would work? They are not in season right now, but I have some that I dried.
Thx. Thailand. Chiangmai.
hello! can u write the recipe for us? we are from georgia and i want to try it. i want to read recipe how to make it
looks amazing! I wonder if we can use dried chillies.
Very inspiring. I will make my own hot sauce this weekend. There is no Tabasco pods here in but I am using the other varieties that quite common in Java. Thank you so much.
Thank you for showing your recipe and your making process. It was very informative. Greetings from Germany. Thumbs up 👍👍
I love Tabasco! 😋
Thanks a lot! My favorite sauce! I will do it!)
Fermented foods are healthy for us.
Going to make this one too 😂
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