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| Ice age heat wave, cant complain.  |
I have sauce I make for chicken wings that consists of honey, vinegar, peppers, and citrus. At the moment, I have a ton of peppers and I'd like to make a sauce to keep on hand. Do those ingredients spoil? I will have blanched the shit out of peppers before they hit the Vitamix, for what it's worth. Thanks, NRA Life Member Steak: Rare. Coffee: Black. Bourbon: Neat. | ||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
If you ask me, something like that doesn't even require refrigeration. Vinegar and ciric acid. ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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Info Guru |
My mom made a hot sauce to put on collard greens. Put some peppers in a bottle and fill it up with vinegar and it was kept in the cabinet. Lasted years and the peppers were only switched out maybe once a year when fresh peppers grew in the garden! “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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| Old, Slow, but Lucky!  |
I agree no refrigeration is necessary. Stop to think about it: Every table in all restaurants serving Mexican food has one or more hot sauce bottles sitting on the table... for weeks or months, depending on the popularity of that particular sauce... No spoilage! _______________________ Living the Dream... One Day at a Time. | |||
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chickenshit |
Typically anything with a pH of 4 or less is pretty safe to leave out. (Not refrigerate) Distilled white vinegar has a pH around 2.5 so depending on the amount of vinegar in your sauce I'd say you are pretty safe. ____________________________ Yes, Para does appreciate humor. | |||
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| Ice age heat wave, cant complain. |
I'm cutting habanero so vinegar is a big ingredient. Whats the worst that can happen?  NRA Life Member Steak: Rare. Coffee: Black. Bourbon: Neat. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
The vinegar may be enough to preserve it without any worries. This may seem counterintuitive, but sugar is also a preservative. It takes lots of sugar, but this is why honey or syrup doesn't go bad. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Fire begets Fire |
Salt is in most hot sauces; salt like sugar is hydroscopic and will lyse/disrupt bacterial membranes (their "skin") causing them to "die". This is why many preservation techniques use sugar or salt. Also +1 on the Ph thing (vinegar). "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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Delusions of Adequacy |
Heck, i wouldn't even bother with the fridge. As noted, vinegar basically pickles it, citric acid has preservative effects, and honey has been found in Egyptian tombs in perfect condition. I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
Pro tip: when it turns black and hair grows out of it, throw it out. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Who wants cold hot sauce? Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Age Quod Agis |
Until it bubbles or grows a beard. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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semi-reformed sailor |
I once ate an MRE that had a "darker than normal" tiny bottle of Texas Pete Sauce.... It didn't kill me, but I was backed up for about a week..... "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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A Grateful American |
Acid is good. You wanna die? Put roasted red peppers and habaneros in virgin olive oil and set it in the window sill for a few months, then put a bunch on your smoked turkey sammich with mayonnaise and Havarti, stuff it in a brown bag, then set it in the passenger set of your truck in the middle of July in the Florida panhandle, snarf it down like an Ethiopian on roadkill 4 hours later. Turtles... All The Way Down... "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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| No double standards |
Not part of your question, but don't take it on the airline. My wife (Peruvian ancestry) was on vacation, had a bottle of her sisters custom hot sauce in her luggage. The TSA confiscated it.  "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
If it was in checked luggage, they shouldn't have confiscated it. I don't know what grounds they have for doing so. In any case, my answer to the OP is years and years. And I owuld suggest putting it in the refrigerator and here is why: I bought a two pack of tapatio hot sauce big size from Costco. You know that's big. almost 2 liter bottles big. One's in the refrigerator adn the other in a pantry. It's been over a year maybe closer to two years, the first one's not even half-empty. the second one in the pantry turned blackish. I threw that one out. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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