Category Archives: How Sauce News & Stuff

Does Hot Sauce Go Bad?

One question I get asked alot is shelf life of hot sauces.  Chile peppers have been used throughout time to preserve food, and therefore, between the chile peppers and vinegar that is the "liquid" in today’s hot sauces should hold it’s freshness for a long time.
 
Many hot sauce collectors will not keep their sauces in […]

New Use For Chile Peppers

Costs squeeze New Mexico’s peppers
Chile breeders at New Mexico State University have developed a gem of a new chile variety that produces the reddest pigment commercially available. “NuMex Garnet,” a paprika chile for natural food coloring, was unveiled today at the 20th Annual 2002 Chile Conference in Las Cruces.
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