RE: [CH] refrigeration

Michael Schapansky (michael1@bga.com)
Sat, 7 Feb 1998 12:54:57 -0600

Hey, you're a regular Albert Einsauce!


-----Original Message-----
From:	Jim Campbell [SMTP:mwph2hot@indy.net]
Sent:	Saturday, February 07, 1998 12:50 AM
To:	Christopher E. Eaves
Cc:	chile-heads-digest@globalgarden.com
Subject:	Re: [CH] refrigeration

Refrigeration shouldn't by itself cause a sauce to seperate*.  The greatest 
culprit causing seperation that I've found is to leave them alone too long.  
Making extra efforts now to make sure that doesn't happen ;-)  My entire 
sauce collection sits seperated and before showing it off, I shake each bottle 
to restore them.  One of the reasons a fitment (that little thingie we all pull 
off) is used is to help the sauce mix as it is shaken to get it to come out of the 
fitment.  This too helps combat seperation.

-Jim Campbell
Mild to Wild Pepper & Herb Co

*If I wanted to postulate an official sounding explanation whereby 
refriegeration might cause them to seperate, I'd talk about micro-fine air 
bubbles attaching to pieces of the solids insolution.  At room temperature, the 
air bubbles have expanded enough to maintain bouyancy (like a hot air 
ballon) but under colder emps, the larger pieces fall out of suspension.  
Science grant anyone?  :-)