> Having received exactly zero information... Jim, I understand your frustration as happens all the time to me. Not a hot sauce expert here, but I do use peaches in my canned salsas with great (to me) results. So how do you make your hot sauces? Are you canning, making for eating immdiately, fermenting, freezing or what? jt ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Graham To: ChileHeads Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:29 PM Subject: [CH] another batch of hot sauce+questions ... one last attempt For full details, read my original request for ideas. Basically, though, the idea is this: I'm doing another batch of hot sauce, but don't want to do the same thing twice...want to change it up a bit (variety and all that). One of the changes is to replace the carrots (1#) with something else. I mentioned the possibility of peach (hazmat to me until it's cooked, but that's ok---I've got protection and, if that fails, an Epi-Pen) and/or mango. I also mentioned that I seem to recall that there's something special about mango (as opposed to just peel and dump into the blender), but don't remember what it was.... Having received exactly zero information, I went to the store today and bought one peach, one mango, and one pineapple. Some or all of this will make it into the sauce. If I don't use the pineapple, I won't have any problem putting it away (if you've never had FRESH pineapple, you've never had pineapple). :-) The peach and mango are either hot sauce ingredients or trash. Does anyone have any ideas as to which of these I should use (whether individually or a combination), and perhaps relative amounts (e.g., percentages of the total weight if in ounces or mass if in grams)? I'm making hot sauce either tomorrow (Saturday) or Sunday. If anyone has any suggestions between now and then, they would be highly appreciated. Thanks, --jim -- 73 DE N5IAL (/4) MiSTie #49997 < Running FreeBSD 7.0 > spooky130@cox.net ICBM/Hurricane: 30.39735N 86.60439W Do not look into waveguide with remaining eye! No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.10/1585 - Release Date: 8/1/2008 6:39 AM