Okay. It's time to put all those peppers you froze this summer to use and whip up some hot sauce.
Is making your own hot sauce difficult? Eye-burning, nose-running, room-clearing hot, yes. Difficult? Nope.
You see, your typical hot sauce has three little ingredients: peppers, vinegar and salt. That's it, and that makes it a breeze to make at home.
These homemade sauces are more kin to the old favorite Louisiana Hot Sauce than its cousin Tabasco. That's because Tabasco ferments their peppers with salt for THREE YEARS in oak barrels before turning them into sauce, which is way too long to wait for most of us. You can enjoy your homemade sauce immediately, or let it age for a month in the fridge first to allow the flavor to improve a bit. (Come on, you can wait a month.)

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