ROTTEN PEPPERS Fermented Hot Sauce

Description

Traditionally, all hot chili sauces were prepared through fermentation – and many of the world’s most renowned and well-loved sauces are still prepared through this time-honored technique of combining hot chilies with salt and allowing them to sit in vats and ferment.  Both Tabasco sauce and sriracha are traditionally prepared through lactic acid fermentation before they undergo further processing.

Fermentation is a magical and transformative culinary technique that not only helps to preserve foods that might otherwise spoil, but it also gives foods a complex and rich depth of flavor.  It’s the beneficial bacteria that proliferate during the lengthy fermentation process that gives this hot sauce its unique and explosive flavor.