Don't Refrigerate Hot Sauce
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ส.ค. 2023
- Take it from pepper breeder and hot sauce expert Ed Currie: a properly made hot sauce doesn't require refrigeration.
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I refrigerate them simply because I prefer a hot sauce cold.
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It do be better cold tho
I do like a cold hot sauce
Cold sauce
@@lightrobotCoromontemprate sauce
That reminds me of a person I used to live with who got bread crumbs in the margarine. It would go back so quickly, and I always wondered how they got sooo much in there. I figured out at that moment that not everyone is as sanitary or worried about cross contamination.
I just think it's gross to do that, wipe your knife before you go back for more
Similarly I lived with someone who used the same knife for both peanut butter and jelly, so they would both eventually be filled with one another. And when I pointed it out how gross it was they looked at me like I was the weird one lol
@@didybopintityspb&j get mixed anyway
@@societyisboring Yes but some people use them separately, like you never make a peanut sauce or use jam by itself?
Your a psycho for using margarine over butter
Restaurants leave them on the table, or on a shelf, not refrigerated. And then the health inspector checks them, and I have never seen (20+ years working in restaunts) a place get a bad mark for non-refrigerated hot sauce. Never
Because restaurants use them quickly so ok to keep out
Use your brain next time
@@Disneyduck334bro that insult was not necessary
@@Disneyduck334 It's also ok because they are not refrigerated in other countries, and people carry them around. Don't you remember Hillary Clinton carries hot sauce in her purse? LMFAO 😅🤣😂
Yeah but they refill them so often without cleaning
@@gensai93 No, we have to clean them, and we don't refill. They come in the bottle they are served in. So...that's completely untrue. That is actually illegal to refill ketchup, hot sauce, any of that. It USED to be allowed, but not for several years, due to bacteria being transferred, causing contamination to the refilled bottle AND the larger one used to refill.
Health inspector would fail any place that even has a method to refill, and not have brand new bottles for replacement of empty or nearly empty bottles
He would know. That’s Ed Currie creator of the Carolina reaper.
Currie sauce too?
@@fukpoeslaw3613Is this a joke?
@@fukpoeslaw3613unfortunately not.
And now the Worlds new hottest pepper...Pepper X!
True
I wish Ed Currie knew how much my dad loves Carolina Reapers. He grows them and makes bottles of homemade hot sauce every year.
this is fantastic that you took a few moments to clarify how to store your hot sauce, I pretty much don't put my hot sauce in the refrigerator... I'm glad you explain why it's not necessary I guess we tend to concentrate on the ingredients, but you've cleared up what causes the problem.
Yes. People in Mexico have hot sauce on the table all the time. None of them have died of hot sauce poisoning (that I know of).
I refrigerate mine so it doesn't oxidize as quickly. Gotta keep that vibrant color.
Close the bottle...
Unless your letting it sit completely open for days on end, this shouldn't be happening
@@tiaraguy7705Wrong, once oxygen hits it, it will start to turn brown unless you keep it refrigerated. It tastes the same though.
@rexluger1940 ive never had hot sauce discolor, do you leave the bottle open??
@@bababoey. nope. I travel with it though, maybe the heat.
Not only does it make it thicker, it keeps the flavor longer and doesn't deteriorate in the sun.
It depends on the hot sauce. Heavily vinegared sauce I don’t worry about. But some of the more modern sauces I feel are safer in the fridge.
if someone is jamming my hot sauce bottle into their food, they'd lose their "sauce priveledge" lol
While refrigeration is not necessary for safety reasons, I still refrigerate because oxidation will diminish the overall flavor at a faster rate at room temperature. Also, somewhat ironically, I prefer to enjoy my hot sauce while it is at a cold temperature.
I agree! I keep mine in the kitchen pantry or cabinets.
I refrigerate it because it tastes better cold. Spicy sauce that is cold being placed on hot food is incredible to me.
I concur. BTW, how's Tapatio fit into this vid?
Yes, the difference in temps makes it all the more enjoyable of a experience. Food needs contrast
Not only that but another reason is for marketing. We open fridges many times more than pantry doors and if you put your sauce on the fridge door which many do you end up seeing it on average way more than in a pantry
In a fridge you’ll see it more than on a kitchen table? Idk about that 🤷♂️
@@TonyisToking I didn't say kitchen table bro I said in a closed pantry...
I didn’t realize how much I needed to hear this 😂
My ice box is full of hot sauce
I’ve always noticed hot sauces on a shelf get mellow and lose their heat over time. I’d rather refrigerate to maintain the qualities when it was jarred.
Thank you! Makes complete sense.
I've got like 10 different hot sauces I'll keep then in the door of the fridge not in a pile on the table that I don't eat at anyway
What’s up with the yellow?
You talking about the teeth ?
I only refrigerate Sriracha because it separates when i leave it out 😂
Same! That is the only hot sauce that lives in the fridge
Sriracha is so overrated. Kinda odd synthetic taste and very mild hotness
@@irgendeinname9256 you don't like non-spicy plastic-tasting stuff?
It's never occurred to me, but I've never once seen a restaurant refrigerate hot sauce. It's ALWAYS sitting on the table, or they bring it out room temp...
Trust ED CURRIE he is a legend in my book love all his sauces
Love you Ed ... see you soon
Lower temperature preserves the flavours
I refrigerate some because the hot sauce shelf in my kitchen is to capacity.
99% sure mans not a fan of the tooth brush either.
I prefer cold hot sauce
Also when ppl try the sauce with the spoon or something twice, meaning that after they had spoon in mouth they again dipping it in sauce to try it again and your saliva ending up there that will start a fermentation process
Excellent video! Same for ketchup and mustard. Used to leave them out forever until people became slobs. Tabasco and steak sauces the same thing.
Also the cold of hot sauce with the warm of whatever food you’re using… delicious
With sriracha i find it makes it taste much better for much much longer. Idk why, its just so much better when you keep a bottle in the fridge
But that's hardly a "hot" sauce.
Its because we check the fridge more than the pantry. We're more likely to use more so we'll buy more.
Most people who keep sauce at room temp keep it on their kitchen table, not the pantry. Pantries are for sealed product.
I used to not refrigerate my ketchup or hot sauce because restaurants didn’t.. but then it would discolor and that would bug me more. Anyway just thought I’d throw that out there. I noticed no difference but I just prefer to keep the color
Ty
As long as it’s vinegar based, if not, it will mold and go bad
I know of several that will change color and flavor if not refrigerated.
I just think the contrast of cold sauce on hot food and a spicy flavor is nice
I love a little food with my hot sauces
Fr, in our household we never put hotsauce in the fridge because we used a brand that you can squeeze and the sauce comes out kinda like heinze but better, never had an issue
How often to test pH once bottles are stored outside the fridge?
I just prefer my hot sauce chilled ….that’s why I have it in the refrigerator
Need enough vinegar or similar to lower the pH. But, yeah.
What if the hot sauce has sugar in it and shows that there are calories in the nutritional list where most don't have calories? Still safe to leave it out?
Thank you, I have a mango and habenero sauce that my parents keep putting in the fridge and I have to keep taking it out
Weird question. I made homemade hot sauce bottled and sealed it, but I was unsure of the finished ph level because my reader wasn’t calibrated properly. So while waiting for the buffer packets to come in to that I can test the ph properly I put the UNOPENED bottles in the fridge. I tested the ph levels of the bottles that I had already dug into and they were reading at shelf stable levels. Can I now take the UNOPENED bottles that are in the fridge and put them in my pantry to store or do I now have to keep them in the fridge.
Very true 👍
I always tell people that!! And my hot sauces always end up in the fridge!!!!😂
Make sense now 👍
But is there a benefit to keeping your hot sauces at room temp?
Hot sauce ain't getting cold
That's not the correct contraposition. Just because we say "there's no need to do X", it doesn't mean "there's a benefit to doing not-X". Can't it just be neutral? All it will affect is the feeling of it on your food, whether you'll have cold sauce making your hot food colder, or room temperature sauce making your food less so.
Smacking the tip of the bottle into your food is crazy like you're asking to get dried crusty bits of rim hot sauce in your food
Dude your teeth are jacked
I like cold sauce on hot food
I would like to know what is the disadvantage of putting it in the fridge? Like, does it matter?
Cold hot sauce
It will make cooked foods thermally colder quicker, especially in the designated area.
Guy has a lot of hot sauce anger
And ...if it seperates dont eat it but it wont if its well made ❤
unless the hot sauce has oil, butter, or cream in it, in which case it will go rancid if you leave it out...
What's the ginger one?
He didn’t mention that he drinks a whole bottle every morning to wake up (instead of Coffee 😂🎉)
Dudes dead serious about not refrigerating hot sauce
This dude is Ed Currie, creator of the Carolina Reaper peppers. He knows what he's talking about.
@@ajiththomas2465If you leave it in cupboard and the color and flavors fade, you will have to buy more. He is a businessman.
@@rexluger1940 he's probably consumed as much as he's sold, and his company is transparent. What he does is what he says he does.
Refrigeration prolongs the flavor. Not necessary, but if you’re not going to use it often, it helps to maintain potency.
lol not relevant unless you keep your bottle open for several years
I've got an insane toddler running wild in my house, no way am I leaving a glass bottle filled with pain on the table. It's getting locked up in the fridge.
You don't have cupboards?
If it's a runny sauce like crystal or cholula I'll keep it in the fridge, if it has a solid enough consistency I'll leave it in the cupboard.
How about Sriracha?
I mean the average hot sauce is aged for 3 yrs before even being bottled.. So I would assume it has a long lasting shelf life without being chilled.
Fermented hot sauce with zero vinegar is a completely different thing.
the problem is the 1st word you said.
If.
i agree 100% that no lie
People whove never worked in restaurants have no idea that the ketchup i just served them has been sitting at room temperature for months. Same with the siracha. Same with the cholula, tobasco, etc etc.
Tabasco definitely is fine at room temperature since it's literally just vinegar, salt and chilli. It is also stored in oak barrels for up to 3 years before being filled in the bottles. Not so sure about the ketchup though
I have never put a hot sauce in the fridge.
I have been telling people this for decades and they always look at me like im crazy.
I really thought for a second this was a spoof and you guys got Adam Sandler to play a role 😅
Lol!! That’s why I clicked on the video
I never refrigerant my tabasco
I have a bottle of cholula on my table that looks a little milky lol.
What should the pH be?
Did I just get scolded?
Congratulations....
I refrigerate them because it's colder outside the refrigerator.
I like Ed Currie just as much as the next Hit Sauce lover. But let's discuss the elephant in the room, why don't his head size fits his body!!! IJS 😂
If you’re eating hot sauce beyond the expiration date, it sucks.
What about Franks? That's the best hot sauce.
Thought it was vinegar, not specifically the ph
Vinegar is the thing determining and lowering the pH.
Ok, this short shouldn't be called "Don't Refrigerate hot sauce" because we know people are gonna watch this and still do the same thing
I don't refrigerate hot sauces. They don't last that long before I eat them.
And… what's the pH supposed to be then?
It's the potential of Hydrogen, and you'd want it about 4 or below.
What a golden teeth 😅
So I’m gunna have to get out my lab kit and test pH everytime I open a new bottle?
Doesn't everybody do this?
Obviously
His teeth be like:
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Why are his top 2 front teeth orange??
Using the FDA as an example is probably not the best idea considering their track record
Wait so he's saying we don't have to refrigerate it. But the title is telling us *not to* refrigerate it. Should I actually not refrigerate hot sauce?
If you want the sauce to get your hot food cold in a little patch, refrigerate it. If you want food thermally normal as well as spicy, don't refrigerate it.
I never felt inclined to refrigerate my hot sauces, they also don't last longer than a week usually 💀
Maybe this is why I have ibs
Are they spicy sauces or not? A bottle of Psycho Juice Extreme Ghost Pepper in a week will do a lot to your metabolism. A bottle of Frank's Red Hot will not.
You can also go without brusing your teeth but you will lokk like this guy. Shut up let me put my hot sauce in the fridge
What if in third world country where temperature is humid?
You aren't wrong, but refrigeration is a best practice to combat food borne illness.
Hot ones is a joke
Hos teeth are made of capsaicin
I’ve seen brown sriracha at peoples houses…it’s okay past two months people
Ok Adam Sandler
I have never ever refrigerated a hot sauce. Nor shall I ever.