I recently realized that I have never done a direct comparison, side-by-side, of the various peppers I grow. I also don’t really care for eating fresh raw peppers – I prefer to cook with them. But you can’t really get a good taste comparison when the peppers are mixed with other ingredients.

So I decided to make a basic hot sauce (recipe below). I used the exact same recipe, only varying the pepper. For this experiment I used Jalapeño, Cayenne, Tepin, Habanero, Ghost, Yellow Reaper, and Carolina Reaper.

Ingredients

• 10 oz. fresh peppers
• 1/2 Cup Rice Vinegar
• 1/4 Cup Water
• 1 tsp salt

Directions

• Blend all ingredients together in a blender
• Set out, covered, for 7 days. Mix daily.
• Blend again as finely as possible
• Strain out remaining solids

So how did it turn out?

I don’t know yet! I’m doing the final batches this weekend. Check back for results!