Hot sauce recipe live blog!

Step 1: Sautee chopped onion and garlic with some oil and salt in the instant pot until the onions are translucent

Cut off the stems of the peppers (1 pound) and cut in half

Add chopped peppers to the pot

Add 2 cups apple cider vinegar, 1/4 cup coconut sugar, 2 tsp xanthan gum, 2 tsp salt, 1 tsp citric acid

Add water until everything is submerged (about 2 cups) and give it all a good stir

Cook on high pressure for 30 minutes, let the pressure come down naturally or you'll fill your kitchen with capsaicin

It's cooked! Now grab an immersion blender and blend until smooth!

It's a sauce! Time to put it into little bottles

Tada! 12 bottles of hot sauce!

Don't forget to label them so you know which batch is which! I use these paper tags with elastic so that I don't have to continually clean off stickers from the bottles when I reuse them.

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@aaronpk you make it sound like filling your kitchen with capsaicin isn't a desirable outcome

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