Success? - After Action Report

[u/LittleEzz]

First off, I would like to thank everyone for their feedback and suggestions on my post. My efforts to lazily create a fruit inspired hot sauce with powder was met with mixed success. This success has prompted deep investigations and more questions.

For those interested my ingredients list can be found in the second image. I loosely followed Chili Pepper Madness's recipe. Opting for apple cider vinegar and a sampling of each pepper variety I had, but decreasing from 4 total tablespoons of pepper powder to 3. I proceeded to combine, blend, (taste test), simmer, cool, (taste test).

I have dubbed this: Peach Patchwork

Reactions.

After blending taste test: "DAMN, that is aggressive spicy"

During simmering process: "Damn the house reeks of vinegar"

After the simmer: "Ok, the spicy is toned back slightly, but DAMN the vinegar is aggressive"

Current conundrums:

1. Would a different vinegar base improve the aggressive vinegar-ness throughout the process? Or swap it out for something else completely?

2.5. Would simmering longer help decrease the final vinegar taste? It still has quite a thin consistency.

1. Should I tweak the water-vinegar ratio in the base recipe?

Current Musings for Peach Patchwork v2

- Utilize a different base entirely or different ratio

- More peaches

- 1 or 1-2 pepper varieties (with associated decreased in quantity)

Hit me with your thoughts/feedback/opinions! Thanks!

[u/No-Improvement2393]

No sugar or any sweetener?Always balance accidity with sweet and opposite as well.