Mikey V’s Texas Ex’s

Description

Hey Chili heads! You asked for it, now you got it! Mikey V’s Texas Ex’s is a delicious, vinegar based-shelf stable salsa, that has 7 different peppers, along with roasted tomatoes, fresh onions, and garlic along with some spices. Jalapenos, Habaneros, Red Fresno, Scotch Bonnets, Yellow Moruga Scorpions, Bhut Jolakia-Ghost Peppers, Brown Moruga Trinidad Scorpion Peppers, are the peppers responsible for this capsaicin frenzy. It’s packed with heat, but there is still plenty of flavor! The salsa that bites back! Texas Ex’s placed second in the Austin Hot Sauce Festival 2014-Judge’s Category.

Everyone’s heard of hot sauce. Nearly every nation has its own cultural rendition of a spicy condiment to enhance the flavor of its food. While hot sauce has been popular in the U.S. for decades, it’s become increasingly popular in recent years. Hot sauce is more than just a common part of street food. There is a science behind how spicy each sauce is, as well as a history of hot sauce’s origins. Most hot sauce is a combination of chili peppers, vinegar, and salt. Many hot sauces are fermented to add a funky flavor element. They can be liquid or paste, green, red, or even brown. While there are other spicy condiments that get their heat from ingredients that aren’t chilies (Mustard sauce, Wasabi, Horseradish), we’ll just focus on chili-based sauces.

History:

Most sources agree that hot sauce is an ancient invention that goes back as far as Mayan times. The first hot sauces were likely just a mixture of peppers and water. It didn’t take long for people to begin breeding pepper plants to develop the most desirable traits in their peppers. Then, as with most foods, colonization led hot sauce to be evolved even further by introducing ingredients from other parts of the world, such as vinegar and other spices. It didn’t take long for spicy flavors to reach all corners of the globe after that.

In the 19th century, the Tabasco company brought hot sauce into the commercial scene by bottling and selling their products, mainly to hotels and restaurants. And today, there are countless varieties of hot sauce covering a broad spectrum of flavors, from sriracha to buffalo sauce.

While tasting spiciness can be a somewhat subjective thing, measuring the chemicals on the Scoville scale provides an objective means of communicating just how hot something is. Chili peppers may come in all different shapes, sizes, colors, flavors, and even spellings. The fact that spicy foods can be found in nearly every country on earth. Humans have enjoyed hot sauce since ancient times and, as with so many foods. Hot sauce can serve as an international language to bring different people together and find common ground. So you’re seeking to challenge yourself to taste the spiciest hot sauce on the planet. Or you are simply interested in exploring the nuanced flavors of artisanal sauces, there’s certainly a hot sauce out there for you to enjoy.

Ingredients:

tomatoes, distilled vinegar, purified water, onion, kosher salt, garlic, jalapenos, red Fresno, habanero, yellow Scotch bonnet, ghost pepper, Brown moruga Trinidad scorpion pepper, and yellow moruga scorpion

Pairings:

Eggs, pork, chicken, beef, soups, pizza, carnitas tacos, burritos, fish tacos etc.

Mikey V’s Texas Ex’s