The MISSTEP

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The MISSTEP from MISSTEP HOT SAUCE. This is a great example of a wonderful table sauce that has a unique twist.  This sauce has the table sauce flavor you love but with a hint of smoky paprika and Bourbon.  The flavor of the Bourbon adds that little extra that will make you fall in love with this sauce.   This sauce is that perfect sauce to keep right on your table because of the abundance of foods you can add this too.  Pizza, eggs, soups, pasta, tacos or anything that needs a little heat.  This sauce can live up to the challenge! 

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:

Apple cider vinegar, Jolokia pepper mash, smokey Paprika, Bourbon  and a nice punch of garlic. 

THE MISSTEP