Custards I lost my sense of taste due to Covid, but it sure tastes good hot sauce.
It’s funny. I decided to do this months ago and had to wait for enough of the chiles to ripen and then have been waiting on it to ferment for 2 weeks.
Then today comes when it is finally time to pull it all together and I have no sense of taste or smell. It’s so bizarre. I could inhale the fumes as I processed it with the vinegar and the brine but I couldn’t smell a thing. Should have about knocked me over. But I knew it was potent because my eyes started watering.
After I bottled it I sampled some from the bottle I am keeping for myself. I can sorta taste the vinegar and then there’s a little heat. But nothing major. Then a little later I got all the secondary effects of eating something really hot: a sweaty flush and an endorphin rush.