The Chilli Den Hot Sauce Book: 75 Handmade Hot Sauces

By Denis Thompson

Seventy-five hot sauces, from barely warm to genuinely frightening.

From a peach sauce hardly hotter than a chutney to blood orange against a Carolina Reaper - a complete year of sauce-making for the home kitchen.

Six chapters, each climbing gently from mild to hot, so you can start at the top and work down as your tolerance builds:

Fruit & Orchard - peaches, blackberries, quince, sloes, pomegranate
Veg & Garden - roasted tomato, beetroot, sweetcorn, smoked aubergine
World Tour - mojo verde, harissa, mole, zhoug, berbere, ajika, nam prik, sambal
Classics Reimagined - sriracha, buffalo, sweet chilli and a Tabasco-style aged sauce, rebuilt from scratch
Boozy & Bold - bourbon, coffee, tequila, whisky and dark rum
Honeys, Syrups & Oils - hot honey, chilli maple and two crunchy chilli oils

Every recipe uses ordinary kitchen equipment and domestic quantities. No dehydrator, no pressure canner, no specialist suppliers.

What most hot sauce books leave out
The full sterilising and hot-fill method - so your sauces keep three to six months in a cupboard, not a fortnight in the fridge
Acidity explained properly - the pH 3.4 target that makes a sauce shelf-stable, and the honest exceptions
A heat rating out of ten on every recipe - describing the finished sauce, not the raw chilli
Where to buy everything - bottles, caps, heat shrink capsules and the right pH strips

Photography on every page, a hand-drawn badge for every single sauce, and a card layout built to be cooked from rather than admired.

Whether you grow your own chillies or simply buy too many, this is the book that turns them into something worth giving away.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HHZBST8W
• ISBN13: 9798172258619
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 10.0"