Tabasco sauce

Over the past 130 years of its existence, Tabasco sauce has firmly established itself in the leading positions in the list of the most popular pepper-based sauces. In the state of Louisiana in 1868, the foodie and tireless experimenter Edmund McIslenny managed to fulfill his old dream and find the perfect flavor combination, which was called tobasco sauce. Subsequently, a new gastronomic invention allowed Mr. McIslenny to organize his own company, McIlhenny, to produce Tobasco sauce.

Tabasco sauce composition

The Tabasco sauce contains simple, at first glance, ingredients that, when combined with each other, give an unrivalled taste and aroma of the product. For the manufacture of Tobasco sauce, only one type of red hot pepper is used. Cayenne pepper or tobasco pepper combined with white vinegar and salt form the basis of the composition of tobasco sauce.

In order for the Tobasco sauce, which is made from the flesh of hot red pepper, to acquire its distinctive savoury and at the same time sour-sweet taste, the product after manufacture must be aged for at least three years in special barrels, which are made of white oak wood. To make the world famous Tobasco sauce, you need to make mashed cayenne pepper with a special type of salt, which is placed for the fermentation process in barrels.

After a three-year period, the Tobasco sauce is seasoned with vinegar and packaged in distinctive glass bottles. It is noteworthy that the original recipe for Tabasco McIslenny uses salt, which is mined from the mines of the US state of Louisiana on Avery Island. Tobasco sauce got its original name thanks to the creator's addiction to sonorous words. Translated from the Indian language, the word Tobasco means "country of wet land. "

Tobasco sauce is made from peppers, the quality of which is constantly monitored by McIlhenny. The fact is that only high-quality ingredients will give the combination of taste and aroma necessary for Tobasco. The interesting thing is that the pepper for Tobasco is harvested only by hand. Currently, there are a great many varieties of hot red hot pepper sauces. However, Tobasco sauce firmly holds the palm.

In terms of their taste (sharpness) and consumer qualities, only 1/4 teaspoon of sauce corresponds to:



1 tsp any other hot sauce;

0. 5 tsp black pepper;

0. 5 tsp white pepper;



Tobasco sauce is distinguished by its rich spicy taste and aroma, so just a drop of the product is enough to completely change the taste of your dishes. Tobasco sauce is added to first courses, salads and snacks. Based on tobasco, marinades and spicy sauces are made for meat and fish dishes. It is impossible to make the famous Bloody Mary cocktail without the burning tobasco sauce.

To appreciate the importance and popularity of tobasco sauce, it is enough to take into account one interesting fact. Only Tobasco sauce is included in the diet of American astronauts. We can say that the popularity of Tobasco sauce has spread far beyond the limits of planet Earth.