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kleinbl00  ·  3391 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Grubski Challenge #8: THREE IS A MAGIC NUMBER

    Ingredients must be listed by their common name in descending order by predominance of weight or volume. This includes items such as preservatives, colors and flavors.

http://fapc.biz/files/factsheets/fapc140.pdf

Read a little deeper on that: it appears that you get to choose whether you do it by weight or by volume. Now ask yourself:

"Self, if they're listing dried peppers ahead of vinegar and they're listing by weight or volume, that's kind of a fuckload of peppers, eh what?"

Not to mention the fact that if you're using less than 2% you get to say "less than 2% of a bunch of shit" and they've not only got "spices" listed ahead of the thickener, they've got "salt" listed ahead of the vinegar.

Put another way: there's more water than peppers, more peppers than salt and more salt than vinegar in Cholula. Tabasco?

(I just can't allow you to malign Cholula in this way; I buy it over Tapatio for precisely the reason that it doesn't taste like vinegar)





mk  ·  3391 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Alright. Maybe Tabasco is the right move then for this recipe? Heck, I'll try an egg with each and report back.