DIY hot sauce reaching the top of hacker news. Are we really that predictable? http://catb.org/jargon/html/food.html
Fermentation of hot peppers, photography, homemade shawarma, woodworking, burn barrels, how to roll cords without tangling, bitters with soda when too full. All of those I looked up in the last month for one reason or another. And on some I improved but there is no organized way to give back the knowledge.
Can you expand upon this? How does mixing bitters with soda help with being too full?
Fermented chili sauce is probably the highest ROI home fermentation projects and easy enough that anybody can do it, so if you've got access to interesting peppers, take a whack at it. It's a really good way to use peppers that are too hot to eat on their own, since it's much easier to control the dosing in a dish as a sauce.
Once you get going it's very easy to always make your own bread, and it be lot better & cheaper (a sliding scale between them depending what you bought, but almost certainly both to some extent regardless) than what you bought before.
Beer is trickier than hot sauce for sure, but more differentiable, versatile, and satisfying (if you drink beer) perhaps to make up for it on an RoI basis? Certainly worth trying if you like this sort of thing anyway, I think.
Yoghurt is even easier than hot sauce, more versatile, though not really as interesting or variable. Such low investment though (milk, few chickpeas or chilli crowns) that if you use it at all it would be hard for it not to do very well on RoI basis.
I know, this is HN, so a dozen people are gonna say "Well, -I'VE- like hot sauce since insert year." I get it. You're badass.
But this is just the latest trend. Which I enjoy. Sriracha is sugary syrup in my opinion, and lousiana style is just blah ... the Hot Sauce craze has led to some really tasty alternatives. See: Torchbearer.
But when the trend finally fades, we'll all go back to enjoying Sambal Oelek, the OG hotsauce.
I know this is the internet, and it's traditional to invent people to be mad at, but in this case the person you're mad at is .... someone who has liked hot sauce since before Hot Ones?
Of course that doesn't mean it can't be or isn't a current craze, but it's hardly been a niche interest since.. idk, some time not too long after Portuguese colonialism brought chillies out of South America ca. 16th-18th C.s?
Hot sauce is about as faddish as corn and tomatoes.
Seriously, do they not have curries where you live?
Yo bartender, I’ll have what he’s having.
Others: quantified self/self-tracking; fermentation