Posted on 03/17/2021 6:12:37 AM PDT by mylife
A Minnesota farmer whose crop was badly damaged by a hail storm ended up having the harvest rescued by a company that turned the damaged peppers into a special hot sauce.
Dana Jokela, owner of Sogn Farm in Cannon Falls, said the pepper crop was destroyed by a hail storm right before the planned harvest, and it looked like a total loss.
Jokela said one of the farm's clients, Cry Baby Craig's Hot Sauce, offered to step in and rescue the damaged fruits.
"They all took whatever peppers could be used, a lot of scratch and dent," Jokela told KCCO-TV.
The company turned the damaged peppers into a hot sauce aptly called Hail Fire. The company's owners said all profits from the sauce is going directly to the farm.
"Yes, it is a nice gesture, but I wasn't looking at that. I was looking at the pain those families are dealing with, knowing that you woke up one morning and lost everything and you may not have another season to grow," founder Craig Kaiser said.
Kaiser said the sauce is selling well and the farm can expect to receive up to $40,000.
Hail Fire is on sale now at Lund's stores.
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...or that some of the flaming ***holes are just good people that like hot sauce
just went to there natural color, still woulda been kickin’ on chicken!
Not a tobasco fan.
Apparently the hail storm happened seven months ago. Hot sauce is coming out now, so the feature story.
Dehydrated cantaloupe is very tasty, and stays good for years.
Makes more sense than peppers in Minnysota in Mar.
Still, a nice gesture.
Really?
Yep. Slice the melon about a quarter-inch thick and dry it in your dehydrator (I have an old 5-tray Excalibur) until it’s well-dried but not brittle. After it cools, put the pieces in Zip-loc bags and store them in a dark place. Dried cantaloupe will keep for years, but I usually eat it all before then.
This is good for other melons, too, such as honeydew or Crenshaw. I imagine that watermelon would work, but I haven’t tried that yet.
I guess if it works with juicy mangos, why not?
This happens all the time in the ag. business. When apples are damaged by hail, they’re turned into apple sauce. When oranges are hit with a cold snap, they turn them into orange juice.
If there hadn’t been hail, non-perfect peppers would have been sorted out and made into hot sauce or otherwise canned.
I just started a couple of Tabasco pepper plants. We’ll see what happens.
This happened last fall.
The story is from August 2020. Probably a press release as the fermented sauce comes to market.
In small small print the insurance paper says no hail damage coverage.
Homosexuals with sex induced injuries?
Got ahold (accidentally) of some of that stuff once & if the owner of that establishment wasn’t such a nice guy & likely unaware of the incident, I think I would have sued the place. My mouth burnt so bad I didn’t know if it would ever heal. It was put in something without telling me.
Not a tobasco fan.
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I put that sh*t on everything, especially eggs. Fried, scrambled, omelets. I keep three bottles in my desk at all times.
It’s nice to know that the world is not completely full of flaming ***holes.
Ironically, that may be a result of consumption of the sauce.👹
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