« « Previous | How To Make Buffalo Wings: A Step by Step Guide » »
BRANDON, Fla. (AP) — It can be difficult to add a little spice to your life when you’re in jail. But inmates at the Hillsborough County jail are trying.
The inmates had been growing hot peppers as part of a horticulture program at the jail for about a year when one of them suggested making them into a commercial sauce.
Allen Boatman, the horticulture program’s director, agreed and residents of the Falkenburg Road Jail in Brandon are now the proud makers of Jailhouse Fire hot sauce.
“The food here is kind of institutionalized, so it helps,” Boatman said.
Boatman and his students spent two years perfecting the recipe, a hybrid of a Caribbean-style hot sauce and a mustard sauce that includes habaneros, scotch bonnets and jalapenos. A 5-ounce bottle sells for $3.25. The revenue goes back to the inmate canteen fund and to culinary and horticulture programs for inmates.
Inmates say they prefer their own version of Jailhouse Fire, which is considerably hotter than what they sell for mass consumption.
“It’s a macho thing,” Boatman said. “You know, ‘I can eat the hottest pepper.’”
Chilehead Comments: 8 Comments
Posted by: Nick Lindauer - Categories: Uncategorized
Permalink: Florida inmates create, sell own hot sauce
- Related Posts:
- Review: Jailhouse Fire Hot Sauce
- Hillsborough Jail Inmates Pick Peppers For Hot Sauce
- Tijuana Flats signs 24-store franchise agreement
- Create A Pepper
- Neglect charges dropped over hot sauce highball
8 Comments
How can I purchase the “jailhouse fire” hot sauce?
Is there a web site to order the product from?
Thanks, JM
Try:
http://www.katoproductions.com
Specifically:
Link.
Link
This is what you are looking for. Enjoy
I have a unique sauce I’m interested in manufacturing, does anyone know a good way I can go about doing this??
I am really honored that you all would post our product on this fine blog/forum. My name is Allen and I am the creator of what is known as Jailhouse Fire, and the Vocational Horticulture Instructor at Falkenburg Road Jail. The sauce has been reformulated, and for the better. It now has xanthum gum in it to keep it from separating, it is thicker, has a ton less vinegar and when we tested it, it tasted true to the original recipe with half the salt. The pH worked out better for us this time, though last batch was acceptable too. We also have a new label for it and some commercials and stuff thanks to Piper, Paul, and Kenney, an ad firm in Tampa who took us on ‘pro bono’ this year. All really great news for our product. The next batch should be available through JailhouseFire.org in mid-December. We have received a fantastic outpouring of support from both the local public, the international media. The sauce has more demand than we could ever ask for; there are two distributors lined up to take on the line, but, since we can’t keep up with demand, as it is, we have decided to remail loyal to our local following and also sell this stuff in single bottles on our website. The price will be around 5 bucks. All proceedes from the sauce sales are rolled back into the program and used to pay for sauce production costs. We are purely non-profit. Thanks again for the positive play here, ya’ll. The whole sauce thing has been a ton of fun, which in itself is priceless seeing as the business is first and foremost teaching inmates.
Allen
Glad to see you here as well Chance!! This isn’t as scientific as the Rogues, but it *certainly* is lively 
Jim Campbell- StepUpForCharity.org on 11/22/2006 at 1:59 pm said:
Glad to see you here as well Chance!! This isn’t as scientific as the Rogues, but it *certainly* is lively
Well I am not a member of the forum and only saw the comment doing a search on google, but thanks for the great sentiments, Jim!
To the rest of you all, Mild to Wild and Jim Campbell personally and as a company have helped us a great deal. Both with advise and other stuff. Jim, you are appreciated and regarded highly, by myself, my boss, and my class.
Heat to ya’ll and Happy Thanksgiving,
Allen/Chance
RSS feed for comments on this post.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Good thoughts on trimmin your own dadgum wings. Comeon people, it doesn’t take a lot of effort and it’s more ecomomical. Grocery stores are putting wings, thighs and drumsticks on sale, sometimes buy one get one. Buy them babies up and git to marinatin. Put the rest in the freezer for another meal.