Most of the hot sauce bottles available have plastic lids and couldn't
handle a BWB. I've made hot sauce for years with nothing but the chiles
and vinegar and never had a bottle go bad. No bwb, no canning at all.
The vinegar is usually sufficient to keep the bad bugs out if the chiles
don't. YMMV

I buy 5 or 6 cases of them every couple of years because most people
don't think to return them for reuse.

George

Anny Middon wrote:
Looking over my collection of hot sauces, it occured to me it would be fun
to make some superhot stuff from garden peppers and can it to give to
friends (warning them first ofcourse even if they know me well enough to
expect something incendiary).

Is it possible to find bottles for HWB canning? A lot of commercially
available hot sauces are produced by Mom & Pop outfits. Do they have
special equipment?

BTW, something about the term "canning" when I'm referring to small bottles
(hot sauces come in bottles that have a capacity of about 6 ounces) doesn't
seem right.

Anny