Tabasco where is it made

He manages the making of the sauces, new product development and sustainability efforts. Where Bold Flavours Mature. A Family Tradition. International expansion begins as Walter Stauffer McIlhenny takes the helm and expands sales to over countries. They're all harvested by hand using an incredibly high tech-tool: a stick painted a specific shade of red so pickers can match it against the color of the pepper and determine whether it's ripe enough.

Once the peppers are picked, they're sent back to Tabasco headquarters. Back in Louisiana, the pepper mash is packed into reused white oak barrels with salt mined from underneath Avery Island and put in another warehouse to age for three years. At this point there's only two ingredients in this process, the third and final ingredient, vinegar, is added to the pepper mash in sauce mixing tanks. I was lucky enough to get a special, hair net-required tour of this part of the building even though I was overcome by coughing due to the vapors let off by the peppers and vinegar blending together in the oak thanks.

Next it's bottled into tiny versions as small as 3. I watched the standard 5 oz. So Edmund McIlhenny decided to create a pepper sauce to give the food some flavor and excitement. A food lover and avid gardener, Edmund McIlhenny was given seeds of Capsicum frutescens peppers that had come from Mexico or Central America. On Avery Island in South Louisiana, he sowed the seeds, nurtured the plants and delighted in the spicy flavor of the peppers they bore. McIlhenny grew his first commercial pepper crop in The next year, he sent out bottles of sauce at one dollar apiece wholesale to grocers around the Gulf Coast, particularly in New Orleans.

Edmund McIlhenny founded the company in Harold Osborn: We're celebrating our th birthday this year. Tabasco starts here in the fields and it's a five-year process from the beginning to the end. The peppers that are being made here right now are growing here, will be Tabasco sauce on your table in five years.

Text on screen: The pepper seeds are made on Avery Island. The farmers wait for the peppers to ripen. It then ages in these barrels for three years. Each barrel yields around 10, bottles of Tabasco sauce.