Hot sauce is good stuff there is not doubt about that but aside from spicing up our food, and using it as a pain killer it has some other more surprising uses. Here are just a couple.
Capsaicin is the stuff that makes hot sauce hot and it can be extracted from peppers. This is the stuff they put in pepper spray and the stuff that they use to do medical experiments. They can also add it to paint that is used to paint the bottoms of ships. Seems strange? Well consider that large ships can pick up thousands of pounds worth of barnacles which not only weigh tons but also severely reduce the ships aerodynamics under the water, or would that be water dynamics. I don’t know,the point I am making is that barnacles cost shipping companies millions in additional fuel cost. Hot sauce laced paint can virtually eliminate the barnacle problem. I would not suggest tasting the paint or even licking the paint, just take my word for it.
You probably won’t find that all that useful around the house but this one you may. Like birds, hate it when squirrels eat your bird seed? Well here you go. Squirrels don’t like hot sauce but bird do. Add some capsaicin to your bird seed and spice it up for the squirrels, it doesn’t take them long to know that there are greener pastures out there and the extra vitamin A in the capsaicin actually helps the bird with their plumage. I would say you kill two bird with one stone, but that doesn’t sound right in this context.
Another good home use is to use cayenne powder to control pests such as ants or slugs. Bugs don’t like hot sauce, but it won’t kill them so if you are the type that thinks it is inhumane to kill bugs this could be a good green solution. This can also be used in situations where rodents can be a problem. Hot sauce will keep them out of certain areas or from chewing on wires.
These are just a few uses for hot sauce there are many more and they happen to be some of the most environmentally friendly and humane way to control many problems. Have a good time experimenting with hot sauce on your food or under your house.