I found this article on hot sauce and bacteria (and fire ants) on Chef Emeril Lagasse's web page. It was pretty interesting. I guess I'll have to eat more hot sauce (like that would have been a problem). The url is http://www.emerils.com/cooking/nov2000/kills_bacteria.htm. Hope you find it as entertaining and useful as I did. Michael ps: Emeril sells his own brand of hot sauce on his website now. Has anybody tried it yet? Michael C. Fortner n0ybc@prodigy.net http://pages.prodigy.net/n0ybc "Sometimes, you just have to--Hey, stop quoting me!" -- Anonymous