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How Ketchup Got Thick

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How to Make Asian Fish Sauce

Asian fish sauces typically use more salt and ferment the sauce for longer in tanks that are closed, rather than open to the air. Kong uses five pounds of local black anchovies to make one bottle of red boat fish sauce. The second thing that's different is that the fish are salted immediately when the fishermen catch them. He says it took him four years to get the fiss right.

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