Thanks for your help! Doing a 100% chilli jam is a good idea. I was thinking about candied chillis too. I don't get around to eating hot sauces when they're too vinegar heavy and was thinking maybe preserving them in mainly sugar might help make them be useful down the line. That or do sriracha as that's the main hot sauce I eat.
I air dried the first lot of ripe chillis in the heatwaves but I've been debating getting a dehydrator, it would be useful for lots of things.