Sriracha

Huy Fong FoodsJune 2022
Huy Fong Foods announced that they would be pausing production of Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce, due to a severe shortage of chili peppers.

Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce

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Ants on a Bacon Log

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Sriracha is our most popular sauce. Created from sun ripened chilies pureed into a smooth paste. We have captured its flavor in a convenient squeeze bottle that is easy to use

https://www.huyfong.com/

Huy Fong's Sriracha Sauce

WikipediaSriracha
The green cap and rooster logo are trademarked, but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office considers "sriracha" a generic term,

• Originated in Thailand
• Croduced by Huy Fong Foods in California
• Created in 1980 by David Tran, a Chinese immigrant from Vietnam
• The logo refers to the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese zodiac as David Tran was born in 1945

David Tran began making chili sauces in 1975 in his native Vietnam, where his brother grew chili peppers on a farm north of Saigon. In 1978, the new Communist Vietnamese government began to crack down on ethnic Chinese in south Vietnam. Tran and three thousand other refugees crowded onto the Taiwanese freighter Huey Fong, heading for Hong Kong. After a month-long standoff with the British authorities, its passengers disembarked on January 19, 1979.

He was granted asylum in the United States. He started Huy Fong Foods in 1980, naming the company after the refugee ship that brought him out of Vietnam. The sauce was initially supplied to Asian restaurants near his base in Chinatown, Los Angeles, but sales grew steadily by word of mouth.

In December 2009, Bon Appetit magazine named the sauce Ingredient of the Year for 2010.

In 2012, over 20 million bottles were sold. Huy Fong Foods says demand has outpaced supply since the company started making the sauce. The company does not advertise because advertising would widen that gap. Huy Fong has boosted production since 2013.

Sriracha sauce has grown from a cult taste to one of the food industry's most popular condiments. It infuses burgers, sushi, snacks, candy, beverages, and even health products. Tran said he was dissuaded from securing a trademark on the word sriracha since it is difficult to obtain one named after a real-life location. This has allowed others to develop their own versions, using the name. Some of the biggest corporations in the business, such as Heinz, Starbucks, Frito-Lay, Applebee's, P.F. Chang's, Pizza Hut, Subway, and Jack in the Box use the name without licensing it.

Recipe
The bottle lists the ingredients as: "chili, sugar, salt, garlic, distilled vinegar, potassium sorbate, sodium bisulfite and xanthan gum". Huy Fong Foods' chili sauces are made from fresh, red, jalapeño chili peppers and contain no added water or artificial colors. Garlic powder is used rather than fresh garlic. The company formerly used serrano chilis, but found them difficult to harvest. To keep the sauce hot, the company produces only up to a monthly pre-sold quota in order to use only peppers from known sources. The sauce is certified as kosher.

WikipediaScoville
Huy Fong Foods' sriracha sauce ranks in the 1,000–2,500 heat units range, above banana pepper and below Jalapeño pepper, on the Scoville scale.

California Grown
About 690 hectares (1,700 acres) of farmland that spreads from Ventura County to Kern County in California. In order to make sriracha, the chili peppers are planted in March.

WikipediaColor
Because they don't add food coloring to the sauce, each bottle varies in color. At the beginning of the harvest season, the chilis are greener and therefore, the sauce yields a more muted-red color. Later in the season, the sauce produced is bright red.

WikipediaVegetarian
In contrast to similar hot sauces made by other manufacturers, Huy Fong's sriracha sauce does not contain fish extract, making it suitable for most vegetarians, although the presence of garlic may make it unsuitable for members of Buddhism and some Hindu denominations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha_sauce_(Huy_Fong_Foods)

There is a Sriracha Documentary at tubi
[ https://tubitv.com/movies/490088/sriracha ]