How Sriracha is made

[EliteRetard]

You'd think they cut off the stems? I kinda think they do.

Only bit I kinda wondered about too...I've tried blending peppers with the stems, it's pretty nasty. You get a bitter grassy taste that's not good.

LOL at the pathetic splash washing in dirty water. Spread it around so they all look the same!

If you want a HOT sauce go get some chipotle peppers (smoked jalapeno?). Blend that into a paste and it will put sriracha down. Delicious smokey flavor and enough heat to make your head sweat.

Franks is mild, sriracha is medium, chipotle is hot, and extreme sauce...well I prefer to taste my food (unless I'm just eating chips or something, then sometimes I'll use death sauce). I just made some slow cooked chili with my chipotle "sauce" and it's got a fantastic flavor and plenty of heat.

 

[Cappuccino]

Sriracha + Dumplings = <3

 

[EliteRetard]

Inside gyoza, yummy.

 

[Cappuccino]

Inside gyoza, yummy.

YUM!

 

[EliteRetard]

YUM!

Ever made your own?

 

[RadiclDreamer]

I like it on chicken quesadillas...mmmm

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Only bit I kinda wondered about too...I've tried blending peppers with the stems, it's pretty nasty. You get a bitter grassy taste that's not good.

LOL at the pathetic splash washing in dirty water. Spread it around so they all look the same!

If you want a HOT sauce go get some chipotle peppers (smoked jalapeno?). Blend that into a paste and it will put sriracha down. Delicious smokey flavor and enough heat to make your head sweat.

Franks is mild, sriracha is medium, chipotle is hot, and extreme sauce...well I prefer to taste my food (unless I'm just eating chips or something, then sometimes I'll use death sauce). I just made some slow cooked chili with my chipotle "sauce" and it's got a fantastic flavor and plenty of heat.

Franks is tomato sauce masqarading as a hot sauce

 

[Fanatical Meat]

The water they cleaned the peppers with looks very dirty

I've seen this before for other foods, there are multiply washes. One to remove dirt and cow poop, anther to get the more stuck on poop off and another spray to clean it.

 

[yuchai]

Agreed. Southeast Asian food might be all about hot sauce, but it really angers me when people start spraying Sriracha all over their dim sum, Taiwanese small plates, Chinese dishes. You'll never find Sriracha in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea. They just don't use it.

It's not uncommon to add some spice when eating dim sum. Sriracha is not the best for that purpose anyway, since I think it's a bit too sweet.

Chili oil is more commonly used with Chinese food, including dim sum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili_oil

 

[Leros]

The water they cleaned the peppers with looks very dirty

There are probably multiple stages of washing.

 

[Muse]

perhaps. But capsiacin vapors, in large quantities, are no joke.

Exactly. It was a big story a few months ago, IIRC. People's lives being severely impacted by the fumes emanating from a sriracha plant, I believe in California.

I have always had sriracha sauce on hand since around 1990, don't know exactly when. I have tried several brands, including the one in the video I suppose, but the one I always come back to can't be beat, at least in my experience: Shark Brand, it's made in Thailand, and according to the label it has no squirrelly ingredients. Just:

Chili 35%
Water 25%
Sugar 20%
Garlic 10%
Salt 5%
Vinegar 5%

I tried making my own in a blender. I adapted a bottle of sriracha I got from another manufacturer that was inferior, and I'm working on that now, but in the future I'm just going to buy Shark.

 

[Cappuccino]

Ever made your own?

Nope. Have you? I been to Hong Kong couple of times and always eat dim sum and gyoza (same thing) and it's dirt cheap. I live in the UK and all the ingredients are shit. It's just not the same.

 

[evident]

I know that my mom started sending some bottles over to Vietnam since there is a demand over there and they don't have it.

I grew up with it as a kid and there was always a bottle at my house or when eating out. It was never spicy, just added a slightly different flavor to a dish. Mostly use it in pho. It became a hip thing all of a sudden out of no where.

When I want spicy I just take one of these and take bites as I eat.

really? i've had some chili sauces in vietnam that taste way better or spicier than the sriracha sauce ( not knocking it at all though).

 

[QueBert]

Sriracha's the Pabst Blue Ribbon of hot sauces. It use to be ghetto but somehow both are now viewed as top tier products. I wonder what will be next, Spam probably. I could just see people eating Spam with Siracha on it while drinking a PBR. There's a reason it comes in big ass quart beer like sized bottles. Good hot sauces never come in bottles that big.

 

[sdifox]

Ever made your own?

Yes, I have made dumplings. But now I am too lazy. I can buy 2lbs of decent frozen dumpling for like 5 bux. They are hand made too, just not my hands.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Good hot sauces never come in bottles that big.

Why? Because chili peppers are so hard to grow, or have such low yields? Or it is because the sauce is so difficult to make? Maybe it is because it goes bad so quickly?

Oh wait, none of those are true. It seems that the amount and price of your small bottle hot sauces might be artificially inflated.

 

[Ns1]

Yes, I have made dumplings. But now I am too lazy. I can buy 2lbs of decent frozen dumpling for like 5 bux. They are hand made too, just not my hands.

yep. I COULD make dumplings at home...or I can buy 50 at a time for 12 bucks. Advantages of living in an asian area rite?

 

[sdifox]

yep. I COULD make dumplings at home...or I can buy 50 at a time for 12 bucks. Advantages of living in an asian area rite?

I do prefer the ones we make, but I don't have the freezer space to freeze them first then bag them, so I settle with other people's dumplings.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

really? i've had some chili sauces in vietnam that taste way better or spicier than the sriracha sauce ( not knocking it at all though).

Probably but you know how the world is, everyone wants American stuff as a status thing.

 

[Cappuccino]

 

[QueBert]

Why? Because chili peppers are so hard to grow, or have such low yields? Or it is because the sauce is so difficult to make? Maybe it is because it goes bad so quickly?

Oh wait, none of those are true. It seems that the amount and price of your small bottle hot sauces might be artificially inflated.

I don't know specifics, but I know low quality shit is usually available in big ass bottles and the good shit almost never is. Look at beer, you can get a 40oz of Bud Lite. You won't see a 40oz of a good beer. My guess is Hot sauce is a condiment not a main fucking ingredient. I know people use Siracha like it's going out of style though. A good sauce you only need a few shakes. My Roomie probably goes thru a bottle of Siracha in 2 weeks. If he used the sauces I do, his hot sauce application method would end up emptying an entire bottle a day.

Your chili peppers and difficult to make are kind of off, I mean look at beer. It doesn't cost 4x as much to make Arrogant Bastard as it does Miller, but it sure as shit cost 4x as much. And it's probably no more difficult to make. Some people will pay more for what they perceive as higher quality products.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Sriracha's the Pabst Blue Ribbon of hot sauces. It use to be ghetto but somehow both are now viewed as top tier products. I wonder what will be next, Spam probably. I could just see people eating Spam with Siracha on it while drinking a PBR. There's a reason it comes in big ass quart beer like sized bottles. Good hot sauces never come in bottles that big.

I dont quite put it down that low. Its not my favorite, but there are certain things I like it on. Same goes for most hot sauces really.

I like Texas Pete and tobasco in my chili, El yucateco on enchilads, Sriracha on quesadilla, etc etc. Its all about pairing the right sauce with the right food for me.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Sriracha is one of those things that I think about often as I'm eating, but almost never remember to pick up from the grocery store. It's probably been 7-10 years since I've had any.

 

[sdifox]

Sriracha is one of those things that I think about often as I'm eating, but almost never remember to pick up from the grocery store. It's probably been 7-10 years since I've had any.

amazon has it

 

[evident]

Probably but you know how the world is, everyone wants American stuff as a status thing.

Totally. When I went to Vietnam last year, I stopped in Hoi An for a few days and picked some delicious hot sauce. It was so good that I had my cousin who was still working over there ship home about 10 bottles for me. It was called Trieu Phat. Good lord, it's so delicious in a bowl of Pho. Very spicy too. Its way more garlicky than any chili sauce i've had in the states. It changed my life forever. I may need to get some relatives to mail me more when i run out or something. I dont know how I can cope when it runs out!